The Lincoln Conspiracy

• Director: James L. Conway
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Political Thriller
• Release Year: 1977
• Country: US
• Run Time: 90 minutes

Plot

Scandalizing historians with its blithe disregard for the historical record, this American Civil War docudrama poses the theory that President Lincoln's Secretary of War, Edward Stanton, was behind a plot to kill him at Ford's Theater. His motive was his opposition to Lincoln's adamant refusal to allow the North to punish the South for its actions. The "official" assassination goes awry when another would-be assassin, the second-rate actor John Wilkes Booth, learns of the plot and decides to beat the government to the punch, for reasons of his own. In the movie, it is Stanton's assassin who is mistakenly captured and killed, rather than Booth. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Cast

Christopher Allport - Michael O'Laughlin; E.J. Andre - Rep. Thaddeus Stevens; Bruce Atkins - John Parker; Whit Bissell - Sen. John Conness; Charlie Briggs - Andrew Potter; Fred Buch - Capt. D.H. Gleason; Brad Crandall - Narrator; John Dehner - Col. Lafayette C. Baker; Bradford Dillman - John Wilkes Booth; Joe Dorsey - Lt. Edward P. Doherty; J. Don Ferguson - Lt. Luther Baker; Dan Fitzgerald - Sanford Conover; Ted Henning - Robert Campbell; Ben Jones - Samuel Arnold; Ken Kercheval - John Surratt; John A. MacKay - James Merritt; Robert Middleton - Edwin M. Stanton; Frank Schuller - Lt. Everton Conger; Sonny Shroyer - Lewis Paine; Wallace Wilkinson - Dr. Samuel Mudd; John Anderson - Abraham Lincoln; Paul Brown - Thomas Caldwell; Mark Harris - Luther Potter; Maurice Hunt - Rep. A.J. Rogers; Patrick Wright - Maj. Thomas Eckert; Fred Grandy - David Herold; Dick Callinan - Sen. Benjamin Wade; James Green; Len Wayland - Ward H. Lamon; Jerry Fleck - Edward Spangler; Albert B. Smith - Ferryman

Credit

William Cornford - Art Director, Cheryl Beasley - Costume Designer, James L. Conway - Director, Martin Dreffke - Editor, Bob Summers - Composer (Music Score), Don Perry - Musical Direction/Supervision, Bob Summers - Songwriter, Henning Schellerup - Cinematographer, Charles E. Sellier, Jr. - Producer, Charles C. Bennett - Set Designer, Charles E. Sellier, Jr. - Book Author, David W. Balsiger - Book Author

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Executive Action; JFK; The JFK Conspiracy; The Day Lincoln Was Shot