We Saw Lincoln Shot: One Hundred Eyewitness Accounts [Paperback]

Timothy S. Good (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 1996

On the evening of 14 April 1865 when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theatre, an entire audience was witness to the tragedy. From diaries, letters, depositions, affidavits, and periodicals, here is a collection of accounts from a variety of theatergoers - who by chance saw one of the truly pivotal events in U. S. history. Providing minute first-hand details recorded over a span of ninety years, We Saw Lincoln Shot explores a subject that will forever be debated. With a sharp focus upon the circumstances reported by one hundred actual witnesses, We Saw Lincoln Shot provides vivid documentation of a momentous evening and exposes errors that have been perpetuated as the assassination has been rendered into written histories.

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Collected for the first time, actual eyewitness reports of the Lincoln assassination

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi (February 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087805779X
• ISBN-13: 978-0878057795
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #103,760 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, February 21, 2001

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Valerie Gugala (Bartlett, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: We Saw Lincoln Shot: One Hundred Eyewitness Accounts (Hardcover)

Very comprehensive book- the only one out there like it. It is interesting to read what the people in the theatre that terrible night actually saw and heard. I learned some things I didn't know by reading this book, and would definately reccommend it to anyone interested in the Lincoln Assasanation.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Dramatic Historic Moment Captured, June 21, 2006

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Richard Salva "Host: 'LincolnReincarnation.co... (San Jose, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: We Saw Lincoln Shot: One Hundred Eyewitness Accounts (Paperback)

Good's book captures the immediacy of a dramatic and tragic moment in U.S. history: when John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theater in April 1865. Reading the accounts of eyewitnesses, we can all feel as if we were there--the lights are down, the actors are saying their lines, a gunshot pierces the air, a man leaps from the presidential balcony onto the stage, he yells something and waves a knife and disappears. Pandemonium ensues.

This book would make a good companion volume to James Swanson's Manhunt. Read them in chronological order (this book first) and be transported back 140 years.

Richard Salva--author of Soul Journey from Lincoln to Lindbergh [UNABRIDGED]

17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FANTASTIC BOOK...EVERY LINCOLN BUFF SHOULD READ IT !, February 12, 1999

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[e-mail](Tim's Grandfather) (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: We Saw Lincoln Shot: One Hundred Eyewitness Accounts (Paperback)

This is a wonderful, very informative book. It's the only written collection of eye witness accounts ever published on the Lincoln assasination. Every Lincoln buff needs to add this one to his or her library.