We saw Lincoln shot : one hundred eyewitness accounts

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Label

We saw Lincoln shot : one hundred eyewitness accounts

Title remainder

one hundred eyewitness accounts

Statement of responsibility

edited by Timothy S. Good

Contributor

• Good, Timothy S., (Timothy Sean)

Subject

• Assassination
• Lincoln, Abraham
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Assassination
• Mord
• Quelle

Language

eng

Summary

• On the evening of 14 April 1865 when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theatre, an entire audience was witness to the tragedy. From diaries, letters, depositions, affidavits, and periodicals, here is a collection of accounts from a variety of theatergoers - who by chance saw one of the truly pivotal events in U.S. history. Providing minute first-hand details recorded over a span of ninety years, We Saw Lincoln Shot explores a subject that will forever
• Be debated. With a sharp focus upon the circumstances reported by one hundred actual witnesses, We Saw Lincoln Shot provides vivid documentation of a momentous evening and exposes errors that have been perpetuated as the assassination has been rendered into written histories

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E457.5

LC item number

.W4 1995

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography