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...most powerful scene in the play, wonderfully directed by Phoebe Wray, in which Leon Czolgosz tells of the torture of slaving over a hot oven in a bottle-making factory, but cannot bring himself to release his anger by breaking a bottle at a bar, is almost too painful to watch...
...with past and future killers inspiring one another in a grand conspiracy. This mildly provocative notion is made silly by being rendered literal: the opening features a carnival shooting gallery and then a kind of time-warp barroom where John Wilkes Booth meets John W. Hinckley Jr., where Leon Czolgosz, killer of William McKinley, encounters Giuseppe Zangara, attempted murderer of Franklin Roosevelt. In the climax, Booth and the others show up in Dallas to persuade Lee Harvey Oswald to shoot John F. Kennedy instead of killing himself...
...Charles Manson disciple who is all passion and intensity; and Sara Jane Moore, a former mental patient, who in Debra Monk's stunning evocation is all matronly giggles and chilling folksiness. In other ably written scenes, Victor Garber brings condescending grandeur to Booth, Terrence Mann finds earnest simplicity in Czolgosz, Greg Germann gives a dorky sweetness to Hinckley, and Jonathan Hadary evokes hysterical egomania in Charles Guiteau, killer of James Garfield...
Like the Last Supper. McKinley was shot, while shaking hands in a receiving line in Buffalo, by a mentally unstable anarchist from Cleveland named Leon Czolgosz (pronounced chol-gosh). The trial ended with the prisoner's confession that he and he alone had done it; he was subsequently electrocuted. What fascinated Friedensohn was that "in every assassination, so many of the same elements recur. People always ask, 'Was there an accomplice?' 'Was the operation performed properly?' 'Were enough safety precautions taken?' And, after the assassination, there's usually a great deal...
...Eichmann sought to evade moral responsibility by claiming that he was following orders, Stauffenberg disobeyed orders in the name of moral responsibility. He had little in common with history's successful assassins. He was no envious leftist loser and loner like Lee Harvey Oswald, no anarchist fanatic like Czolgosz (the man who killed President McKinley), no tribal desperado like Princip (who shot Archduke Ferdinand and brought on World War I). He was rather an honorable officer and gentleman, a colonel on the general staff of the German army. Why, then, did he decide to organize and lead a conspiracy...