George A. Parkhurst

[2] When Booth shot President Lincoln, Parkhurst was onstage playing the part of a bailiff[3] as a member of a stock company managed by the British actress Laura Keene.

[1] Parkhurst had planned to stop by Booth’s dressing room at Ford's Theatre that night to borrow a costume;[1] an appointment that for different reasons both missed.

[3] By the 1880s he apparently felt secure enough to become more active on stage and later found success playing Hobbs in the original American productions of Little Lord Fauntleroy.

[1] During this time Parkhurst had toured for several seasons with actress Maggie Mitchell's company in the play Fanchon, the Cricket, an adaptation of George Sand's La Petite Fadette by August Waldauer,[7] and received critical acclaim[1] for the role he was most proud of, Colonel Buzzy in a theatrical production of Amélie Rives' The Quick or the Dead.

[1][8] Parkhurst was interred at Prospect Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.[9] Some six months before his death Parkhurst made the claim in the press that on the afternoon of April 14, John Wilkes Booth visited an actor friend staying at Petersen House in Washington D.C. During his stay Booth's friend noticed that the actor seemed agitated and suggested that he lie down on his bed for a short rest, supposedly the same bed Abraham Lincoln died in just a few hours later.