1 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 1: Happy Saturday everyone. We have had a number of requests 2 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 1: coming lately for episodes on various people who were connected 3 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. We don't have full 4 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:16,600 Speaker 1: on biographies of all of those folks, but a lot 5 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 1: of the names that have come up are pulled together 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,479 Speaker 1: in this previous episode on the Booth conspiracy, so we 7 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 1: are sharing that one today. Yeah. This episode is from 8 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: previous hosts Sarah and Deblina, and it first came out 9 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 1: on February Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, 10 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: a production of I Heart Radios How Stuff Works. Hello, 11 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Sarah Dowdy and I'm 12 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 1: Deblina Chuckerboarding and around Christmas this year, listener Hillary sent 13 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 1: us the book Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowel, about the 14 00:00:55,280 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: assassinations of three U S presidents, Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley. 15 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: And before I started the book, I figured, of those three, 16 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: I'd probably know the most about Lincoln's assassination, at least 17 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:11,759 Speaker 1: the scene for its theater, the circumstances Lincoln shot point 18 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:14,839 Speaker 1: blank in the head, and the players involved. The actor 19 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 1: John Wilkes, Booth and his motley crew of conspirators, but 20 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 1: I hadn't realized the entire breadth of the attack. The 21 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,279 Speaker 1: attack on Lincoln was really just one part of three 22 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: planned assassinations that were supposed to go down that night. 23 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:33,399 Speaker 1: And I hadn't realized the intensiveness of the man hunt 24 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: for Booth either, or the strange, sad stories about peripheral 25 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 1: figures involved, like Booth's brother, the President's son, the Lincoln's 26 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:45,320 Speaker 1: theater guest the night of the assassination. It really proved 27 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 1: to be a more in depth and more fascinating story 28 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 1: than I had imagined. So in this podcast, we're going 29 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 1: to talk about what happened the night of April four, 30 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: eighteen sixty five, at Ford's Theater, but also some of 31 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: the events that happened long before that and long after. 32 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: And if you're a Lincoln buff, we hope that you 33 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 1: will get to hear your favorite weird detail or conspiracy 34 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: theory about this, and if you're not, then you're probably 35 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:12,079 Speaker 1: going to be in for some surprises. It's sometimes fascinating 36 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 1: to extend a story beyond the point that we're used 37 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: to hearing, which for most people is probably Booth jumping 38 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 1: over the railing of the President's Box and escaping. But 39 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 1: the first semi surprise of this podcast is going to 40 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 1: be that John Wilkes Booth, who is now of course 41 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 1: famous firstly as an assassin and secondly as an actor, 42 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 1: was really a pretty big star. I always kind of 43 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 1: imagined him as a middling actor in that fact was emphasized, 44 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 1: you know, just to make it all the stranger that 45 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: he was an assassin. He was, however, a member of 46 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 1: a great theatrical family, albeit kind of a lesser member, 47 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: but that's just because the other family members were so famous. 48 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 1: Booth had been born in Maryland in eighteen thirty eight. 49 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: He was the ninth of ten children of Genius Brutus Booth, 50 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: who was an English actor very famous in England who 51 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 1: had moved to the United States in eighteen twenty one. 52 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: Boost Senior was one of the most famous Shakespearean actors 53 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,920 Speaker 1: in the country, maybe second only to Edwin Forest. He 54 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 1: might remember from last year's Astor Place riot, and partly 55 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 1: to keep Junius Brutus from getting too wild on the 56 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,520 Speaker 1: road he had a drinking problem. His three sons got 57 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: into theater too, and the middle boy, Edwin, became a 58 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:31,799 Speaker 1: star to really rival his father. We're going to talk 59 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 1: about him a bit more later. The youngest. Meanwhile, John 60 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 1: Wilkes had a rockier start with his theatrical career until 61 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 1: he joined a Shakespearean company based in Richmond, Virginia. Yeah. 62 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 1: Once with that company, he toured the country, including the South, 63 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 1: and became celebrated for his good looks and athletic acting. 