Meet the key players involved in the assassintation of Abraham Lincoln.
Filmmaker Barak Goodman describes making The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, including dramatic recreations of the manhunt forJohn Wilkes Booth.
Images of Abraham Lincoln as he lay dying filled the popular press in the days following the assassination.
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Over the next twelve days, the largest manhunt ever attempted closed in on his assassin.
In the Boston Sunday Globe of November 10, 1940, Ambassador Joe Kennedy shared his opinion: “Democracy is finished in England. It may be here.”
