President Lincoln's Killer and the America He Left Behind: The Assassin, the Crime, and Its Lasting Blow to Freedom and Equality

by Jessica S. Gunderson

Book Overview

Abraham Lincoln was watching a play at Ford's Theatre when a gunman crept up from behind and fired at the president's head. As Lincoln crumpled with a terrible wound, the shooter leapt from the balcony and fled before a shocked audience. He was John Wilkes Booth, a well-known stage actor, and he imagined himself a hero avenging the South's defeat in the Civil War. Soldiers searched for Booth as Lincoln suffered long hours before dying. There would...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075655716X
• ISBN13: 9780756557164
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Compass Point Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.7" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 10