64 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: But the intensity of Booth's political opinions made him a 65 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 1: bit of an odd ball. He was extremely pro slavery, 66 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 1: anti Lincoln, and an ardent porter of the Confederacy. While 67 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 1: some historians suggest Booth served as a Confederate agent during 68 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 1: the war, the only thing stopping him from taking a 69 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 1: more active role for his cause was a promise that 70 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 1: he made for his mother so he wouldn't actually enlist 71 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 1: in the army. So by the autumn of eighteen sixty four, 72 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: Booth started making plans to kidnap President Lincoln, drawing in 73 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 1: other conspirators to meet at Mrs Mary Sarat's Washington, d c. 74 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: Boarding house, and Booth, for one, already had a pretty 75 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: good in with the President, despite his earlier flings with actresses, 76 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 1: including an incident reported by Thomas Lowry in America Civil 77 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 1: War when the actress Henrietta Irving tried to stab Booth 78 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:41,839 Speaker 1: in the chest, grazing his face and still, yes, he 79 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: had away with the ladies, I guess. But Booth's current 80 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: girlfriend was the daughter of an ardent abolitionist U S 81 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 1: Senator Lucy Hale. So with Lucy as his date and 82 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:55,279 Speaker 1: his ind to the Lincoln circle, Booth even got a 83 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:59,479 Speaker 1: prime seat at Lincoln's second inaugural address, bragging to a 84 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: friend that he had had a really great chance to 85 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,720 Speaker 1: kill the president. Then you can even see Booth in 86 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: the picture of Lincoln giving his address. The kidnapping plans 87 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:13,600 Speaker 1: ultimately kept falling through, though, and soon enough the motive 88 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 1: to stage a kidnapping in the first place disappeared. So 89 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:19,479 Speaker 1: the point of kidnapping instead of killing, had been to 90 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: exchange Lincoln for Confederate prisoners of war. But on April nine, 91 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 1: the war ended, so what are you gonna do? Ironically, though, 92 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:33,600 Speaker 1: it was Lincoln's speech on reconstruction, which took place just 93 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: a few days after that on the White House lawn 94 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: that really fired up Booth made him decide that he 95 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 1: didn't want to give up the plan of kidnapping. He 96 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: wanted to escalate it to something more. He had attended 97 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:49,599 Speaker 1: that speech with co conspirator Louis Powell and left it 98 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:53,599 Speaker 1: swearing that it would be Lincoln's last speech. So the 99 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 1: right opportunity for Booth came almost immediately when he read 100 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: in the paper that the President and Mrs Lincoln were 101 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,040 Speaker 1: you to attend a performance of Our American Cousin at 102 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 1: Ford's Theater in d C the night of April fourteen. So, 103 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: after months of plotting for more elaborate scenarios, he swung 104 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:13,599 Speaker 1: into action. He lined up his co conspirators into a 105 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 1: three pronged attack which was meant to cripple the government. Powell, 106 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 1: a former Confederate soldier, would assassinate the Secretary of State 107 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: William Seward with the help of David Harold. George at Serat, 108 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: a German immigrant and former boatman for Confederate spies, would 109 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 1: assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Booth himself would assassinate Lincoln. 110 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 1: And all these attacks would take place at approximately ten 111 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:40,920 Speaker 1: pm on that night. So the morning of the assassination, 112 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:44,360 Speaker 1: Booth was spotted with Lucy Hale, whose father was probably 113 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,720 Speaker 1: at that same time meeting with Lincoln about his new 114 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 1: appointment to Spain. Lucy Hill's father was looking to get 115 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 1: out of DC along with his daughter, get her away 116 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: from crazy actor Booth. But at about six pm that night, 117 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:01,239 Speaker 1: Booth entered Ford's Theater, which was pretty empty at that point, 118 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:04,719 Speaker 1: and tampered with the door to the President's box, fixing 119 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 1: it so that the outer door of the box could 120 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 1: be jammed from the inside. After that, he just had 121 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 1: hours to kill, you know, trying to pass his time. 122 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 1: The theater's conductor, William Withers Jr. Who was pretty psyched 123 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 1: to have the song he had composed performed for the 124 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 1: President that night, was also killing time and spotted Booth 125 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 1: at an actor's bar nearby the theater, and according to 126 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 1: a Richard Sloan article in American Heritage, Withers even heard 127 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: somebody joke quote, oh, Booth will never be as great 128 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 1: an actor as his father, which sounds like fighting words 129 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 1: most of the time with Booth. But Booth just replied, 130 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:45,559 Speaker 1: pretty coolly, quote, when I leave the stage for good, 131 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: I will be the most famous man in America. So 132 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 1: during the third act, Booth re entered the theater and 133 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 1: walked into the President's box. He waited for a line 134 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 1: in the play that he knew would get big laughs. 