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In Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial and Execution, An Illustrated History, James Swanson and Daniel Weinberg present an unprecedented visual record of almost 300 color illustrations of contemporary photographs, documents, prints, woodcuts, newspapers, pamphlets, books, and artifacts–many hitherto unpublished.It was the crime of the nineteenth century, and it led to the most notorious trial in American history. On April 14, 1865, the president of the United States went to the theatre. The rest of the story barely needs retelling. On that night John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln and soon the murderer was hunted down and killed by federal troops. But the story of the Lincoln assassination does not end with the slain president's state funeral and the death of his killer. The book is not a complete or definitive history of the Lincoln murder. Instead it is about what happened after the assassination and the hunt for the conspirators.
It is the first illustrated history of the arrest, trial, and… Read More
