Lincoln Assassination

By 1861, sharpshooters had fired at windows in the White House, and in 1863 a bullet pierced his stovepipe hat. His wartime and reconstruction policies earned him even more enemies, and none more fanatically resolved than the famously handsome actor-agitator John Wilkes Booth. New evidence fills in the missing pieces of this complex story, including efforts made by Booth's accomplices to murder Lincoln's entire cabinet.