This story won first place in the Saturday Writer’s 2020 Anything for Children short fiction contest.After President Lincoln’s death, Booth fled to ignominy and the nation united in grief. Immerse your students in those events with this scripted reading. No event in our history was more important or more traumatic than the assassination of President Lincoln. By adding several fictional characters and some dialog to the events historians have detailed, I’ve created what I hope is a dynamic narrat