Indeed, all text appearing within quotation marks comes from original sources: letters, manuscripts, affidavits, trial transcripts, newspapers, government reports, pamphlets, books, memoirs, and other documents. All the characters are real and were alive during the great manhunt of April 1865. Touring wax portrait of the assassination 386 A Note to the Reader This story is true. The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth 346 15. Luther and Lafayette Baker and Everton Conger 284 13. Booth portrait used in the manhunt 236 12. The assassination of President Lincoln 47 5. “So Runs the World Away” Epilogue John Wilkes Booth’s Diary Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes Index 344 371 389 393 397 415 439 About the Author Credits Cover Copyright About the Publisher List of Illustrations 1. “That Vile Rabble of Human Bloodhounds” 176 7.
“We Have Assassinated the President” 95 5. “I Had This Strange Dream Again Last Night” viii x 1 9 2. john wilkes booth to his sister at a private home shortly before president lincoln’s reelection in november 1864 Contents List of Illustrations A Note to the Reader Prologue 1. a false president yearning for a kingly succession. the tool of the North, to crush out, or try to crush out slavery, by robbery, rapine, slaughter and bought armies. president-elect abraham lincoln during a speech on february 22, 1861, ten days before taking the oath of office as the sixteenth president of the united states This man’s appearance, his pedigree, his coarse jokes and anecdotes, his vulgar similes, and his policy are a disgrace to the seat he holds. I would rather be assassinated on this spot than to surrender it. if this country cannot be saved without giving up on that principle. If it can’t be saved upon that principle. Now, my friends, can this country be saved upon that basis?. that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance.
Swanson For my parents, Lennart and Dianne Swanson I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence.
MANHUNT The t w e lv e - d ay c h a s e for l i n c o l n’s k i l l e r James L.
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