ASSASSINATION OF
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

STORY CHAPTER LINKS
1. STORY PREFACE
2. ASSASSINATION PLOTS
3. WARNINGS AND OMENS
4. DREAMS OF DEATH
5. TO KIDNAP A PRESIDENT
6. "THE WORST"
7. WHERE WERE THE BODYGUARDS?
8. NO HOPE
9. A FOILED PLOT
10. MULTIPLE FUNERALS
11. BOOTH'S CAPTURE AND DEATH
12. THE CONSPIRACY TRIAL
13. EXECUTION
14. THE REST OF THE STORY
15. THE LAST WORD
16. USED AND RECOMMENDED SOURCES

PREFACE

The President’s head dropped upon his shoulders;
the ball was in his brain.

George Alfred Townsend
Special Correspondent
in
The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth
1866

When Abraham Lincoln delivered his first Inaugural Address, he warned the country:

We are not enemies but friends - We must not be enemies.

His words, of course, went unheeded. In April of 1861, the month following his speech, the American Civil War began.

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Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.