Shooting Lincoln

Author : Nicholas J.C. Pistor
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306824708

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Shooting Lincoln by Nicholas J.C. Pistor Pdf

They took the most memorable photographs of the Civil War. Now their long rivalry was about to climax with the spilled blood of an American president--an event that would usher in a new age of modern media. Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner were the new media moguls of their day. With their photographs they brought the Civil War -- and all of its terrible suffering -- into Northern living rooms. By the end of the war, they were locked in fierce competition. And when the biggest story of the century happened--the assassination of Abraham Lincoln--their paparazzi-like competition intensified. Brady, nearly blind and hoping to rekindle his wartime photographic magic, and Gardner, his former understudy, raced against each other to the theater where Lincoln was shot, to the autopsy table where Booth was identified, and to the gallows where the conspirators were hanged. Whoever could take the most sensational -- or ghastly -- photograph would achieve lasting camera-lens fame. Compelling and riveting, Shooting Lincoln tells the astonishing, behind-the-photographs story of these two media pioneers who raced to "shoot" the late president and the condemned conspirators. The photos they took electrified the country, fed America's growing appetite for tabloid-style sensationalism in the news, and built the media we know today.

Author : Timothy S. Good
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496801951

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We Saw Lincoln Shot by Timothy S. Good Pdf

On the evening of April 14,1865, 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 US history. Providing minute firsthand 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.

Author : Graeme Donald
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762775842

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Man Who Shot the Man Who Shot Lincoln by Graeme Donald Pdf

A revealing look at history’s most important also-rans, bit-players, and might-have-beens Most people know that Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald, but who shot John Wilkes Booth? The answer: Thomas Boston Corbett, who went mad instead of finding fame and fortune. We know about the great men whose actions changed the course of history, but what about the men whose actions affected those men? This is their book. Offbeat and engaging, The Man Who Shot the Man Who Shot Lincoln reveals the stories of forty-five of history’s most significant but little-known game-changers, including: - Pierre Basile, the crossbowman whose arrow hit Richard I - John Barry, the confederate who mistakenly shot Stonewall Jackson - Lee Duncan, the serviceman who rescued a puppy from the trenches of World War I and brought him home to America, where he became famous as Rin Tin Tin - Hanna Reitsch, Hitler’s personal pilot If you think you know your history, think again.

Author : Benjamin Franklin Cooling III
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810886230

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The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot by Benjamin Franklin Cooling III Pdf

The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot: The Fort Stevens Story recounts the story of President Abraham Lincoln’s role in the Battle of Fort Stevens in July 1864. This engagement stands apart in American history as the only time a sitting American president came under enemy fire while in office. In this new study of this overlooked moment in American history, Cooling poses a troubling question: What if Lincoln had been shot and killed during this short battle, nine months prior to his death by John Wilkes Booth’s hand in Ford's Theater? A potential pivotal moment in the Civil War, the Battle of Fort Stevens could have changed—with Lincoln's demise—the course of American history. The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot, however, is more than a meditation on an alternate history of the United States. It is also a close study of the attempt by Confederate general Jubal Early to capture Washington, DC, to remove Lincoln and the Union government from power, and to turn the tide of the Civil War in the South's favor. The dramatic events of this attempt to capture Washington—and the president with it—unfold in stunning detail as Cooling taps fresh documentary sources and offers a new interpretation of this story of the defense of the nation’s capital. Commemorating this largely forgotten and under-appreciated chapter in the study of Lincoln and the Civil War, The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot is a fascinating look at this potential turning point in American history.

Author : Michael Leavy
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439677605

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The Lincoln Funeral Train by Michael Leavy Pdf

The effective end of the American Civil War on April 9, 1865, had hardly sunk in when, only five days later, another disaster stunned the battered and bloodied nation. On the night of April 9, Pres. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. There would be time for vengeful thoughts later, but first the Great Emancipator was going to get a royal send-off. At the center of what would become a three-week national funeral was a spectacular train that would carry Lincoln's remains, and those of his deceased son, from Washington, DC, to Springfield, Illinois. "The Lincoln Special" steamed slowly out of spring mists, allowing thousands of mourners lining the tracks a lingering view. It was a logistics miracle; a romantic pageant of sorrow and wonder, carried off flawlessly. Through the tears, however, was a sense that America's identity had turned a corner and was about to enter a dynamic and hopeful future. Author of nine books, Michael Leavy is an avid Civil War and railroad historian. Leavy has searched through archives to locate rare photographs and new details and dispel some lingering myths surrounding this tragic but formative American event.

Author : Nicholas J. C. Pistor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Photojournalists
ISBN : 0306902370

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Shooting Lincoln by Nicholas J. C. Pistor Pdf

Describes how the deep rivalry between the Civil War eras most notable photographers led them in a paparazzi-like race to be the first to take the most sensational, ghastly photos of Abraham Lincoln after his assassination.

