The Lincoln assassination riddle : revisiting the crime of the nineteenth century / edited by Frank J. Williams and Michael Burkhimer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Frank J., editor.

Burkhimer, Michael, 1973- editor, author.

Series:

True crime history series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Assassination.

Lincoln, Abraham.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.

Assassination.

Physical Description:

ix, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2016]

Contents:

The Baltimore plot: was John Wilkes Booth involved in the first conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln? / Michael J. Kline

John Wilkes Booth's Confederate connection / Edward Steers Jr.

Guilt by insinuation: law and illusion in the Lincoln conspiracy / Michael W. Kauffman

The wound of Mr. Lincoln / Blaine V. Houmes, M.D.

The men who caught Lincoln's assassin: how twenty nine men succeeded where 10,000 searchers failed / Steven G. Miller

The mystery of Mrs. Surratt: did she or didn't she? / Laurie Verge

John Harrison Surratt Jr. / Joan L. Chaconas

Lewis Powell: alias Paine-Confederate guerrilla freedom fighter or terrorist? / Betty J. Ownsbey

The Weichmann enigma / Steven J. Wright

Mary Lincoln and the Lincoln assassination: grief unbounded / Richard W. Etulain

Robert Todd Lincoln: the grieving prince of rails / Michael S. Green

Shattered and altered lives of the Lincoln assassination / Hugh Boyle

Abraham Lincoln: voting rights martyr? / Michael Burkhimer

The law of war, General Orders No. 100, and the military trial of the conspirators / Burrus M. Carnahan

What goes around comes around: Americans interpret the Lincoln assassination / Thomas R. Turner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781606352953

1606352954

OCLC:

921821854