** Ed Spangler, a Ford's theater stagehand, opened a rear door as Booth rushed out to a horse being held for him by Joseph Burroughs (better known as "Peanuts") ...
Burroughs testified that in January, Edman Spangler had fitted up a small stables for John Wilkes Booth in the alley behind Ford's Theatre. Inside the stables ...
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That door led out to an alleyway, where his horse was being held by a young theatre worker named Joseph “Peanuts John” Burroughs. Booth mounted his horse ...
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Booth fled Ford's Theatre by a stage door to the alley, where his getaway horse was held for him by Joseph "Peanuts" Burroughs. The owner of the horse ...
Spangler gave the duty to Joseph “Peanut John” Burroughs, an African American youngster and another Ford's Theatre employee. ... John Wilkes Booth, son of Junius ...
When the plot turned to assassination, Booth assigned Atzerodt the job of assassinating Vice President Johnson. On April 14th the would-be assassin checked in ...
