John Stauffer: Wanted Posters, Photography, and the Search for Lincoln’s Assassins
Description
In this episode of Houghton75, we speak with John Stauffer, Professor of English as well as African and African American Studies, about the wanted poster that was integral to finding and capturing the assassin (John Wilkes Booth) of President Lincoln and his conspirators. The poster was one of the first to have photographs, but those on Houghton’s copy aren’t quite what they seem. The poster is on display in our current exhibition, where it can be viewed through April 22, 2017. Find out more about the exhibition and Houghton Library’s 75th anniversary celebrations at http://houghton75.org/hist-75h
Transcript and detailed music notes: http://wp.me/p7SlKy-mo
Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s “The Union (Fantasy on Patriotic Airs)” played by Alan Marks, from
http://www.wyastone.co.uk/gottschalk-music-for-2-and-4-hands.html
“Booth Killed Lincoln” sung by Bascom Lamar Lunsford from the Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200197130/
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