Second in a six-part series tracing the history of stage drama and the American imagination from pre-Revolutionary days to the late 20th century, through expert interviews and archival images. This segment focuses on the Booth family to evaluate their impact on American theater and to create an image of Victorian American culture. Brooks McNamara, expert on 19th-century theater at New York University, and theater historian and author Mary Henderson delve into the careers of actor Julius Brutus Booth, Sr.; notorius assassin John Wilkes Booth; and actor Edwin Booth, America's first great Hamlet and possibly the most important American actor of the 19th century.