'American Brutus': The Lone Gunmen
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By JAY WINIK
Published: December 19, 2004
IT is Friday, April 14, 1865. Four years of ghastly civil war are
coming to a close. Teeming with hope, the North celebrates heartily: in
Washington, bonfires burn, flags snap festively, a 500-gun salute
booms. Meanwhile, the president is going to the theater. At Ford's,
Abraham Lincoln acknowledges the audience's applause with a slight bow
before settling his tired frame into his chair. Then, at 10:15, a
bullet tears into his brain, plunging the nation into chaos.
AMERICAN BRUTUS
John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies.
By Michael W. Kauffman.
Illustrated. 508 pp. Random House. $29.95.
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