The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Plot Summary

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)