The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Overview

Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in on his assassin, the twenty-six-year-old actor, John Wilkes Booth. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln tracks the converging paths of the president and his killer, then tracks and draws connections between their last journeys, in the forms of Lincoln's funeral train route and Booth's desperate efforts to escape.

Directed by Barak Goodman

Top cast

Will Patton

John Wilkes Booth (Voice)

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Guy Gane

John Wilkes Booth

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Jason Roberts

David Herold

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Alexander Fedorchak

Young John Wilkes Booth

Chris Cooper

Himself (Narrator)

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Terry Alford

Himself

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David Blight

Himself

Details