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President Lincoln's killer and the America he left behind : the assassin, the crime, and its lasting blow to freedom and equality / by Jessica Gunderson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Assassins' AmericaPublisher: North Mankato, Minnesota : Compass Point Books, [2018]Description: 64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780756557164
  • 075655716X
  • 9780756557201
  • 0756557208
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Lincoln's killer -- Lincoln's story -- Troubled times -- Booth's crime -- The aftermath -- Timeline -- Glossary -- Source notes -- Select bibliography -- Additional resources -- Index -- About the author.
Summary: Abraham Lincoln was watching a play at Ford's Theatre when a gunman crept up from behind an 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 be no reversing the results of the war, but Lincoln's death put the cause of freedom and equality in danger. His presidency had been cut short, and even today the country lives with the effects of his assassination.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 973.709 G975 Available 33111009279890
Total holds: 0

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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 be no reversing the results of the war, but Lincoln's death put the cause of freedom and equality in danger. His presidency had been cut short, and even today the country lives with the effects of his assassination.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-62) and index.

Ages 9-15.

RL: 5-7 ; IL: 4-9.

Abraham Lincoln was watching a play at Ford's Theatre when a gunman crept up from behind an 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 be no reversing the results of the war, but Lincoln's death put the cause of freedom and equality in danger. His presidency had been cut short, and even today the country lives with the effects of his assassination.

Lincoln's killer -- Lincoln's story -- Troubled times -- Booth's crime -- The aftermath -- Timeline -- Glossary -- Source notes -- Select bibliography -- Additional resources -- Index -- About the author.

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