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Aspiring to follow in the footsteps of his father and his actor brothers, Edwin and Junius Brutus, Jr., Booth began practicing elocution daily in the woods around Tudor Hall and studying Shakespeare.
John Wilkes Booth ( left ), Edwin Booth and Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. in Shakespeare ’ s Julius Caesar in 1864.
* 1864: Junius, Jr., Edwin and John Wilkes Booth ( later the assassin of U. S. president Abraham Lincoln ) made their only appearance onstage together in a benefit performance of Julius Caesar on 25 November 1864, at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City.
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Nora Titone, in her book My Thoughts Be Bloody, recounts how the shame and ambition of Junius Brutus Booth's three illegitimate actor sons, Junius Brutus Booth Jr. ( who never achieved the stage stardom of his two younger actor brothers ) Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, spurred them to strive, as rivals, for achievement and acclaim — Edwin, a Unionist, and John Wilkes, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
Before his brother assassinated Lincoln, Edwin had appeared with his two brothers, John Wilkes and Junius Brutus Booth Jr., in Julius Caesar in 1864.
He was the father of John Wilkes Booth ( actor and the assassin of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln ), Edwin Booth ( the foremost tragedian of the mid-to-late 19th century ), and Junius Brutus Booth, Jr., an actor and theatre manager.
L-to-r: Booth's sons, John, Edwin and Junius Jr. in Julius Caesar ( play ) | Julius Caesar
In 1852, he was involved in a tour of California with his sons Edwin and Junius Brutus Booth, Jr., performing in San Francisco and Sacramento.
She was so angry with Junius Jr. and Edwin for, in her view, abandoning their father that she informed them not to " come home.
Booth played the role for a famous 100 consecutive performances at the Winter Garden Theatre in 1865 ( with the run ending just a few months before Booth's brother John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln ), and would later revive the role at his own Booth's Theatre ( which was managed for a time by his brother Junius Brutus Booth, Jr .).
In 1960, Atlanta Mayor William B. Hartsfield accepted the donation of a recorded narration written by Junius Andrew Park, Jr., in honor of his father, Junius Andrew Park, Sr., who was born and raised in Atlanta.
Under his administration, South Carolina executed the youngest person in the United States in the 20th Century, the fourteen-year old African American, George Junius Stinney Jr. Stinney was convicted of murdering two young girls after police claimed he confessed to the murders, despite questions regarding the validity of the officers ' testimony and his alleged confession.
In 1867, she was married to Junius Brutus Booth, Jr., its manager.

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On 15 March 44 BC, Octavius's adoptive father Julius Caesar was assassinated by a conspiracy led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus.
With financial support from Emerson, Alcott left Concord on May 8, 1842, to a visit to England, leaving his brother Junius with his family.
In the months leading up to her marriage to Claudius, Agrippina's maternal second cousin, the praetor Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus, was betrothed to Claudius ’ daughter Claudia Octavia.
Towards the end of 54, Agrippina would order the murder of Silanus ' eldest brother Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus without Nero's knowledge, so that he would not seek revenge against her over his brother's death.
** Marcus Junius Silanus potential rival to Nero poisoned.
* 43 BC – Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is wounded.
Representations of angels on sarcophagi and on objects such as lamps and reliquaries of that period also show them without wings, as for example the angel in the Sacrifice of Isaac scene in the Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus.
After seemingly destroying all his enemies and bringing peace to Rome he was assassinated by friends in a conspiracy organized by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus.
The famous Drudenhaus ( witch prison ), built in 1627, is no longer standing today ; however, detailed accounts of some cases, such as that of Johannes Junius, remain.
Here he followed the precedent of Lucius Junius Brutus and Julius Caesar.
In 109 BC, they defeated a Roman army under the consul Marcus Junius Silanus, who was the commander of Gallia Narbonensis.
He had his father-in-law Marcus Junius Silanus and his brother-in-law Marcus Lepidus executed as well.
The painting depicts Lucius Junius Brutus, the Roman leader, grieving for his sons.
From around 1810 to 1840, the best-known Shakespearean performances in the United States were tours by leading London actors — including George Frederick Cooke, Junius Brutus Booth, Edmund Kean, William Charles Macready, and Charles Kemble.
A 1568 history by Hadrianus Junius of Holland claims that the basic idea of the movable type came to Gutenberg from Laurens Janszoon Coster via Fust, who was apprenticed to Coster in the 1430s and may have brought some of his equipment from Haarlem to Mainz.
Booth's parents, the noted British Shakespearean actor Junius Brutus Booth and his mistress Mary Ann Holmes, came to the United States from England in June 1821.
Junius Brutus Booth's wife, Adelaide Delannoy Booth, was granted a divorce in 1851 on grounds of adultery, and Holmes legally wed John Wilkes Booth's father on May 10, 1851, the youth's 13th birthday.
Nora Titone, in her book My Thoughts Be Bloody, recounts how the shame and ambition of Junius Brutus Booth's two illegitimate actor sons, Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, would eventually spur them to strive, as rivals, for achievement and acclaim — Edwin, a Unionist, and John Wilkes, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
On November 25, 1864, Booth performed for the only time with his two brothers, Edwin and Junius, in a single engagement production of Julius Caesar at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York.
But the underlying political conflicts had not been resolved, and on the Ides of March ( 15 March ) 44 BC, Caesar was assassinated by a group of senators led by Marcus Junius Brutus.
Caesar also wrote that if Octavian died before Caesar did, Marcus Junius Brutus would be the next heir in succession.
Justin was tried together with six companions by Junius Rusticus who was urban prefect from 163-167, and was beheaded, probably in 165.
In 138 BC, the Roman general Decimus Junius Brutus sought to dispose of the myth, as it impeded his military campaigns in the area.
This outrage inspired an uprising led by the aristocrat Lucius Junius Brutus, which resulted in the expulsion of Tarquin and his family from Rome.

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John Wilkes played Marc Antony, Edwin played Brutus, and Junius played Cassius.
From Kean's time forward, many actors who have played the role — with the notable exception of Edwin Booth, who played him as a simple villain — have chosen a sympathetic approach to the character ; even Booth's father, Junius Brutus Booth, played the role sympathetically.
Hoyt appeared in one Shakespearean film, MGM's Julius Caesar, reprising the role of Decius Brutus ( a. k. a. Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus ), which he had played in the 1937 Mercury Theatre production.

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