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Swanson, James L.
CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER
New York : Scholastic, 2009
IL YA
ISBN 0439903548
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 April 1864, spring had come to Washington and the long Civil War had come to an end. President Lincoln, his wife and several friends were enjoying an evening out at Ford’s theater,
Suddenly, someone stepped into the booth and shot the President. Who was John Wilkes Booth?
Was he a lone terrorist or part of a bigger conspiracy? Follow the author’s investigation of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.  (Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards Program, 2009-2010)

SUBJECTS:     Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865.
                        Assassins.
                        Fugitives from justice.
                        Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Assassination.

 
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