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Questioning accepted history, this speculative drama asks if John Wilkes Booth didn't die by gunshot while trapped in a burning barn surrounded by troops just days after Lincoln's assassination, but rather escaped to live another 38 years.
- (236)
- Short, History, Mystery
- Jacques Tourneur
- 1937-11-20
Aug 6, 2013 · The Man in the Barn is a bizarre little short that is early conspiracy theory cinema from 1937, directed by the great Jacques Tourneur. A man known as David E. George confesses to murdering ...
- 10 min
- 4.8K
- galdurster
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After John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, he escaped to Maryland and was discovered hiding in a barn. After he refused to surrender, the barn was set afire and Booth died in the blaze.
utgard14 4 November 2014. MGM short, narrated by Carey Wilson, that explores the rumor that John Wilkes Booth did not die in that barn in 1865, but rather escaped and lived for many years. The story starts with the 1903 deathbed confession of a man named David E. George that he was Booth.
What happened to the man hiding out in the barn in Bowling Green, Virginia? Was he John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln? Was he shot by the police? Or did he commit suicide?
After John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, he escaped to Maryland and was discovered hiding in a barn. After he refused to surrender, the barn was set afire and Booth died in the…
