In Act 3, we continue on through the journey of John Wilkes Booth as it relates to his politics. In this episode, I am going to begin an argument about how the assassination of Lincoln was a political as anything else. In Act 1, we learned about Junius Brutus Booth, in Act 2 we meet Edwin Booth and learn more about the brothers, and in this episode we collect the thoughts and information that will shape John Wilkes Booth.
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Kauffman, M. W. (2004). American Brutus: John Wilkes booth and the Lincoln conspiracies. Random House.
Swanson, J. (2009). Chasing Lincoln’s Killer. Scholastic.
Swanson, J. L. (2006). Manhunt: The 12-day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer. Harper Large Print.
Swanson, J. L. (2010). Bloody Crimes the Chase for Jefferson Davis and the death pageant for Lincoln’s corpse. William Morrow/HarperCollins.
Titone, N. (2011). My thoughts be bloody: The bitter rivalry between Edwin and John Wilkes booth that led to an American tragedy. Free Press.
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Taylor, Marian (2004). Harriet Tubman: Antislavery Activist. Chelsea House Publishers. pp. 68–69. ISBN 978-0-7910-8340-6.
Cordley, Richard (1895). “Chapter VI”. A History of Lawrence Kansas, from the Earliest Settlement to the Close of the Rebellion. Lawrence, KS: Lawrence Journal Press. Archived from the original on November 23, 2002. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
https://examples.yourdictionary.com/articles/quotes-by-john-brown-that-made-impact-history
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