On Valentine's Day, 1862 [3] or 1865, [4] she received an anonymous note from John Wilkes Booth, a wildly popular stage actor and notorious ladies man, in which he wrote: My dear Miss Hale, were it …

Mar 8, 2019 · The stranger, it turns out, was none other than actor and, later, Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth. Both Hale and Booth lived at the National Hotel in Washington, D.C., and over the …

Lucy Lambert Hale of Dover, NH, legend says, was secretly engaged to actor John Wilkes Booth when he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865. Both had been …

Feb 14, 2014 · Lucy Lambert Hale and John Wilkes Booth went from flirting to courting to betrothed over the next three years. Some evidence shows that Lucy’s father disapproved of Booth because of his …

A Washington, D.C., socialite, Miss Hale was romantically linked to several prominent men, including actor John Wilkes Booth, who carried a photograph of her in his pocket when he assassinated …

Oct 28, 2025 · Following the assassination of President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth would be shot dead by one of the soldiers that found him. [3] Among the contents of his pockets, the soldiers would find a …

Oct 28, 2023 · It’s a scene worthy of a theater owner and a pair of star-crossed lovers like John Wilkes Booth and Lucy Hale, but this account is likely just as fictitious as Romeo and Juliet.

Lucy met John Wilkes Booth at one of his performances in Washington, D.C., when he played the character Charles De Moor in “The Robbers” (1862 or 1863). She presented him with a bouquet.

Jun 1, 2020 · Many detailed histories of the events leading up to the assassination of Lincoln state that Lucy Hale and John Wilkes Booth were seen in conversation at the National Hotel at the same time …

In 1862, Lucy Lambert Hale began a romantic relationship with famous stage actor John Wilkes Booth. Another of her admirers was Robert Todd Lincoln, eldest son of President Abraham Lincoln.