Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780766160316
Subjects: USA; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Murder - General; United States - 19th Century; True Crime / Espionage
First sentence: President Abraham Lincoln was born near Salem, Kentucky, United States of America, in a log cabin, on the 12th day of February, 1809, of humble parentage, and was president of the Northern Federal States of America, after the secession of the Southern States, beginning March 4th, 1861, whereby was brought about a temporary dissolution of the Union of the United States of America, when the political issues of the rights of States to withdraw and secede from the Union of States and the constitutional right slavery of the black race, as had been promulgated since, before and beginning with the independence of, and federation of the American Colonies ; afterward transformed into sovereign State governments.