My thanks to the professional and accommodating staffs at the National Archives; Library of Congress; Folger Shakespeare Library; Historical Society of Washington, D.C.; Martin Luther King Memorial Library, Washington; Lauinger Memorial Library, Georgetown University; Enoch Pratt Free Public Library, Baltimore; Maryland Historical Society; Johns Hopkins University Library, Baltimore; Maryland State Archives, Annapolis; Maryland Court of Special Appeals Library, Annapolis; Surratt Society, Clinton, Maryland; Philadelphia Free Public Library; Civil War Library and Museum, Philadelphia; Pennsylvania Historical Society; U.S. Army Military History Library, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania; Princeton University Library; Delaware Historical Society; New Castle Historical Society; New York Public Library; New-York Historical Society; Houghton Library, Harvard University; Massachusetts Historical Society; Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University; Sterling Library, Yale University; Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford; John Hay Library, Brown University; Pike County Historical Society, Milford, Pennsylvania; University of Pennsylvania Library; Swarthmore College Library; Alderman Library, University of Virginia; Virginia State Library; Lewis Egerton Smoot Library at King George, Virginia; King George Historical Society; Rappahannock Library, Fredericksburg; Southern Maryland Room, College of Southern Maryland; Williamsburg Foundation Library, Williamsburg, Virginia; Perkins Library, Duke University; Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; DuPont Library, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee; Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tennessee; Chicago Historical Society; Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield; Lincoln National Life Foundation, Ft. Wayne, Indiana; Indiana Historical Society; Missouri Historical Society; Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock; University of Iowa Library, Iowa City; University of Oklahoma Library, Norman; Enid Public Library, Enid, Oklahoma; Granbury Public Library, Granbury, Texas; Harry A. Ransom Humanities Research Center, Library of the University of Texas at Austin; Huntington Library, San Marino, California; San Francisco Public Library; and all the county clerks, cemetery superintendents, and librarians who had to chase me away at closing time.
My thanks to all the many people who took the opportunity, while on my Booth Escape Route tours, to offer new leads and insights. Thanks to our drivers, especially Darwin Engle and Carol Brown.
I am especially indebted to Jim Donovan, who brought me into the world of publishing, and to Robert Loomis at Random House for his patience, faith, and expert guidance.
Finally, I thank my wife, Mary, and our children, Emily and Brian; my parents, Russell and JoAnn Kauffman; and my in-laws, Frank and Margery Patten. I am grateful for their support and understanding through some very challenging times.
MICHAEL W. KAUFFMAN has had a particular interest in Lincoln’s assassination for three decades. He has published numerous articles on the subject, and for nearly twenty years he has guided bus tours of Booth’s escape route. His research has unearthed a wealth of new material on the assassination, and his computer analysis of the government’s case files has brought to light many facts previously unnoticed in the literature. He has appeared on A&E, C-SPAN, the Discovery Channel, and the History Channel, and testified as an expert witness in the 1995 Booth exhumation hearings in Baltimore. He lives in Southern Maryland.
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Kauffman, Michael W.
American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln conspiracies / by Michael W. Kauffman.
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1. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809–1865—Assassination. 2. Booth, John Wilkes, 1838–1865. I. Title.
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