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Amiri Baraka

Shipwreck on the Potomac Disaster in Pursuit of Lincoln's Killer ( Karen Stone-CH) bugle As the host of NPR’sBy Karen E. Stone They Didnt Need to be There It was a calm, moonless night in late April 1865. Robert E. Lee had surrendered. Abraham Lincoln was dead. Assassin John Wilkes Booth and accomplice David Herold, previously hiding in the swamps of Southern Maryland, had crossed the Potomac River to safety. The barge Black Diamond was anchored with the Potomac Flotilla near Blackistone Lighthouse, hoping to prevent that crossing and catch the perpetrators.