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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Feb 9, 2009
1h 30m
★ 4.5

Overview

Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in on his assassin, the twenty-six-year-old actor, John Wilkes Booth. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln tracks the converging paths of the president and his killer, then tracks and draws connections between their last journeys, in the forms of Lincoln's funeral train route and Booth's desperate efforts to escape.

Genres

Documentary
History

Production Companies

GBH

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Cast

Will Patton

John Wilkes Booth (Voice)

Will Patton

Guy Gane

John Wilkes Booth

Guy Gane

Jason Roberts

David Herold

Jason Roberts

Alexander Fedorchak

Young John Wilkes Booth

Alexander Fedorchak

Chris Cooper

Himself (Narrator)

Chris Cooper

Terry Alford

Himself

Terry Alford

David Blight

Himself

David Blight

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