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A riveting, fictionalized confessional of John Wilkes Booth that evokes a world of conspiracy, political duplicity, and theatricality.In 1890, actor John Wilkes Boothlong presumed deademerged from twenty-five years of anonymity in his wilderness refuge to expose those truly responsible for the Lincoln assassination and its ensuing cover-up, to unite with the children he had never known and recover what he might of his sense of purpose and dignity.After shooting President Abraham Lincoln, Booth fled into the night, and government reports claimed he was killed twelve days later. But the man who was shot in the head and burned in a tobacco-shed fire before being covertly transported to Washington was never fully identified. Friends, as well as members of America's premier family of the theatre of which he was a member, were barred from even viewing the body, the only photograph taken of the corpse was never printed, and then lost, and a strangely ceremonious martial court presided over a secret burial. Rumour immediately began to circulate: Booth was still alive.In Lincoln's Assassin, Jeffrey Pennington presents Booth's own story of flight and return, detailing how another was shot

Author

Jeffrey Francis Pennington

Publisher

Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781632208781

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Adventure