The Tall Target

Synopsis

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The Tall Target

is about a pre-inaugural assassination attempt on Abraham Lincoln. When a New York detective learns of the assassination plot, he informs superiors who refuse to believe it. The detective tosses his badge and resigns. Then he boards the New York to Washington train, which Lincoln rides incognito with protection from Allan Pinkerton and his agents. The detective doesn’t know whom to trust and the climax is a nail-biter.