Author : David Phillips
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479782178

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Murph by David Phillips Pdf

Murph is a story about a man whose unthinking actions deeply affect people around him in ways he never imagines. It begins as a small story about self-pity, temptation, and a breakdown of moral and ethical boundaries but grows into an epic accounting of cause and effect that takes place in six countries on three continents, spanning forty years. It is ultimately a compilation of several stories, intertwined by actions and events, built on the intrigue of romance, war, kidnapping, theft, and murder.

Author : Lucius Eugene Chittenden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)
ISBN : PSU:000061206960

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Personal Reminiscences Including Lincoln and Others by Lucius Eugene Chittenden Pdf

Author : Francis L. Wellman
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664148537

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The Art of Cross-Examination by Francis L. Wellman Pdf

The Art of Cross-Examination by Francis L. Wellman is a standard read for trial lawyers and students describing how to effectively cross-examine eyewitnesses. A classic that is still in use today.

Author : Jan Young
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780557952748

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The Assassins by Jan Young Pdf

Forty-six historic tales of murder and mayhem on a global scale: This book contains true stories, authenticated through the use of both modern and contemporary sources. They range from the year 1337 BCE through 2006 CE, from the United States and Europe to the Mid-east and the Orient. The murderers range from incompetent to highly competent and from despicable to glorious. The victims were prominent politically and, in some cases, financially. Some deserved to die, most did not. All four assassinations of US Presidents are included, as are three attempted Presidential assassinations. Although the stories make interesting reading by themselves, the grouping of them in a single volume gives breadth and allows the reader to understand the scope of the assassination phenomenon, to see trends and to assess their value.

Author : Richard Nelson Current,University Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus Richard Nelson Current
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0282914307

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Lincoln and the First Shot (Classic Reprint) by Richard Nelson Current,University Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus Richard Nelson Current Pdf

Excerpt from Lincoln and the First Shot In 1846, having ordered an army into disputed ter ritory along the Rio Grande, James K. Polk asked Con gress for a declaration of war after the troops had been fired upon. War exists, he said, and by the act of Mexico herself. American blood has been shed upon American soil. Polk was the first president to be accused of de liberately bringing about an attack, or the semblance of an attack, in order to rouse the American people and lead them to war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Christopher Buckley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476749525

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But Enough About You by Christopher Buckley Pdf

An irreverent selection of essays by the best-selling author of Wry Martinis traces his literary friendships, family experiences and travels in such entries as "How to Teach Your Four-Year-Old to Ski," "A Short History of the Bug Zapper" and "The Art of Sacking."

Author : Jim Bishop
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061374876

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The Day Lincoln Was Shot by Jim Bishop Pdf

The Day Lincoln Was Shot is a gripping, minute-by-minute account of April 14, 1865: the day President Abraham Lincoln was tragically assassinated. It chronicles the movements of Lincoln and his assassin John Wilkes Booth during every movement of that fateful day. Author and journalist Jim Bishop has fashioned an unforgettable tale of tragedy, more gripping than fiction, more alive than any newspaper account. First published in 1955, The Day Lincoln Was Shot was a huge bestseller, and in 1998 it was made into a TNT movie, with Rob Morrow as Booth.

Author : Lori Cox Han,Tomislav Han
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781440863424

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Political Violence in America [2 volumes] [2 volumes] by Lori Cox Han,Tomislav Han Pdf

This multivolume encyclopedia surveys America's long and troubled history of political violence from the colonial era to the present, with a particular emphasis on factors driving political violence and intimidation in the United States in the 21st century. Americans like to think of their nation as one grounded in high-minded democratic ideals and peaceful transitions of power. In reality, though, American politics has been heavily laced with expressions of violence and intimidation since the nation's very inception, which saw a campaign of violent rebellion against British rule. Since then, America has endured the deaths of four presidents from assassination; a four-year civil war; racist attacks on civil rights activists and ordinary citizens; deadly clashes between protesting citizens and law enforcement; sustained campaigns of violence against marginalized populations seeking greater political or economic equality; politically motivated mass shootings; and, on January 6, 2021, the shocking spectacle of a politically motivated mob attack on the U.S. Capitol. How and why did these events transpire? What were the root causes? What factors are driving political violence and intimidation in America today? And are there changes that we could make to our country's political discourse that would reduce such outbreaks of bloodshed? This authoritative multivolume encyclopedia provides answers to all these questions and more.

Author : Stephen Spignesi
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781101585023

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Grover Cleveland's Rubber Jaw and Other Unusual, Unexpected, Unbelievable but All-True Facts About America's Presidents by Stephen Spignesi Pdf

From George Washington to Barack Obama, this collection of weird and wild—but true!—facts will show you a whole other side of our nation’s leaders: • Andrew Jackson was married to a bigamist. • Martin Van Buren wore pistols in the Senate chamber in case things got too rowdy. • Franklin Pierce ran over a woman with his horse while in office and was arrested, but was released when the police realized he was the president. • James Garfield could simultaneously write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other. • Dwight D. Eisenhower’s nickname for his staff driver was “Private Parts.” • Barack Obama can bench press 200 pounds.