

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Overview
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.
Top Cast

Will Patton
John Wilkes Booth (Voice)
Guy Gane
John Wilkes Booth
Jason Roberts
David Herold
Alexander Fedorchak
Young John Wilkes Booth

Chris Cooper
Himself (Narrator)
Terry Alford
Himself
David Blight
Himself
Key Film Crew
Production Stats
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