Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever - In the spring of 1865, the bloody saga of America’s Civil War finally comes to an end. In the midst of the patriotic celebrations in Washington D.C., John Wilkes Booth—charismatic ladies’ man and impenitent racist—murders Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre. A furious manhunt ensues and Booth immediately becomes the country’s most wanted fugitive. Lafayette C. Baker, a smart but shifty New York detective and former Union spy, unravels the string of clues leading to Booth, while federal forces track his accomplices. A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln