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Information for this biography of John Wilkes Booth has come from many
sources. Theories surrounding the Lincoln assassination continue to change, and new
information on Booth’s early years occasionally surfaces. Sometimes trying to
separate facts from romance is difficult. The following list of titles is not inclusive of
the "best" sources of the assassination itself, but rather on the man Booth.
Concentrating on him and his family, not his infamous deed -- that is, not on the
oft-complex reasons why he did what he did -- I referred to works that most
thoroughly examine the psyche of the central character. These are listed by alphabetical
order: Bak, Richard  Day Lincoln Was Shot: An Illustrated Chronicle.
Bishop, Jim The Day Lincoln Was Shot. New York: Harper & Row, 1964.
Chamlee, Roy Z.  Lincoln's Assassins: A Complete Account of Their Capture, Trial,
& Punishment.
Clarke, Asia Booth The Unlocked Book. New York: Arno Press, 1971.
Furstwangler, Albert Assassin on Stage. Chicago & Urbana, IL: The University
of Illinois Press, 1991.
Gutman, Richard J.S. & Kellie O. John Wilkes Booth Himself. Dover, MA: Hired
Hand Press, 1979.
Kimmell, Stanley The Mad Booths of Maryland. New York: Dover Publications, 1969.
Reck, W. Emerson,  A. Lincoln: His Last 24 Hours
Smith, Gene  American Gothic; The Story of America's Legendary Theatrical
Family--Junius, Edwin, and John...
Weichmann, Lewis J. (Risvold, Floyd J., ed.) A True History of the Assassination of
Abraham Lincoln and of the Conspiracy Trial of 1865. New York: Alfred E.Knopf, Inc.,
1975.
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