On the evening of April 14th 1865 John Wilkes Booth, a dandyish Shakespearean actor and Confederate supporter, crept into Abraham Lincoln’s box at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC. The president, his ...
For most of us, the Lincoln assassination lives only in history books or in television or movie adaptations of the event. But for Samuel J. Seymour (1860–1956), it was a core memory. It was a ...
Revisiting the horrific past of American Presidential assassinations which remains a reminder of political violence in the ...