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Film, Video They Have Killed Papa Dead!": The Road to Ford's Theatre, Abraham Lincoln's Murder and the Rage for Vengeance

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Title

  • They Have Killed Papa Dead!": The Road to Ford's Theatre, Abraham Lincoln's Murder and the Rage for Vengeance

Summary

  • The assassination of the 16th president is one of the singular events in American history, and historian Anthony Pitch uses primary source material to document and reveal previously unknown facts about Lincoln's death; the murder of his secretary of state, William Seward; and the events that led to the torturous incarceration of John Wilkes Booth's co-conspirators. According to Pitch, Lincoln was under threat of assassination from the time of his first inauguration, in 1861. Gen. Winfield Scott, in charge of military defenses in Washington, feared secessionists would kill Lincoln even before his inauguration. And six weeks before shooting Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, Booth was forcibly restrained from approaching the president as he walked through the rotunda of the Capitol to be sworn in for his second term. Pitch details the murder plots that were unsuccessful as well as the successful one by referencing hundred of sources. Most of his research was conducted at the Library of Congress.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Center for the Book, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2009-02-20.

Headings

  • -  African American History
  • -  Presidents
  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Education

Notes

  • -  Classification: Education.
  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Anthony Pitch.
  • -  Recorded on 2009-02-20.
  • -  Kids, Families.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688189

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Center For The Book. They Have Killed Papa Dead!": The Road to Ford's Theatre, Abraham Lincoln's Murder and the Rage for Vengeance. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -02-20, 2009. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688189/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Center For The Book, S. B. (2009) They Have Killed Papa Dead!": The Road to Ford's Theatre, Abraham Lincoln's Murder and the Rage for Vengeance. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -02-20. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688189/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Center For The Book. They Have Killed Papa Dead!": The Road to Ford's Theatre, Abraham Lincoln's Murder and the Rage for Vengeance. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -02-20, 2009. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688189/>.