We Saw Lincoln Shot: One Hundred Eyewitness Accounts

by Timothy S Good

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781604736960
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	02/01/1996
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Timothy S. Good is a National Park Service employee and lives in Arnold, Missouri. His research interests lie in the history of the Lincoln presidency and in American maritime history.