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Lincoln Assassination Reexamined by Wilson Book
Review of John Wilkes Booth Fact and Fiction by Francis Wilson. Recounts Booth’s motives and plans, corrects myths about the assassination, burial, and later impostors. Notes Booth likely died by his own hand in a burned barn, not by a soldier, with several fake Booths exposed. Includes confection recipes and kitchen lore as page filler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
Concord Bridge
Massachusetts
Ford
Washington, D. C
Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Lincoln
Houghton Mifflin Company
Francis Wilson
Laura Keene
Ford’s
Booth
Edwin Booth
Wilson
Citi
Grant
John §. Clarke
South
Lee
White House
Lewis Payne
Boston Corbett
Stanton
Penitentiary
Washington
Baltimore
John Wilkes Booths
Finis L. Bates
Memphis
Tenn
Bates
John St. Helen
St. Helen
David B. George
Oklahoma
George
Enid
Okla
Minneapolis
Blanche de Bar Booth
Junius Brutus Booth
Edwin
Blanche
Johnno