Chasing Lincoln's Killer Author: James L. Swanson | Language: English | ISBN:
B0085559Y4 | Format: PDF
Chasing Lincoln's Killer Description
NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author James Swanson delivers a riveting account of the chase for Abraham Lincoln's assassin.
Based on rare archival material, obscure trial manuscripts, and interviews with relatives of the conspirators and the manhunters, CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER is a fast-paced thriller about the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth: a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia.
- File Size: 3587 KB
- Print Length: 208 pages
- Publisher: Scholastic Press; 1 edition (September 1, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B0085559Y4
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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"The crowd gasped when they saw Lincoln being carried out of the theater. They swarmed and surrounded the president. Leale, the doctors, and soldiers cradling the dying president halted. Where should they take Lincoln? Leale scanned the street for a refuge. Straining his voice to be heard by a sword-bearing officer, he shouted a command. Take the president straight across the street and into the nearest house. A soldier crossed ahead, pounding on the door, demanding entry.
"In view of the horrified mob in the street, Dr. Leale pulled another blood clot from the hole in Lincoln's head to relieve the pressure on the brain and tossed the gooey mass into the street. Fresh blood and brain matter oozed through Leale's fingers.
"When Leale was halfway across the street, soldiers on the other side yelled that the house was locked and no one answered the door. The scene was incredible, impossible! Stranded in the middle of the muddy street with no place to go, the president of the United States was dying in the presence of a mob of hundreds, perhaps a thousand, witnesses."
It was no small feat to bring together a thousand witnesses in those days. It was such a relatively small US population. Imagine if nine out of every ten people around you instantly disappeared. That would give you a good idea of how many people lived in the US at the end of the Civil War. Nevertheless, I still cannot get my mind around how in those days "almost anyone could walk into the Executive Mansion without being searched and request a brief meeting with the president." This, at a time when countless citizens of the defeated Confederacy were actively plotting revenge against Lincoln, horrified by his push for equality for African Americans, and blaming him for the loss of their former way of life.
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