135 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 1: I mean, remember, he was an actor, so he would 136 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: have known that sort of thing. Then he bust into 137 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 1: the inner door and shot Lincoln in the back of 138 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 1: the head with a forty four caliber garranger. Booth had 139 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 1: been expecting General and Mrs Grant to also be in 140 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 1: the box, and that's what the papers had announced, so 141 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 1: that's pretty much what he thought was going to happen, 142 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 1: But the Grants had turned down the invite, and Booth 143 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 1: instead found the Union officer, Major Henry Rathbone and his 144 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 1: fiance Clara Harris. So Rathbone of course sees what has happened, 145 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 1: and he kind of tussles with Booth, getting slashed in 146 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:33,160 Speaker 1: the arm before Booth jumps over the boxes railing shouting 147 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:38,200 Speaker 1: seeks semper Tyrannus thus always to tyrants, and he caught 148 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 1: a spur on the American flag, landed on the stage below, 149 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 1: and broke his leg. From there, the conductor Withers ran 150 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: into him again. Withers, who had taken an underground passageway 151 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 1: around to the stage to question why his special song 152 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 1: that he had written kept getting pushed back. He heard 153 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 1: a pistol shot the thump and then found himself face 154 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 1: to face with Booth. A slashing man add booth to 155 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,559 Speaker 1: Booth managed to escape down the passage out to an 156 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: alley and then on horseback to Maryland. We're going to 157 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 1: pick up with him later. But what about the other conspirators, 158 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 1: because remember this was a three pronged attack. We know 159 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:17,560 Speaker 1: things must have not worked out quite according to plan, 160 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: because Johnson did go on to become president, he lived, 161 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:23,960 Speaker 1: and Seward went on to buy Alaska from Russia for 162 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 1: seven point two million dollars, something that was mocked at 163 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 1: the time called Seward's folly. But enough on that Atzerot, 164 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 1: who was commissioned to kill the vice president, just completely 165 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 1: chickened out. I think he went out drinking instead and 166 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 1: got nowhere near Johnson. Paolo did some pretty serious damage 167 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 1: to the Seward family. He arrived at their home under 168 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 1: the guise of a pharmacy delivery boy. Um. He went 169 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 1: into Seward's house where the Secretary of State was laid 170 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 1: up after a very serious carriage accident. He had broken 171 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:02,920 Speaker 1: an arm and his awe and uh that those injuries 172 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 1: required pretty serious banging to his face and head, which 173 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: is a key point here, So when Powell entered the 174 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: home and was trying to deliver his medicine, Seward's son Frederick, 175 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:26,680 Speaker 1: met him but wouldn't allow him upstairs to deliver the 176 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 1: items personally. So at that point Powell pulled out a 177 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:32,680 Speaker 1: gun tried to shoot Frederick, but found that his gun 178 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:36,560 Speaker 1: wouldn't fire and pistol whipped him instead. Then he charged 179 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 1: up the stairs started slashing Seward bedridden Seward with a 180 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:46,120 Speaker 1: bowie knife in front of Seward's daughter too, until finally 181 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 1: the military officer who had been assigned to Seward during 182 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 1: his convalescence grappled with Powell and uh Seward's other son 183 00:10:55,559 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 1: joined into um ended up getting injured a colleague Seward's 184 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 1: got injured to power really did some serious damage, but 185 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 1: did manage to escape. Nobody was killed in this incident. 186 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 1: Seward and his son's recovered um, but his wife died 187 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 1: just a few weeks after because of the double shock 188 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 1: of the carriage accident and then this violent, bloody attack 189 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 1: in her home. Just to return and kind of pick 190 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 1: up with the Lincoln portion of the story, Lincoln meanwhile, 191 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 1: is dying from head wound. The first doctor on the 192 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:30,800 Speaker 1: scene was Charles Saban Taft, who ordered Lincoln to be 193 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:34,200 Speaker 1: removed to the nearest home. The president was brought across 194 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: the street to the lodging house of William Peterson and 195 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:40,040 Speaker 1: placed diagonally across the bed because he was too tall 196 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: to just lie on it properly. While the surgeon General 197 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 1: cared for the president. Dr Taft stayed in attendance, journaling 198 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:49,959 Speaker 1: the next morning that he had held Lincoln's head almost 199 