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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.
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- 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
Directed by Jacques Tourneur. 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. However, in 1903 a Mr. David E. George, while on his deathbed in Enid, Oklahoma, claimed to be John Wilkes Booth.
This short subject explores the possibility that John Wilkes Booth did not die in a fiery barn 11 days after he shot Abraham Lincoln. In 1903 a man named David E. George.said on his deathbed that he was Booth and that back in 1865 he killed the best man that ever lived. Many thought so in 1903, many might still think that today.
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.
The Man in the Barn 1937 11m Mystery & Thriller List Reviews A man claims to be John Wilkes Booth and that he survived the fire that supposedly killed him.
- Mystery & Thriller
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?
