Satan Tempting Booth to the Murder of the President 1865 Barber_Canvas_Art McKinley at the helm and

McKinley at the helm and Hobart at his shoulder as the country eased toward an empire it had not yet named

A Victorian astrologer's plate that still carries the gravity of natural philosophy — half ephemeris

and burro trains threading the plaza beneath a Sangre de Cristo sky still pinking at dusk

and the studies of people who keep a bottle of rye on the shelf for the right occasion

Satan Tempting Booth to the Murder of the President 1865 Barber_Canvas_Art McKinley at the helm andSatan Tempting Booth to the Murder of the President 1865 renders the Ford's Theatre conspiracy as moral allegory a horned figure whispering at the actor's ear, the assassination cast not as politics but as the devil's own commission, ink and blood meeting on the page in the country's blackest April. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional