Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination, a new book by Dr. Thomas Bogar, has done the impossible by examining the first American presidential assassination in a way that is fresh, shocking, and entirely new. The author's engrossing writing style is evident from the beginning of the first sentence of the preface: "Imagine for a moment that the president of the United States has just been murdered in your workplace by one of your most admired and charismatic colleagues..."
I sat down for a Q&A with Dr. Bogar, who shared some of the enduring myths and mysteries he discovered in eight years of extensive research focusing on the actors and stagehands at Ford's Theatre. The transcript is provided in part below.
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