Chasing Lincoln’s Killer

By James L. Swanson

ARE YOU A DETECTIVE?DO YOU LIKE MYSTERIES?

Get ready to read one of the most interesting and thrilling books about the chase and capture of John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln’s assassin!

Ford’s Theater- Washington D.C.

President Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd, attended a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theater on the night of the assassination.This production starredLaura Keene, a well-known actress of the time.

This is a thriller about the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth: a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia.

• From the book:"This story is true. All the characters

are real and were alive during the great manhunt of April 1865. Their words are authentic and come from original sources: letters, manuscripts, trial transcripts, newspapers, government reports, pamphlets, books and other documents. What happened in Washington, D.C., that spring, and in the swamps and rivers, forests and fields of Maryland and Virginia during the next twelve days, is far too incredible to have been made up."

Some of Booth’s AccomplicesLewis Paine- was to kill Secretary

of State SewardDavid Herold- Booth’s Escape

Partner

Mary Surratt- 1st Woman to be executed by the US

government

Tightening the NoosesOn the Conspirators!

YOU NEED TO READ THIS BOOK TO FIND ALL OF THE AMAZING DETAILS OF THE ASSASSINATION

OF LINCOLN AND ITS AFTERMATH!

Sources

Library of Congress. $100,000 Reward Poster. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource /cph.3g05341/

Library of Congress. Lincoln’s Assassins. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2011633647/resource/

Library of Congress. Assassins’ Hanging. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001698197/resource/

Library of Congress. Ford’s Theater.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cwpb.04202/