John Wilkes Booth

By W. C. Jameson

Subjects: Assassination, Assassins, Biography, Fugitives from justice

Description: Very well done report of actual historical information. Summarizes what some other authors have written and makes inconsistencies in government records clear. Points out many assumptions that are not based on actual witness reports and exposes testimony that was clearly not based on fact. Best summary of the events of Booth's life and the circumstances around Lincoln's assassination as well as Booth's actual movements prior to the end of the search for Booth. Also summarizes reports that it was not Booth that was killed at the Garret farm in Virginia with clear indications that many government officials knew that it was not Booth that was killed. Well worth the read for people interested in the facts surrounding the assassination of Lincoln and inconsistencies surrounding Edwin Stanton and Lafayette Baker.