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...final quarter of the book tracks Booth's escape to Virginia, using false names and hobbled by a broken leg, where federal troops eventually catch up to him. He dies while resisting arrest with the final words, "Useless?useless." Geary then wraps up his brief history with a survey of the remaining questions that still surround the events. For example, why did the government remove 18 pages from Booth's journal, and what became of them? Even such open-and-shut cases as Lincoln's murder seem to always have a bit of mystery about them...
...news delivered low key, go to Brokaw, or to ABC's Peter Jennings, who seems the most reflective of the three. In crises, Rather's highly effective quick, clipped delivery heightens the drama. There he is, facing a television screen, calling in Secretary Weinberger or Secretary Shultz, asking "in brief" for a comment on Libya. They oblige (ah, the power of the press!) and even though neither has much to say, the effect is theatrical. Rather is also adept at another device to give urgency to a breaking story. When someone like David Martin, CBS's able Pentagon correspondent, finishes...
...soon as the morning session ended, Secretary of State George Shultz hurriedly summoned five top American officials into "the bubble," a tiny secure room at the U.S. embassy in Reykjavik, to consider a reply. A brief session in the bubble with his advisers, followed by more discussions over a lunch of baked chicken, produced a revised set of talking points for the President to read at his afternoon session, ones that took into account Gorbachev's morning proposals and dwelt on the areas of potential agreement...
...later searchers cornered Hasenfus hiding in an abandoned shack. Though he was armed with a pistol and a knife, he offered no resistance, and was marched off to a Sandinista base camp. The following day he was helicoptered to Managua, where, unshaven and haggard, he made a brief statement to the press: "My name is Gene Hasenfus. I come from Marinette, Wis. I was captured yesterday in southern Nicaragua. Thank you." He was then whisked away to detention and interrogated at El Chipote prison. Captain Ricardo Wheelock, chief of army intelligence, proudly called Hasenfus the Nicaraguans' first U.S. "prisoner...
...time of that brief pilgrimage in 1964, Bob Dylan, younger than Sandburg by more than a half-century, had already made three record albums, answered about 40,000 questions from a growing legion of fans and skeptical press, and was reinventing American music. "You certainly look like an intense young man," Sandburg observed, a nice bit of folksy lowballing considering that Dylan, back then, burned like Blake's tiger. Bob gave Carl a copy of The Times They Are a-Changin 'and headed off down the road...