Kathryn Canavan

Author of Historic True Crime Stories

About Kathryn Canavan
Contact Kathryn at: mail@kathryncanavan.com.
  • True Crime Philadelphia: From America’s First Bank Robbery to the Real-Life Killers Who Inspired Boardwalk Empire
  • Lincoln’s Final Hours
  • Author Events

2021 Author Events

Lincoln’s Final Hours 2022 Events

Sunday, July 24 at 2 p.m. for Lincoln’s Final Hours talk with archival photos or 1 p.m. for a house tour followed by the 2 p.m. talk

Sunday, October 2 at 2 p.m. for The Forgotten Women of the Lincoln Assassination talk with archival photos or 1 p.m. for a house tour followed by the 2 p.m. talk

Visit the boyhood home of John Wilkes Booth for a presentation about the people who were front and center at Ford’s Theatre on assassination night — the comic who considered John Wilkes Booth his best friend, the young doctor who struggled to save the president, the senator’s daughter who vowed to marry Booth even at the foot of the scaffold. The talk will be illustrated with archival photos from Lincoln’s Final Hours and from private collections. Admission to the talk and a 1 p.m. tour of Tudor Hall is $5 cash for those 13 and older. The fee supports theĀ  JuniusĀ  B. Booth Society, a volunteer group that aids in the restoration and preservation of Tudor Hall, the home of Junius Booth and Edwin Booth, two of America’s most renowned 19th Century Shakespearean actors. The historic Gothic Revival cottage was built by carpenters from historic Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.

For more information: Call 443 619 0008 or go to http://spiritsoftudorhall.blogspot.com

Interview with Discovery Channel

Interview with PBS affiliate WHYY-TV

In the News

Click Here for How Do You Unfriend an Assassin? on History News Network.

Click here for Lincoln's Final Hours featured in the The Daily Beast.

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