Author Archives: Thomas P. Lowry

On the front porch of Richard Garrett’s farmhouse near Bowling Green,Virginia,on April 26, 1865, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln was dying. John Wilkes Booth,paralyzed by a bullet that had shattered his cervical vertebrae and his spinal cord,lay in a pool of his own blood. As Colonel Everton Conger began to rifle through his pockets,the […]