30 Jun 2017
Unconventional
An internet personality takes a journey through the small, obscure, and downright bizarre conventions happening every weekend around the country as he tries to fit in and find the common link that unites these communities.
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in on his assassin, the twenty-six-year-old actor, John Wilkes Booth. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln tracks the converging paths of the president and his killer, then tracks and draws connections between their last journeys, in the forms of Lincoln's funeral train route and Booth's desperate efforts to escape.
Top Billed Cast
Will Patton John Wilkes Booth (Voice)
Guy Gane John Wilkes Booth
Jason Roberts David Herold
Alexander Fedorchak Young John Wilkes Booth
Chris Cooper Himself (Narrator)
Terry Alford Himself
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