Such Devoted Sisters/Rules of Encounter/The Love Child/American Gothic-The Story of the Booth Tragedy

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Mystery
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Few episodes in American history continue to fascinate'as does the assassinatioji of Abraham Lincoln. Even today, a hundred and twenty-seven ^ears later, mysteries surround the event. What provoked John Wilkes Booth—a gifted, popular actor—to commit his desperate, infamous ac:? What was the meaning of his-iinal words—"Useless,,useless"? Gene Smith's American Gothic, be-, ginning on page^:477 of this volume, brings the historian's penetrating eye ,to this tragedy, and to the lives of the eccentric, charming, and strangely haunted members of the Booth family.
One sign of the event's continuing interest is the thousands of people who each year come to Washington, D.C., to retrace the steps of the conspirators. They go to Mary Surratt's boarding-house, where the plot was hatched. They stand in Ford's Theatre, staring in mute wonder at the stage onto which Booth leaped, crying, "Sic semper tyrannis," after delivering his fatal shot. On what... Tovább

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Mystery
That Won't Go Awav
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Few episodes in American history continue to fascinate'as does the assassinatioji of Abraham Lincoln. Even today, a hundred and twenty-seven ^ears later, mysteries surround the event. What provoked John Wilkes Booth—a gifted, popular actor—to commit his desperate, infamous ac:? What was the meaning of his-iinal words—"Useless,,useless"? Gene Smith's American Gothic, be-, ginning on page^:477 of this volume, brings the historian's penetrating eye ,to this tragedy, and to the lives of the eccentric, charming, and strangely haunted members of the Booth family.
One sign of the event's continuing interest is the thousands of people who each year come to Washington, D.C., to retrace the steps of the conspirators. They go to Mary Surratt's boarding-house, where the plot was hatched. They stand in Ford's Theatre, staring in mute wonder at the stage onto which Booth leaped, crying, "Sic semper tyrannis," after delivering his fatal shot. On what is now Highway 301 they can see the stone monument that marks the place where Booth died, shot by a Union soldier.
Or was he? Many people contend that he eluded his pursuers and actually ?ied thirty-eight years later, after living a quiet, unobtrusive Hfe in Enid, Oklahoma. If so, then who hes buried in Green Mounts Cemetery in Maryland?
The mysteries persist. What is the true story? What is fiction and rumor? Read American Gothic and decide for yourself.
—The Editors Vissza