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Backstage at the Lincoln assassination : the untold story of the actors and stagehands at Ford's Theatre
- Title
- Backstage at the Lincoln assassination : the untold story of the actors and stagehands at Ford's Theatre / Thomas A. Bogar.
- Author
- Bogar, Thomas A., 1948-
- Publication
- Washington, DC : Regnery History, 2015.
- ©2013
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Details
- Description
- xxii, 376 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Summary
- "The untold story of Lincoln's assassination: the forty-six stage hands, actors, and theater workers on hand for the bewildering events in the theater that night, and what each of them witnessed in the chaos-streaked hours before John Wilkes Booth was discovered to be the culprit"--Amazon.com.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-351) and index.
- Contents
- "Is John Booth crazy?" -- "A hotbed of spies and seditious plots" -- "It is a lottery, this profession of ours" -- "Our American cousin" -- "The handsomest man in Washington!" -- "Have you got the key?" -- "I guess I know enough to turn you inside out" -- "Burn the damned place down!" -- "One of the last places to which a good man should go" -- "Dreadful uncertainty" -- "Ignorance and innocence" -- "Good bye. Sometimes think of me." -- "Actors, in order to live, must go on with their business" -- "To open all my wounds afresh" -- "The merest shadows of truth" -- Epilogue: "walking shadows."
- Call Number
- MWED (Washington, D.C.) 22-4672
- ISBN
- 9781621573203
- 1621573206
- 9781621570837
- 1621570835
- OCLC
- 907293930
- Author
- Bogar, Thomas A., 1948- author.
- Title
- Backstage at the Lincoln assassination : the untold story of the actors and stagehands at Ford's Theatre / Thomas A. Bogar.
- Publisher
- Washington, DC : Regnery History, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Edition
- [First paperback edition].
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-351) and index.
- Research Call Number
- MWED (Washington, D.C.) 22-4672