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Summary: 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LIN

Summary: 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ASS

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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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HUN

Hanchett, William

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 1983

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 HAN

Steers, Edward.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1524 STE

Swanson, James L.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2009

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.7092 SWA

Weichmann, Louis J.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1975

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.13 WEI

Swanson, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 364.1524 Swa

Swanson, James L.

Summary: The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry and detectives on a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia, while the nation, still reeling from the just-ended Civil War, watched in horror. A Confederate...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 SWA

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