Download or read book When J Wilkes Booth Met Ben Hur written by William Russo and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time comes the full story of General Lew Wallace's role in the trial of conspirators led by John Wilkes Booth to murder President Abraham Lincoln.Wallace later won international fame for writing the classic BEN HUR: A TALE OF THE CHRIST. He also served as Governor of New Mexico and befriended Billy the Kid. Later in his career he was ambassador to Turkey. He also fancied himself a painter and his infamous watercolor called "The Conspirators" was his effort to depict Booth and his henchmen at the Inauguration of President Lincoln.Now comes the tale of how the painting came to be created and the nightmares and torment it gave Wallace.
Download or read book When Jack the Ripper Met Ben Hur written by William Russo and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1865 General Lew Wallace encounters the assassin John Wilkes Booth as a judge at the trial of his co-conspirators. In 1879 as Governor of the New Mexico Territory, he becomes embroiled in the capture of Billy the Kid, and in 1889 at the peak of his literary success, Wallace meets the most heinous of all his nemeses: Jack the Ripper.Shock for shock, the third volume in the Ben Hur trilogy brings together all elements of the previous stories-and gives the aging author of Ben Hur one last challenge to his moral integrity. Is Wallace facing a fraud and imposter? Has Jack the Ripper helped John Wilkes Booth escape capture? You may not want to believe it, but the author of Ben Hur met some of the most dangerous men of the 19th century. Author William Russo has told each story over the past 30 years: When J. Wilkes Booth Met Ben Hur, When Billy the Kid Met Ben Hur-and now the last volume of the trilogy-When Jack the Ripper Met Ben Hur.
Download or read book Avenging Lincoln s Death written by Thomas J. Reed and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-11-12 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avenging Lincoln’s Death: The Trial of John Wilkes Booth’s Accomplices is an examination of the 1865 military commission trial of eight alleged accomplices of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin who murdered President Abraham Lincoln. The book analyzes the trial transcript and other relevant evidence relating to the guilt of Booth’s alleged accomplices, as well as a careful application of basic constitutional law principles to the jurisdiction of the military commission and the fundamental fairness of the trial. The author found that the military commission trial was unconstitutional and unfair because Congress never authorized trial by military commission for these eight civilians. President Johnson exceeded the scope of his authority as commander in chief by ordering the accomplices to be tried by military commission. He failed to follow the Habeas Corpus Act of 1863 that required him to turn over the alleged accomplices to civilian authorities for prosecution. The accomplices were convicted on perjured testimony and the Government was allowed to drag in unrelated evidence of Confederate atrocities to poison the minds of the panel of officers.
Download or read book The Green Bag written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes index. 1 v.
Download or read book The Victorian Homefront written by Louise L. Stevenson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stevenson offers a concise and fascinating portrait of the intellectual lives of ordinary Americans from the Civil War through Reconstruction.
Download or read book The Very Witching Time of Night written by Gregory William Mank and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers unusual and often surprising areas of horror film history: (1) The harrowingly tragic life of Dracula's leading lady, Helen Chandler, as intimately remembered by her sister-in-law. (2) John Barrymore's 1931 horror vehicles Svengali and The Mad Genius, and their rejection by the public. (3) The disastrous shooting of 1933's Murders in the Zoo, perhaps the most racy of all Pre-Code horror films. (4) A candid interview with the son of legendary horror star Lionel Atwill. (5) The censorship battles of One More River, as waged by Frankenstein director James Whale. (6) The adventures (and misadventures) of Boris Karloff as a star at Warner Bros. (7) The stage and screen versions of the horror/comedy Arsenic and Old Lace. (8) Production diaries of the horror noirs Cat People and The Curse of the Cat People. (9) Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man revisited. (10) Horror propaganda: The production of Hitler's Madman. (11) Horror star John Carradine and the rise and fall of his Shakespearean Repertory Company. (12) The Shock! Theatre television phenomenon. And (13) A Tribute to Carl Laemmle, Jr., producer of the original Universal horror classics, including an interview with his lady friend of almost 40 years.
Download or read book Legends and Lies written by Dale L. Walker and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 1998-11-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All of history is mystery," Dale L. Walker says, and he proves his point in this lively, humorous--and rational--approach to the West's greatest puzzles. Did Davy Crockett, for example, go down swinging Ol' Betsy, defending the ramparts of the Alamo--or was he captured? Who is buried in Jesse James's grave? Was the man Pat Garrett shot that night really Billy the Kid? How did Black Bart, "the gentleman bandit," disappear? Did Sacajawea, the famous "Bird Woman" who scouted for Lewis and Clark, die twice? The possibilities unfold as Walker brings together little-known facts and the elusive connections that shed light on the biggest enigmas of the American West. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Download or read book Jokes Quotes and Other Assorted Things written by Stephen Motway and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.
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Download or read book Lincoln s Assassins written by James L. Swanson and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the 1865 military trial of eight people accused of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Lincoln and other high officials.
Download or read book The Crisis Volume 1 of 3 EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition written by Winston Churchill and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1962 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of a Yankee and a Southern lady during the Civil War and a study of the fierce political movements of the time, personified in representative characters including Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman.
Download or read book Shadow of Shiloh written by Gail Stephens and published by Indiana Historical Society. This book was released on 2010 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-two years after the battle of Shiloh, Lew Wallace returned to the battlefield, mapping the route of his April 1862 march. Ulysses S. Grant, Wallace's commander at Shiloh, expected Wallace and his Third Division to arrive early in the afternoon of April 6. Wallace and his men, however, did not arrive until nightfall, and in the aftermath of the bloodbath of Shiloh Grant attributed Wallace's late arrival to a failure to obey orders. By mapping the route of his march and proving how and where he had actually been that day, the sixty-seven-year-old Wallace hoped to remove the stigma of "Shiloh and its slanders." That did not happen. Shiloh still defines Wallace's military reputation, overshadowing the rest of his stellar military career and making it easy to forget that in April 1862 he was a rising military star, the youngest major general in the Union army. Wallace was devoted to the Union, but he was also pursuing glory, fame, and honor when he volunteered to serve in April 1861. In Shadow of Shiloh: Major General Lew Wallace in the Civil War, author Gail Stephens specifically addresses Wallace's military career and its place in the larger context of Civil War military history.
Download or read book J Wilkes Booth Or the National Tragedy an Original Tragedy in Five Acts written by William Alfred Luby and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book A True History of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and of the Conspiracy of 1865 written by Louis J. Weichmann and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis J. Weichmann, one of the principal witnesses at the trial of the conspirators in the assassination of President Lincoln, tells the story of the plotting that took place in the boarding house where Weichmann lived.
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