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 1: all throughout the night. He talked about how heavy it 200 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 1: was to just hold it there all night. The president 201 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 1: was pronounced dead at seven two am, and then the 202 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 1: Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton proclaimed, quote, now he 203 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,439 Speaker 1: belongs to the ages, one of the more famous quotes 204 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:11,200 Speaker 1: about Lincoln. In the president's pockets were a pocket knife, 205 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 1: two pairs of glasses, and a Confederate five dollar bill, 206 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:18,440 Speaker 1: which I think is the most unusual item there. Okay, 207 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:21,600 Speaker 1: so after the president dies, of course, the next day 208 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 1: was Easter Sunday, which was the absolute perfect time to 209 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:30,960 Speaker 1: compare Lincoln's death to Jesus's sacrifice from pulpits across the country. 210 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 1: So everybody is talking about Lincoln and everybody is talking 211 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 1: about his assassin. After an autopsy Lincoln Lane state at 212 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 1: the White House and the Capital before being sent on 213 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 1: a thirteen day train trip back to Springfield with plenty 214 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 1: of open casket viewings. Um just a side note here, 215 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:51,600 Speaker 1: Vale notes in her book that this was really great 216 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:55,720 Speaker 1: publicity for the new trend in embalming, seeing the president 217 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 1: so many days after he had been killed. Meanwhile, as 218 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 1: the President's body of traveling around the search for Booth 219 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 1: and his accomplices as heating up. It's the largest man 220 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:07,560 Speaker 1: hunt to that date, and it was helped along by 221 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:10,959 Speaker 1: the Secretary of Wars one hundred thousand dollar reward, which 222 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: incidentally also helped shore up the historical record because, according 223 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:18,560 Speaker 1: to a Smithsonian article by James Swanson, so many of 224 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:22,120 Speaker 1: Booth's trackers documented the experience because they were trying to 225 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 1: get a piece of the rewards, so a lot of 226 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:27,080 Speaker 1: them did. It was split up among many different people, 227 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:30,640 Speaker 1: but after fleeing forwards Theater, Booth had met up with 228 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 1: David Harold, who, if you remember, was supposed to be 229 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 1: on the Powell Seward assassination team. He had left Powell 230 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:41,720 Speaker 1: though behind, at the Seward House. Those two high tailed 231 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 1: it for the Maryland home of Dr. Samuel mud who 232 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 1: set Booth leg and then they spent five nights and 233 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 1: five days in the woods waiting to cross the Potomac 234 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:55,559 Speaker 1: into Virginia. Had a little help, though, yeah. A Confederate 235 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 1: agent named Thomas Jones brought them food and newspapers. And 236 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 1: it was a big disappointment when Booth read those papers. 237 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 1: People hated him. He thought that he would be considered 238 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 1: a hero, the destroyer of a tyrant, and he journaled 239 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:12,360 Speaker 1: all of these feelings, complaining that people were talking about 240 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 1: him as a quote common cutthroat. Once in Virginia, Booth 241 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 1: and Harold wound their way to the farm of Richard Garrett, 242 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,560 Speaker 1: where they stayed under assumed names. Though they must have 243 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 1: seemed like desperate men, the Garrets allowed them to sleep 244 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 1: in their tobacco barn, but actually locked them in at 245 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 1: night so that they wouldn't steal any horses. That night, 246 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 1: Lieutenant Edward Dougherty, in charge of the sixteenth New York Cavalry, 247 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 1: along with detectives Luther Baker and Everton Coner, tracked the 248 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 1: men to the farm. The Garrett's dog started barking at 249 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: the sound of horses, and so Booth and Harold of 250 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 1: course woke up. They tried to escape, but found themselves 251 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 1: locked in, and by the time they were trying to 252 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: kick out aboard, the farmhouse was surrounded, so old man 253 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 1: Garrett and his sons were pushed around a bit by 254 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:00,040 Speaker 1: the search party until they admitted where the men and 255 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:02,960 Speaker 1: were in the tobacco barn. One of the sons was 256 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 1: even forced to enter the barn and try to disarm Booth. 