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Assassination Investigation United States 19th century Booth, John Wilkes 1838-1865 Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Assassination Presidents Assassination United States Richards, A. C d. 1907 United States History 1865-1898 United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States. Army. Military Commission. Weichmann, Louis JFilter By Subjects
Assassination Investigation United States 19th century Booth, John Wilkes 1838-1865 Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Assassination Presidents Assassination United States Richards, A. C d. 1907 United States History 1865-1898 United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States. Army. Military Commission. Weichmann, Louis JSummary: Celebrate the nation's sixteenth president. Presents a complex portrait of a man who many consider to be our greatest commander-in-chief, but who considered himself a lonely man. Brings to life the tumultuous time in which he led the country, some of his finest Civil War moments, and his final hours.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LINChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: The world would not look upon his like again. John Wilkes Booth--driven son of an acclaimed British stage actor and a Covent Garden flower girl, whose misguided quest to avenge the vanquished Confederacy led him to commit one of the most notorious acts in the annals of America--has been the subject of scholarship, speculation, and even obsession. Though in his plot to assassinate President...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHISwanson, James L.
Summary: Dramatically portraying John Wilkes Booth's brutal crime and pulse-pounding escape, Swanson takes listeners on the unrelenting chase for the killer. Having sacrificed his wealth and theatrical legacy for a single bullet, the frantic Booth flees from D.C.'s streets, through Maryland's marshes, and into Virginia's woodlands. Trying to soothe the stunned nation, federal and local authorities...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 364.1524 SwaArtist Not Provided
Summary: Explores the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HUNWeichmann, Louis J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.13 WEISummary: On March 4, 1865, at the United States Capitol, a crowd of fifty thousand listened as President Lincoln delivered his classic second inaugural address, urging charity and forgiveness to a nation in the final throes of war. Just two months later, a train, nine cars long and draped in black bunting, pulled slowly out of a station in Washington, D.C. Dignitaries and government officials crowded...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2009