Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination The Untold Story of the Actors and Stagehands at Ford's Theatre |
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| Author:
| Bogar, Thomas A. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-62157-083-7 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2013 |
| Publisher: | Regnery Publishing
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $27.95 |
Book Description:
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April 14, 1865. A famous actor pulls a trigger in the presidential balcony, leaps to the stage and escapes, as the president lies fatally wounded. In the panic that follows, forty-six terrified people scatter in and around Ford's Theater as soldiers take up stations by the doors and the audience surges into the streets chanting, "Burn the place dow
April 14, 1865. A famous actor pulls a trigger in the presidential balcony, leaps to the stage and escapes, as the president lies fatally wounded. In the panic that follows, forty-six terrified people scatter in and around Ford's Theater as soldiers take up stations by the doors and the audience surges into the streets chanting, "Burn the place dow