When it comes to true stories, you have to be there to verify it yourself. I was there, and I can guarantee you that it was all real. A horror story that not only did I witness but that I also have recorded on video. But me and my friends, we lived that night. A night when everyone started disappearing, one after another, and in the end, only one remained. A night that none of us will never forget.

"The Legend of John Wilkes Booth is a story of how collective memories and popular histories collide with, clash, and sometimes overcome mainstream accounts of the past. It offers an alternate venue for studying the workings of Civil War memory in American culture and demonstrates how (and why) culture produced at the grassroots level can challenge the official version of events."--BOOK JACKET.