![]() ![]() ) conjures up an exhausted yet jubilant nation ruptured by grief, stunned by tragedy and hell-bent on revenge. With great power, passion and at a thrilling, breakneck pace, Swanson ( Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial and Execution Now, by God, I'll put him through." On April 14, Booth did just that. ![]() Hearing Lincoln's April 10 victory speech, famed actor and Confederate die-hard John Wilkes Booth turned to a friend and remarked with seething hatred, "That means nigger citizenship. In the early days of April 1865, with the bloody war to preserve the union finished, Swanson tells us, Abraham Lincoln was "jubilant." Elsewhere in Washington, the other player in the coming drama of the president's assassination was miserable. ![]()
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