Sarah Vowells Assassination Vacation book is based on the true events of the assassinations of Presidents: Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley. This book covers all areas of these three assassinations including the three assassins: Booth, Guiteau , and Czolgosz. Though the book starts at Fords theater at a play, Sarah Vowell says she didn't go to the play to actually watch it. She went there to stand in the same theater that Lincoln had been assassinated in ,and although she does point out that technically she wasn't in the same theater because it was restored, she was still excited. At this point we would be at the beginning of a road trip that Sarah Vowell would drag her friends and family all around the country from Buffalo to Alaska - Washington