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• Why did Secretary of War Edwin Stanton deny President Lincoln the protection he requested at Ford’s Theatre?
• Why was Lincoln assigned a disreputable bodyguard who deserted his post before the assassination? • Why was Booth sure he only needed a one-shot derringer to kill Lincoln?
• Why were the only actual assassination attempts against the only two prominent men in the administration who opposed the brutal Reconstruction plan?
• How was the Ford’s Theatre Presidential Box modified before the event?
• Why did Washington telegraph wires shut down after the assassination?
• Why did Stanton take charge of the investigation instead of the AG?
• Why was Booth’s escape road the only road left unpatrolled?
• What did Booth tell Southerners his real reason was for leaving a card at Vice President Andrew Johnson’s residence?
• Why were soldiers closest to capturing Booth replaced by a select Washington detachment?
• Why was there no court-martial of the sergeant who shot Booth?
• Why were 43 sheets (86 pages) of Booth’s diary missing?
• Why were Booth’s accomplices denied a jury trial?
• Why were they continuously shackled, heads hooded, before being either hanged or sent to a remote island prison west of Key West?
• What close friend of John Wilkes Booth was also old friends with Stanton’s intelligence chief William Wood?
Find out in this new book! Softcover, 158 pages, #1028.
