TAKES FIVE; MICHAEL W. KAUFFMAN; Shedding new light on a president's death and a celebrity's life

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI) | Date: September 6, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

He is perhaps the most glittering villain in American history. When actor John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865, it was almost as if a modern president had been murdered by a major celebrity. In his book "American Brutus," Michael W. Kauffman challenges much of what is the conventional knowledge about Booth and America's first presidential assassination, including how Booth broke his leg; the guilt of physician Samuel Mudd, who set his leg, and Mary Surratt, in whose boarding house the conspirators met; the role of John Parker, the police officer accused ...

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