257 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 1: Nobody else wanted to go in. Booth basically told him 258 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 1: he sold me out, get out, or I'll kill you. 259 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 1: But despite having a whole cavalry, the law enforcement officers 260 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: really kind of dithered about what to do because they 261 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:21,800 Speaker 1: did have orders to bring back Booth alive. He was 262 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 1: of course wanted for questioning, but nobody wanted to get 263 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 1: killed either, and everybody fully expected that that would happen 264 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 1: if they had a face to face with the armed 265 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 1: and desperate Booth, So their solution was burned the barn. 266 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 1: Harold begged to be let out, and he eventually is 267 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 1: let out. Booth, on the other hand, poses a kind 268 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 1: of challenge to Baker, makes them a little proposition combat 269 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 1: on open ground. Booth against the cavalry just as long 270 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: as they back up from the barn door. He creepily 271 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:54,440 Speaker 1: mentions to Baker how honorable he's been the whole time. 272 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 1: He says, quote, Captain, I have had half a dozen 273 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 1: opportunities to shoot you, but I not so. At this point, 274 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:04,920 Speaker 1: Baker realizes, oh, yeah, I'm holding this candle, So he 275 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 1: loses that target. You can see him through the barn, 276 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 1: the cracks in the barn wall. Yeah, he gets rid 277 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 1: of that, but he declines Booth's offer. He says, quote, 278 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 1: we did not come here to fight you. We simply 279 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:18,800 Speaker 1: came to make you a prisoner. Booth reduces the demands 280 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 1: of his offer. At that point, he says that he'll 281 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 1: come out and fight if the men just back off 282 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:25,240 Speaker 1: from the door just a little bit. Give me a 283 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 1: chance for my life, he says. But that just was 284 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 1: not happening. So Booth says, well, my brave boys prepare 285 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 1: stretcher for me. But the way it went down was 286 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 1: actually more like a bonfire. They finally sent the bar 287 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 1: set the barn on fire. The barn goes up in 288 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 1: flames really fast, and in the panic of Booth trying 289 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 1: to get out, he gets shot by a sergeant Boston Corbett, 290 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 1: who as a sad note was possibly a mad hatter. 291 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 1: He did go insane, and it might have been because 292 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 1: of the mercury used in hat making. Back to Booth, 293 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:59,120 Speaker 1: though he was caught before he even hit the ground 294 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:02,680 Speaker 1: from getting shot by Boston Corbett, and he was presumed dead. 295 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: In fact, though he was paralyzed from the neck down. 296 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:08,280 Speaker 1: He could talk a little bit and move his eyes, 297 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:10,920 Speaker 1: but he couldn't swallow the water that was offered to him. 298 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:13,919 Speaker 1: He had to watch as Colonel Everton Conger checked his 299 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:17,960 Speaker 1: pockets and remove money and keys and tobacco in a compass. 300 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:21,199 Speaker 1: When Conger went into an inner pocket, he found the 301 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 1: diary Booth had been keeping, you know, lamenting the fact 302 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 1: he wasn't a national hero. Plus five photos of different ladies. 303 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:33,360 Speaker 1: One was a lesser known actress, two were pretty famous 304 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:36,879 Speaker 1: leading ladies of the day. One was a Subrette type 305 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:39,480 Speaker 1: actress who was married to a violinist, and then the 306 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:43,080 Speaker 1: last one was Lucy Hale. So I don't know if 307 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:45,639 Speaker 1: Lucy maybe had a surprise when she heard the news 308 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 1: he had five photos in his pocket, but his official 309 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 1: last words were tell mother, I die for my country. 310 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:56,919 Speaker 1: But he also had a few other last requests. He 311 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 1: kept on asking to be able to examine his lifeless hands. 312 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:02,879 Speaker 1: He begged the soldiers to kill him. It sounds like 313 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:07,199 Speaker 1: a really gruesome, really horrible death. He died by the 314 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 1: morning of April. Booth's body was secretly buried, but then 315 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 1: re entered a few years later at his family plot 316 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 1: in Baltimore. But the wild conspiracy theories began almost right away. 317 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:22,520 Speaker 1: The main one, of course, was that Booth didn't die. Instead, 318 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 1: as the theory goes, he escaped, took the name John 319 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: st Helen and went west. He told a lawyer in 320 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:33,400 Speaker 1: Texas that he was Booth, but left town in nineteen 321 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:36,359 Speaker 1: o three. Then the lawyer saw clipping that a David E. 322 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:40,199 Speaker 1: George committed suicide in Oklahoma and had confessed he was 323 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:44,200 Speaker 1: Booth before dying. The lawyer recognized the photo as that 324 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:48,520 Speaker 1: of none other than st Helen. George's body was mummified, 325 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 1: which I'm not sure quite why, and it toured freak 326 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 1: shows as Booth's body until at some point it went missing. 