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The Trial - The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators (Hardcover)
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The Trial - The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators (Hardcover)
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" With commentary by Terry Alford, Burrus Carnahan, Joan L.
Chaconis, Percy Martin, Betty Ownsbey, Edward Steers Jr., Thomas R.
Turner, and Laurie Verge On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth
assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. By April 26, eight of the
ten people eventually charged as accomplices in Lincoln's murder
were in custody. Booth was killed resisting capture and John
Surratt was in Canada, his whereabouts unknown to Federal
authorities. In the days that followed, President Johnson issued an
Executive Order directing that the persons charged with Lincoln's
murder stand trial before a military tribunal. During the fifty-day
trial, over three hundred and sixty witnesses gave testimony. Benn
Pitman, a recognized expert in the art of phonography (an early
form of shorthand), was awarded a government contract to produce a
true and accurate transcription of the testimony. Working with four
assistants, Pitman produced transcripts that served the general
public through daily releases to select members of the press as
well as to the prosecution and the defense. Pitman was given the
right to publish the transcriptions for public sale, and he
skillfully winnowed the 4,300 pages of transcription into a single
421-page volume. Copies of the original 1865 edition, as well as
subsequent reprints, are exceedingly rare. Here for the first time,
leading experts in the field lend their insight in a series of
commentaries that complement Pitman's published transcript-included
here in its entirety-exposing various perjuries, explaining
testimony that has escaped scholarly attention, and clarifying the
events surrounding the assassination as never before.
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