Samuel Byck was born in Philadelphia in 1930. A high school dropout, Byck married, had four children and embarked on a series of unsuccessful careers ranging from the U.S. Army to tire sales…
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Lee Harvey Oswald was born in New Orleans in 1939. Raised by a widowed mother, Oswald grew disaffected with American life and by his teens considered himself a socialist…
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Fight for These Truths
On February 19, 1942, ten weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 and thereby granted Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson the authority to designate military zones…
Sara Jane Moore conducted another attempt on Ford’s life three weeks later in San Francisco. Born in Charleston, West Virginia to two classical violinists in 1930…
Giuseppe Zangara was born in Calabria, Italy in 1900. Following his mother’s death, his father emigrated with the family to Philadelphia. Zangara suffered from a mysterious stomach malady which caused…
Lynette Alice “Squeaky” Fromme was born in Santa Monica, California in 1948. The daughter of a homemaker and aeronautical engineer, Fromme enjoyed early success…
We are pleased to welcome three actors making their PlayMakers debuts in Assassins. Danny Binstock takes on the role of the John Wilkes Booth, the matinee idol who became famous for the role…
Leon Czolgosz was born Detroit to Polish immigrants in 1873. Raised in Cleveland, he held a succession of menial jobs, including grueling employment at a bottle factory, before committing himself…
As an alumnus of UNC’s Dramatic Art program, it was a wonderful opportunity to return to PlayMakers Repertory Company to work on this production of Assassins…