Source:Variety

October 6, 2008

Kevin Bacon is preparing a series for Showtime that centers on the man who would eventually assassinate Abraham Lincoln, says Variety.

"The Booths" will revolve around actor-brothers Edwin, Junius Brutus Jr. and John Wilkes Booth and their dysfunctional relationship in the years prior to Lincoln's assassination.

John Wilkes Booth was the son of British Shakespearean actor Junius Brutus Booth and actress Mary Ann Holmes.

John Wilkes Booth eventually became a rabid defender of the South and clashed with his brother Edwin. The three brothers performed together just once, in a New York showing of "Julius Caesar" in 1864.

Booth shot Lincoln at Ford's Theatre while the President was watching the play "Our American Cousin" on April 14, 1865.