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Backstage at the Lincoln assassination : the untold story of the actors and stagehands at Ford's Theatre / Thomas A. Bogar.

Bogar, Thomas A., 1948- (Author).

Summary:

"The untold story of Lincoln's assassination: the forty-six stage hands, actors, and theater workers on hand for the bewildering events in the theater that night, and what each of them witnessed in the chaos-streaked hours before John Wilkes Booth was discovered to be the culprit"--Amazon.com.

Record details

ISBN: 9781621570837
ISBN: 1621570835
Physical Description: xx, 377 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Publisher: Washington, DC : Regnery History, [2013]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-351) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

"Is John Booth crazy?" -- "A hotbed of spies and seditious plots" -- "It is a lottery, this profession of ours" -- "Our American cousin" -- "The handsomest man in Washington!" -- "Have you got the key?" -- "I guess I know enough to turn you inside out" -- "Burn the damned place down!" -- "One of the last places to which a good man should go" -- "Dreadful uncertainty" -- "Ignorance and innocence" -- "Good bye. Sometimes think of me." -- "Actors, in order to live, must go on with their business" -- "To open all my wounds afresh" -- "The merest shadows of truth" -- Epilogue: "walking shadows".