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Edward (Hrsg.) Steers

The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators

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On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in what he envisioned part of a scheme to plunge the federal government into chaos and gain a reprieve for the struggling Confederacy. The plan failed. By April 26, Booth was killed resisting capture and eight of the nine conspirators eventually charged in Lincoln's murder were in custody. Their trial would become one of the most famous and most controversial in U.S. history. New president Andrew Johnson's executive order on May 1 directed that persons charged with Lincoln's murder stand trial before a military tribunal. The trial lasted more than fifty d… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8131-4111-4
  • EAN: 9780813141114
  • Produktnummer: 13029493
  • Verlag: Univ Pr Of Kentucky
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 421 S.
  • Masse: H23.3 cm x B15.4 cm x D3.8 cm 846 g
  • Gewicht: 846

Über den Autor


Edward Steers Jr. is the author of several books about President Lincoln and his assassination, including Lincoln: A Pictorial History, His Name is Still Mudd: The Case Against Doctor Samuel Alexander Mudd, and Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

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