Avenging Lincoln's Death: The Trial Of John Wilkes Booth's Accomplices

Avenging Lincoln's Death dissects the trial of eight alleged accomplices of John Wilkes Booth, showing that the trial was unconstitutional because Congress never authorized trial by military commission and President Johnson exceeded his authority by appointing a military commission.

• | Author: Thomas J. Reed
• | Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 06, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 246 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 1611478294
• | ISBN-13: 9781611478297