My assertion that many tourists who come to Ford’s Theatre overlook Booth’s pocket compass is based on many hours of personal observations I conducted in the museum on a number of days. Likewise, my assertion about the popularity of Booth’s Deringer pistol is based on many personal observations of museum visitors while they viewed, and talked about, the murder weapon, and also Booth’s other firearms and knives.
About the Author
James Swanson, an author and attorney, was born on Lincoln’s birthday and has studied and collected books, documents, art and artifacts connected with Abraham Lincoln’s life and death since he was ten years old. At the Cato Institute, he is a senior fellow in Constitutional studies and editor in chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. He has written for the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, George, Playboy, American Heritage and other publications, and is the co-author of Lincoln’s Assasins, a coffee-table book on the President’s assassination.
Credits
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Copyright
All interior art courtesy of private collection except: pp. 56, 69, and 377 courtesy of collections of the Seward House, Auburn, New York; pp. 144 and 386 courtesy of the Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana; p. 361 (bottom) courtesy of National Archives.
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