Features a biographical sketch of the American actor John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865). Notes that Booth shot and killed the U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865.
So it was left to Eleanor Farjeon to complete the task after the death of her father. This is a unique look at the man who changed the world by assassinating Abraham Lincoln.
Leading the reader through a series of amazing coincidences and details, this book presents startling evidence that John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, was never captured but escaped to live for decades, continue his ...
... John Wilkes Booth's Political Draft Preserved at the Players Club NYC . " Unpublished manuscript , copy in ... in author's files . Kauffman , Michael W. “ Booth , Republicanism and the Lincoln Assassination . " Special Scholars ...
Certain portions reprinted from: The unlocked book: a memoir of John Wilkes Booth by his sister Asia Booth Clarke (1938), published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, copyright 1938.