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    This 3 sentence summary provides the essential information from the document: Booth originally planned to kidnap President Lincoln but changed his plan to assassinate him, persuading friends to help with the escape. After Lincoln was killed, a frantic hour-by-hour search began as Booth tried to evade capture while encountering many during his terrifying chase through Washington D.C., Maryland swamps, and Virginia forests. The book Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson details these events surrounding Booth's assassination of President Lincoln and subsequent manhunt.

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    This 3 sentence summary provides the essential information from the document: Booth originally planned to kidnap President Lincoln but changed his plan to assassinate him, persuading friends to help with the escape. After Lincoln was killed, a frantic hour-by-hour search began as Booth tried to evade capture while encountering many during his terrifying chase through Washington D.C., Maryland swamps, and Virginia forests. The book Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson details these events surrounding Booth's assassination of President Lincoln and subsequent manhunt.

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    Chasing Lincolns Killer

    by James L. Swanson
    Booktalk!
    As President Abraham Lincoln
    delivers victory speeches in 1865,
    an angry John Wilkes Booth begins
    making plans. His original one is to
    kidnap Lincoln and hold him hostage.
    When that fails, Booth hatches an
    assassination plot. But he must
    persuade friends and sympathizers
    to help plan his escape and ways to
    evade capture.
    After Lincoln is killed, an hour-byhour search begins as many people
    encounter Booth as he tries to
    escape. A terrifying chase through
    Washington, D.C. streets, Maryland
    swamps, and Virginia forests begins!

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