John Wilkes Booth
Books
- Where Is Booth? The Twelve-Day Manhunt for John Wilkes Booth · Liszt Think
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth fled Ford’s Theatre into the Maryland night. What followed were twelve days of desperate evasion and relentless pursuit across the Potomac tidewater.
- The City of Oil Lamps…m the protection of surrender, or to disappear into the general population, or to attempt one final operation that might redeem the defeat. John Wilkes Booth moved through this city as a familiar figure. At twenty-six, he was among the most celebrated actors in America, his performances as Richar…
- The Scream Before the Shot…ce that no single observer had seen whole. The result is not a narrative but a palimpsest: layers of testimony, each honest, none complete. John Wilkes Booth, an American stage actor who assassinated United States president Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865, had prepared his exi…
- The Sergeant at the Navy Yard Bridge…ld not learn what he had permitted until morning, when the telegraph brought word of the assassination and the description of the murderer: John Wilkes Booth, actor, five feet eight inches, black hair, mustache, well-dressed, riding a bay mare with a white star on her forehead. The bridge Cobb gu…