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Chasing Lincoln's killer

Recounts the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

Chasing Lincoln's killer

Recounts the twelve-day pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth, covering the chase through Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, with a discussion of Abraham Lincoln as a father, husband, and friend that examines the impact of his death on those close to him.

Chasing Lincoln's killer

Recounts the twelve-day pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth, covering the chase through Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, with a discussion of Abraham Lincoln as a father, husband, and friend that examines the impact of his death on those close to him.

Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth

Presents the biographies of Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth, and details the life of each man leading up to the assassination.

Good brother, bad brother

the story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth
2017
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.
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Good brother, bad brother

the story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth
Biography of Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, two brothers and accomplished actors, who held opposing views politically and one of who shot Abraham Lincoln.

The murder of Abraham Lincoln

a chronicle of 62 days in the life of the American Republic, March 4-May 4, 1865
Presents a graphic novel that recounts the conspiracy by John Wilkes Booth and other Confederate sympathizers to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln, the capture of the conspirators and death of Booth, and the funeral procession and entombment of the President in Springfield, Illinois.

Assassin

In alternating passages, a young White House seamstress named Bella and the actor John Wilkes Booth describe the events that lead to the latter's assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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Chasing Lincoln's killer

Recounts the twelve-day pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth, covering the chase through Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, with a discussion of Abraham Lincoln as a father, husband, and friend that examines the impact of his death on those close to him.

Tragedy and promise

2004
Contains two episodes of the CBS News series "You Are There" in which significant historical events are reconstructed and presented as on-the-scene news stories, looking at the capture of John Wilkes Booth twelve days after the assassination of President Lincoln, and the first Texas oil strike in 1901.

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