The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln The United States of America's finest President was brutally killed on April 15th, 1865. How large was the conspiracy to ...
John Wilkes Booth certainly saw himself as a dramatic figure in history. Upon shooting Lincoln, he jumped onto the stage and condemned his victim in Latin.
Historian Harold Holzer recaptures the drama of Lincoln's assassination, the hunt for the conspirators and their military trial, and the nation's mourning for the ...
On May 1, 1865, two weeks after Abraham Lincolns assassination, President Andrew Johnson appointed John Frederick Hartranft to command the Washington ...
John Wilkes Booth knew he had to act quickly to save the South. But his original plan wasn't to kill Lincoln, it was to kidnap him. From the Show: LINCOLN'S ...