264pp+illus. Red cloth. A dramatic hour-by-hour narrative of the events on Good Friday 1865 when President Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre in full view of a fashionable Washington audience. The characters and events leading up to the fateful day; Lincoln's premonition of death; his jealous unstable wife; the flamboyant John Wilkes Booth; his flight and capture. Bibliography.

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