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Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination
Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination: The Untold Story of the Actors and Stagehands at Ford's Theatre | Thomas Bogar
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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 (…more)
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"This is the untold story of Lincoln's assassination: the story of what the backstage workers and onstage actors witnessed when President Abraham Lincoln was shot.
The theatre in which John Wilkes Booth committed the most infamous crime in American history was crammed, as usual, with actors, stagehands, doorkeepers, promoters, musicians, costumers,callboys--the whole multifarious crew required to put on a play on the nineteenth-century stage."

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Visiting Lincoln's home on our way back up to Chicago. @Liberty thought you might like all the Civil War books. They, obviously, had quite a few.

Liberty I WANT TO GO TO THERE. 9y
MrBook Wow! 😁👍🏻 9y
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