The Assassinator
The Trial and Hanging of John Wilkes Booth
WHAT IF JOHN WILKES BOOTH WERE TRIED FOR ASSASSINATING ABRAHAM LINCOLN? Fleeing south after shooting President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth was cornered in a barn in Virginia and mortally wounded when he refused to surrender to pursuing Federal cavalrymen. His death some hours later denied the nation a trial that might have revealed his motives and possible links to the Confederate government. In this riveting tale, historian William L. Richter continues his study of what Booth believed he was accomplishing in figuratively firing the last shot of what the South called the War for Southern Independence. The reader is taken through a trial where…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4787-3865-7
- EAN: 9781478738657
- Produktnummer: 16714220
- Verlag: Outskirts Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 184 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.0 cm 240 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 240
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