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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
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In this travelogue, journalist Sarah Vowell explores the history of American presidential assassinations. From the Florida Keys all the way to Alaska, Vowell visits assassination sites, museums, prisons, monuments, and even a religious commune. Along the way she shares strange-but-true historical facts -- for instance, did you know that Robert Todd Lincoln, "a.k.a. Jinxy McDeath," was present at several presidential assassinations? -- and offers keen...
Author
Publisher
Taylor Trade Publishing
Language
English
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Description
Argues that John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, was never captured, but instead may have escaped to live for decades after his supposed arrest continuing his acting career, marrying, and even having children.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Nora Titone offers a provocative look into the life of John Wilkes Booth and reveals how a fierce sibling rivalry with his brother Edwin contributed to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Here, Titone takes listeners beyond the conspiracy to murder Lincoln and examines how bitter tension within the Booth family, instead of the Civil War, is perhaps the main driving force behind John Wilkes Booth's actions.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the fateful balcony in Ford's Theatre to Dr. Samuel Mudd's remote home to the fiery showdown in a Virginia farmhouse, experience firsthand the suspenseful, breakneck search for America's first presidential assassin. Discover the awesome reach of his conspiracy, which had further targeted Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward in a bid to undermine the U.S. Government and give the Confederacy a second chance. No man...
12) Klandestine: how a Klan lawyer and a checkbook journalist helped James Earl Ray cover up his crime
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"This fast-paced history traces the escalating racial violence that led to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and then documents how Klan lawyer Arthur J. Hanes and checkbook journalist William Bradford Huie aided the evolution of James Earl Ray's bogus alibi"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
454 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"With a single shot from a pistol small enough to conceal in his hand, John Wilkes Booth catapulted into history on the night of April 14, 1865. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln stunned a nation that was just emerging from the chaos and calamity of the Civil War, and the president's untimely death altered the trajectory of postwar history. But to those who knew Booth, the event was even more shocking--for no one could have imagined that...
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