The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

90 mins | Documentary, History | Feb. 9, 2009

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.

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

90 mins | Documentary, History | Feb. 9, 2009

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers WGBH Educational Foundation
Original title The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Directors Barak Goodman
Writers Barak Goodman

Cast

Will Patton

as John Wilkes Booth (Voice)

Guy Gane

as John Wilkes Booth

Jason Roberts

as David Herold

Alexander Fedorchak

as Young John Wilkes Booth

Chris Cooper

as Himself (Narrator)

Terry Alford

as Himself

David Blight

as Himself