Bill O’Reilly’s book Killing Lincoln goes into depth of the assassination of one of America’s greatest Presidents: Abraham Lincoln. He analyzes events leading up to and after the assassination as well as the roles played by different individuals surrounding Lincoln’s untimely death. In his writings, O’Reilly addresses the following key points:
1. The Civil War
2. Post War and Peace
3. Lincoln’s Assassination
4. The Hunt for Booth
Killing Lincoln is separated into four different parts, which include; Total War, The Ides of Death, The Long Good Friday, and The Chase. Each of the sections is divided into individual chapters with a date, place, and time in which the events occurred. Lincoln also begins with a note to readers, a prologue, and …show more content…
On Good Friday morning, Lincoln awoke a peaceful man. Meanwhile, Booth said goodbye to his toxic relationship with Lambert and requested a picture to remember her by. O’Reilly pans back to the white house and Mary Lincoln’s decision to see the one-night-only performance Our American Cousin in Ford’s. Lincoln agrees, not knowing it is the last play he will ever witness. Against the wishes of the Lincolns, Grant declines their offer to see the play, unknowingly sparing his own life. Booth’s cue to commence the first show was at 10:15 p.m. This was a key moment in the play when the crowd roars with laughter from a joke, giving Booth time to escape. Prepared, Booth had both two extra guns loaded and evidence linking all of his conspirators to the murder. Booth waits behind the presidential box, with Lincoln’s box guard nowhere in sight. Meanwhile, George Azerdot would knock on Vice President Andrew Johnson’s door and shoot him when he answered. Also, Lewis Powell would attempt to stab Secretary Steward, only to end up injuring Seward and his family severely. O’Reilly transfers back to the theatre to describe Lincoln’s downfall. Booth shot Lincoln in the head and the bullet, “entered through the occipital bone about one inch to the left of the median line”. (343) Booth jumps onto the stage and breaks his ankle in the process, half running and limping out of Ford’s. Dr. Charles Leale, the first doctor on the scene, assessed Lincoln and pronounced him alive but brain dead. Amidst the chaos, the President is moved to a nearby household where several doctors keep him under watch. Regretfully, there is nothing to be done to save Lincoln and the President dies at 7:22
1. The Civil War
2. Post War and Peace
3. Lincoln’s Assassination
4. The Hunt for Booth
Killing Lincoln is separated into four different parts, which include; Total War, The Ides of Death, The Long Good Friday, and The Chase. Each of the sections is divided into individual chapters with a date, place, and time in which the events occurred. Lincoln also begins with a note to readers, a prologue, and …show more content…
On Good Friday morning, Lincoln awoke a peaceful man. Meanwhile, Booth said goodbye to his toxic relationship with Lambert and requested a picture to remember her by. O’Reilly pans back to the white house and Mary Lincoln’s decision to see the one-night-only performance Our American Cousin in Ford’s. Lincoln agrees, not knowing it is the last play he will ever witness. Against the wishes of the Lincolns, Grant declines their offer to see the play, unknowingly sparing his own life. Booth’s cue to commence the first show was at 10:15 p.m. This was a key moment in the play when the crowd roars with laughter from a joke, giving Booth time to escape. Prepared, Booth had both two extra guns loaded and evidence linking all of his conspirators to the murder. Booth waits behind the presidential box, with Lincoln’s box guard nowhere in sight. Meanwhile, George Azerdot would knock on Vice President Andrew Johnson’s door and shoot him when he answered. Also, Lewis Powell would attempt to stab Secretary Steward, only to end up injuring Seward and his family severely. O’Reilly transfers back to the theatre to describe Lincoln’s downfall. Booth shot Lincoln in the head and the bullet, “entered through the occipital bone about one inch to the left of the median line”. (343) Booth jumps onto the stage and breaks his ankle in the process, half running and limping out of Ford’s. Dr. Charles Leale, the first doctor on the scene, assessed Lincoln and pronounced him alive but brain dead. Amidst the chaos, the President is moved to a nearby household where several doctors keep him under watch. Regretfully, there is nothing to be done to save Lincoln and the President dies at 7:22