Other interesting facts that pepper the book are the connections with the Lincoln and Booth families.
- Robert Todd Lincoln (Lincoln's son) was a Union Officer who was shoved from a crowded railway platform only to rescued by John Wilkes Booth's brother, Edwin, who pulled him away from the train.
- Lincoln loved Shakespearean plays in which Edwin Booth often played the lead.
- Lincoln takes his final breath in a bed where John Wilkes Booth had slept; a room rented by Booth only three weeks earlier.
In the aftermath of Lincoln's death the co-conspirators are rounded up, John Wilkes Booth is killed and Mary Surratt becomes the only woman ever to be hanged by the U.S. government. Her story and trial was covered in Conspirator directed by Robert Redford.