This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth (1865) is George Townsend's description of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and his murderer.

Townsend later became a respected writer. One of Townsend's most famous works is The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth, a book which was published in 1865 soon after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.