Fortune's Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth gettysburg Along with other bonus materials

Along with other bonus materials and the original hour long film

believing that they would exert the greatest influence on the war’s outcome by fighting near the Confederate capital in Richmond

Part I features selected portions of Murr's book-length manuscript on Lincoln's youth

shut off even to those who worked closely with him

Fortune's Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth gettysburg Along with other bonus materialsby Terry Alford (Author) With a single shot from a pistol small enough to conceal in his hand, John Wilkes Booth catapulted into history on the night of April 14, 1865. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln stunned a nation that was just emerging from the chaos and calamity of the Civil War, and the president's untimely death altered the trajectory of postwar history. But to those who knew Booth, the event was even more shocking for no one