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The Rathbones – Lost and Found
One of the most tragic stories connected to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln is that of the Rathbones. As guests of the Lincoln’s that fateful night, Major Henry Rathbone and his fiancée, Clara Harris, had front row seats to the crime of the century. The aftermath of that encounter shaped the pair and ultimately culminated […]
Thoughts From Major Rathbone
When Booth’s dark deed was committed at Ford’s, no one had a closer seat to the action than the occupants of the theatre box. Mary Todd Lincoln, Clara Harris, and her fiancée and stepbrother Major Henry Rathbone, had the horror of watching the scene play out within arm’s length. Shortly after the crime, Henry Rathbone […]
A Second Manhunt Trailer
Today, February 12, 2024, is Abraham Lincoln’s 215th birthday. Likely in celebration of this day, the folks over at AppleTV+ have released a second trailer for their upcoming miniseries Manhunt, based on the book by James L. Swanson. Unlike the trailer released last week, this one is in the form of a featurette and contains […]
Manhunt Miniseries Trailer
AppleTV+ released its first trailer today for its upcoming miniseries based on the Lincoln assassination book, Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson. I have previously written about this new series that is set to debut on the streaming service on March 15. This trailer gives us our first real look into […]
“Who could have done this?” – Christmas, 1883
140 years ago today, on December 23, 1883, a tragedy eighteen years in the making occurred in Germany. For the prior nine months, an American couple, their three children, and their nanny had been living in the German city of Hanover. The couple was independently wealthy and often split their time between a home in […]
On This Day
Inspired by the work of Art Loux and his book John Wilkes Booth: Day By Day and my own love of day-to-day calendars, this page highlights at least one event relating to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln or the Booth family for each day of the year. In order to prevent an overload of 365+ […]
Some Upcoming Events 2023
A few interesting Lincoln assassination related events have popped up on the radar over the next couple of months that I wanted to share. I wish I lived near some of these so that I could attend them. August 25, 2023 Boston, Massachusetts Lincoln and Booth: Live Music Played to Film “The West End Museum […]
The Lincoln Assassination On This Day (August 9 – 22)
A couple of weeks ago on my Twitter account I did a “On This Day” or “OTD” tweet regarding one of the possible days where John Wilkes Booth recruited his childhood friends Samuel Arnold and Michael O’Laughlen into his plan to abduct President Lincoln. While Arnold later wrote his belief that this initial meeting, “was […]
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