assassins

Discusses the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865; discussing how John Wilkes Booth executed and was punished for the killing and how the event transformed Lincoln from man to myth.

Tells the life stories of nineteenth-century actor Edwin Booth and his actor brother John Wilkes Booth, describing the differences between the two men, chronicling John's assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and examining the impact of John's crime on the Booth family for decades afterward.