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Assassination Investigation United States Case studies Assassins Assassins Fiction Booth, John Wilkes 1838-1865 Conspiracies Conspiracies Fiction Fugitives from justice United States Case studies Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Assassination United States History Civil War, 1861-1865Summary: 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 LINArtist 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 HUNSummary: 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
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ASSSwanson, 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 SwaHanchett, William
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 HANSwanson, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 SWASwanson, James L.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.7092 SWAWeichmann, Louis J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.13 WEISteers, Edward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1524 STEFowler, Karen Joy
Summary: "From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOWCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FOWChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: John Wilkes Booth's misguided quest to avenge the vanquished Confederacy led him to commit one of the most notorious acts in the annals of America. Four women were integral in his life: Mary Ann, the mother he revered above all but country; his sister and confidante, Asia; Lucy Lambert Hale, the senator's daughter who loved him; and the Confederate widow Mary Surratt, to whom he entrusted the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016