So I Killed Lincoln: John Wilkes Booth
New York: Vantage Press, 1976. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xxi, [3], 225, [5] pages. Illustrations. Scenes and Cast of Characters. Bibliography. Inscribed and dated by the author on the fep. John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. A member of the prominent, 19th-century Booth theatrical family from Maryland, and a famous actor in his own right, Booth was also a Confederate sympathizer who, denouncing President Lincoln, lamented the recent abolition of slavery in the United States. Originally, Booth and his small group of conspirators had plotted to kidnap Lincoln, but they later agreed to murder him as well as Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward, likewise to aid the Confederate cause. Although its Army of Northern Virginia had surrendered four days earlier, Booth believed that the War remained unresolved because the army of General Joseph E. Johnston continued fighting. In this narrative, John Wilkes Booth returns to his birthplace and to the scene of the Lincoln assassination to re-enact the crime and tell how he came to commit it. Booth was strongly opposed to the abolitionists who sought to end slavery in the U.S. He attended the hanging of abolitionist leader John Brown on December 2, 1859, who was executed for leading a raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry in present-day West Virginia. Booth shot President Lincoln once in the back of the head. Lincoln's death the next morning completed Booth's piece of the plot. Booth fled on horseback to southern Maryland and, 12 days later, at a farm in rural northern Virginia, was tracked down sheltered in a barn. Booth's companion there surrendered, but Booth maintained a standoff. After the authorities set the barn ablaze, Union soldier Boston Corbett fatally shot him in the neck. Paralyzed, he died a few hours later. Of the eight conspirators later convicted, four were soon hanged. Condition: Good / Good.
Keywords: Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, Assassination, Insanity, Junius Brutus Booth, Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN: 0533020352
[Book #51623]
Price: $75.00