Murdering Mr. Lincoln: A New Detection of the 19th Century's Most Famous Crime (2004)

by Charles Higham

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Drawing on previously hidden documents, the author outlines the conspiracy behind Abraham Lincoln's assassination, pointing out the involvement of high level figures who used John Wilkes Booth as the instrument of the final act.

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2004

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Sir John Abbott (as John J. Abbott)

John A. Andrew (as John Albion Andrew)

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Barnum's American Museum, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA

Camp Douglas, Illinois, USA

Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., USA

Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, USA

Havana, Cuba

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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

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Epigraph

Crush the despots of the world in their very dens!
- George Nicholas Sanders

Yes! We're coming Abraham Lincoln
With curses loud and deep,
That will haunt you in your waking,
And disturb you in your sleep.
- Battle Hymn of the Sons of Liberty, 1864

I long ago made up my mind that if anybody wants to kill me, he will do it. If I wore a shirt of mail and kept myself surrounded by a body-guard, it would be all the same. There are a thousand ways to getting at a man if it is desired he should be killed.
- Abraham Lincoln to the writer Noah Brooks, N.D. (spring 1863)

I really believe, it would have been a happier day for us now, and my idolized husband would now have been living, if those, en masse holding office would have abhorred and sternly treated those Copperheads as I would have done.
- Mary Todd Lincoln to Alexander Williamson, June 15, 1865

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For Richard V. Palafox and Dorris Halsey

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Few Presidents have been as revered in memory as Abraham Lincoln; none, from his first inauguration, has been so continually threatened with death. (introduction)

In Richmond, Virginia, in the early months of 1864, almost three years from the inception of the Civil War, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, raised the colossal sum of five million dollars (equivalent to $57 million today) from the Confederate Congress for a Secret Service fund that would unofficially be operated by Judah P. Benjamin, his accomplished and ingenious Secretary of State.

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Drawing on previously hidden documents, the author outlines the conspiracy behind Abraham Lincoln's assassination, pointing out the involvement of high level figures who used John Wilkes Booth as the instrument of the final act.

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Higham claims that the conspirators against Lincoln led by John Wilkes Booth were connected to a vast network of interests: the Confederacy, Copperheads, Northern and Southern business interests and politicians, and even Union General George McClellan.

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