Summary of Brad Meltzer's The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time

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#1 After assassinating President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth lived for another 40 years. It’s time to decode John Wilkes Booth.

#2 On April 14, 1865, President and Mrs. Lincoln made plans to attend the play Our American Cousin in Washington, DC. John Wilkes Booth, a handsome, well-known stage actor, made his own plans for the theater that night. He planned to assassinate Lincoln.

#3 When Lincoln was assassinated, his guard was outside the theater drinking with friends. Booth peered through the peephole and saw that the president was alone in the box. He shot Lincoln, then stabbed a military officer who tried to stop him as he leaped from the box to the stage.

#4 For decades, the family of John Wilkes Booth has claimed that he died in a barn. However, other relatives have stated that he actually lived for many years after the assassination.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822531222

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

After assassinating President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth lived for another 40 years. It’s time to decode John Wilkes Booth.

#2

On April 14, 1865, President and Mrs. Lincoln made plans to attend the play Our American Cousin in Washington, DC. John Wilkes Booth, a handsome, well-known stage actor, made his own plans for the theater that night. He planned to assassinate Lincoln.

#3

When Lincoln was assassinated, his guard was outside the theater drinking with friends. Booth peered through the peephole and saw that the president was alone in the box. He shot Lincoln, then stabbed a military officer who tried to stop him as he leaped from the box to the stage.

#4

For decades, the family of John Wilkes Booth has claimed that he died in a barn. However, other relatives have stated that he actually lived for many years after the assassination.

#5

The belief has always been that Booth was killed in Garrett’s barn two nights later by Union soldiers, but there are many who believe that he was never at Garrett’s barn and that if he was there, it was only briefly.

#6

The soldiers demand that Booth surrender. Two words: no way. For Booth, this is the performance of a lifetime. He will not leave the stage. The soldiers set fire to the back of the barn in an attempt to flush him out, but he hides inside.

#7

With the nation watching, there was no way Stanton could have done anything to close this case. And knowing that the country needed Lincoln’s killer brought to justice so that it could survive as a united country, did Stanton place a Booth look-alike at Garrett’s farm.

#8

The National Archives in Washington, DC, currently have