We Saw Lincoln Shot: One Hundred Eyewitness Accounts

by Timothy S. Good

Book Overview

On the evening of April 14, 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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087805779X
• ISBN13: 9780878057795
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Fascinating read!

This is a neat book. What a great idea to compile eyewitness accounts of the murder of Lincoln. It's very interesting to see how the accounts are alike and how they differ. The book provides a brief explanation before each eyewitness account. You'll like this book!

Almost as though you were there...

This is an outstanding book for anyone who really wants to get a glimpse of the Lincoln assassination as though you were there, or at least hearing about it via contemporaneous accounts. It helps sort out what probably happened from a lot of the embellishments that came later, but now seem to be accepted as facts in many places. My biggest concern in buying this book was that so many accounts of essentially the same things would become repetitive. As it turns out, not the case at all--not only are the accounts about many different aspects of the assassination and many different perspectives among those, the editor/author adds enough commentary to place each in context. A must-read for anyone interested in the Lincoln assassination.

Great book

Very comprehensive book- the only one out there like it. It is interesting to read what the people in the theatre that terrible night actually saw and heard. I learned some things I didn't know by reading this book, and would definately reccommend it to anyone interested in the Lincoln Assasanation.

Very resourceful as well as interesting!

I had to read a book on American History for my college course. I am interested in President Lincoln's assassination and this book caught my eye! Very interesting and hard to put down! Highly reccommended to anyone, old or young.

FANTASTIC BOOK...EVERY LINCOLN BUFF SHOULD READ IT !

This is a wonderful, very informative book. It's the only written collection of eye witness accounts ever published on the Lincoln assasination. Every Lincoln buff needs to add this one to his or her library.