Research Catalog

Title

• The Lincoln conspiracy / by David Balsiger and Charles E. Sellier, Jr.

Author

Balsiger, David W.

Publication

Los Angeles, Calif. : Schick Sunn Classic Books, c1977.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) MsSM
• Sellier, Charles E.,

Description

318 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill.; 18 cm.

Summary

On April 14, 1965, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated while attending a play at Ford's Theatre. Historical accounts tell us the murder was committed by a crazed actor named John Wilkes Booth, and no one else. Now, after more than a century, startling new answers are uncovered.

Subject

• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Assassination

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Behind the Lincoln conspiracy -- The Dahlgren raid -- Planters plot a kidnap -- Two more kidnap plots -- The moneymen conspire -- The radicals plot thickens -- First kidnap try a fiasco -- Booth out, "Capt. B." in -- Who'll kidnap first? -- If at first you don't succeed -- War's end makes desperate men -- Target day for assassination -- Lincoln's final day of life -- Night of the assassination -- More blood as deathwatch begins -- Escape to the swamps -- The chase is on -- The pursuers close in -- The diary tells a wicked story -- Hot trails grow hotter -- Murder at Garrett's farm -- Any corpse will do -- Identity crisis -- Conspiracy to cover up conspiracy -- Travesty of justice -- All efforts fail -- The cover-up uncovered -- Epilogue : final curtain -- About the authors.

ISBN

091721403X :

LCCN

^^^77073521^

OCLC

3308424

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library