The sound of the trapdoors falling beneath the four condemned conspirators in the plot to assassinate President Lincoln still reverberates today. Nearly 150 years after the fact the crime is still studied, debated and new details emerge. In minute detail left out of most histories, THE GALLOWS tells the story of the eight sentenced conspirators chronologically, from the moment President Johnson signed the execution order for four of the accused until the last conspirator was laid to rest more than forty years after the assassination.
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