327 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:07,359 Speaker 1: So the Baltimore City Circuit Court has been petitioned even 328 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 1: fairly recently to have Booth's body exhumed, including by some 329 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 1: of Booth's own relatives, but they've declined for two reasons. One, 330 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:20,119 Speaker 1: there's really not much basis for this claim. It's probably 331 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:24,680 Speaker 1: Booth buried at the memorial. Secondly, though it would involve 332 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:27,840 Speaker 1: exhuming a lot of the other Booths in the family plot. 333 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 1: Almost all of those kids of Junius Brutus are buried there, 334 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 1: and it's not really clear where each individual family member 335 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:39,360 Speaker 1: is located. So now, but we at least kind of 336 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 1: no think we know what happened to Booth, what happened 337 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:44,480 Speaker 1: to the rest of his companions while they were also 338 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:48,119 Speaker 1: snatched up over the time Harold surrendered at the barn. 339 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:51,800 Speaker 1: As we mentioned, Powell, At Surat and the boarding house 340 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 1: owner Mary Surat were taken in and those four were 341 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 1: all found guilty of murder and sentence to hang. Saurat's 342 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: sentence is still kind of kind troversial, though, since while 343 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,240 Speaker 1: she definitely knew about the kidnapping plan, she may not 344 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 1: have known everything about the murder also found guilty and 345 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:11,120 Speaker 1: sentenced to prison, where Dr Mud, the guy who had 346 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:15,119 Speaker 1: set boost leg, Samuel Arnold, who had been in on 347 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:19,440 Speaker 1: the kidnapping plot but had dropped out earlier, and Michael O'Laughlin, 348 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:22,280 Speaker 1: who had also dropped out of the plot before it 349 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:26,439 Speaker 1: turned to a murderous one. And then finally Edmund Spangler, 350 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 1: who had worked at Ford's theater, got a six year sentence. 351 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:34,959 Speaker 1: There's another conspirator, though, Mary Sarratt's son, John Sarratt Jr. 352 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:39,160 Speaker 1: Who wasn't caught for a remarkable twenty months. I mean, 353 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:42,760 Speaker 1: consider again, this was the largest man hunt to date. 354 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:45,440 Speaker 1: They were all out looking for this guy. When he 355 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 1: finally was apprehended, he wasn't even convicted of a crime. 356 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:54,639 Speaker 1: So it's questionable whether John Sarot Jr. Was even in Washington, 357 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:56,920 Speaker 1: d c. The night of the assassination, and of course 358 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 1: he denied it. But after it he fled to Montreal, 359 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 1: where he was hidden by a priest for a while 360 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,879 Speaker 1: and eventually put on a boat to Liverpool, where he 361 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 1: made his way to Rome and, according to a Don 362 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 1: Bryson article in America's Civil War, actually enlisted in the 363 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:19,400 Speaker 1: Papal Infantry Guards there, which sounds pretty bizarre and surprising. 364 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:22,720 Speaker 1: But sarat finally revealed his identity. He had a hard 365 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 1: time keeping that information to himself, and the Vatican agreed 366 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:30,119 Speaker 1: to extradite him, but before that could actually happen. He 367 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:34,720 Speaker 1: escaped from six Papal soldiers, made his way to Naples, 368 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 1: and then got on a ship to Alexandria, Egypt, where 369 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:41,119 Speaker 1: he finally got off the ship and ran into the 370 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:44,879 Speaker 1: American authorities. So after they caught him, you know, the U. S. 371 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 1: District attorney desperately wanted to convict Surat, but the prosecution 372 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 1: was pretty weak and the trial ended in a hung jury. 373 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 1: An attempt to re indict him on the same charges 374 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 1: was eventually dismissed after this statute of limitations on those 375 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 1: charges had passed, So throughout went free. Kind of one 376 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:10,119 Speaker 1: of the stranger sides of the whole Lincoln conspiracy story. Okay, 377 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:12,919 Speaker 1: so what about some of the lesser known victims of 378 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 1: this assassination, including Lincoln's theater guests who we mentioned briefly. Well, 379 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 1: Major Henry Rathbone, who tried to stop Booth from escaping 380 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:24,879 Speaker 1: and was stabbed in the arm, was still blamed for 381 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 1: not stopping the killer. It started to drive him insane. 382 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 1: This is the guilt from this. Eventually, he and Clara 383 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 1: married and they had children and moved to Germany, but 384 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 1: he ended up shooting and killing her, and he was 385 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:39,199 Speaker 1: actually going to try to kill their children too, before 386 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:44,120 Speaker 1: a nanny stopped him. There is also one final twist 387 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 1: to this whole story, and it involves an old, seemingly 388 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:52,640 Speaker 1: nonsensical word game type statement, and that is, Booth saved 389 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 1: Lincoln's life. Okay, so we're not trying to make some 390 00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 1: sort of commentary on Lincoln's reputation through the ages or 391 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:03,119 Speaker 1: something have to do with his being assassinated. It's actually 392 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:06,199 Speaker 1: a fact Booth saved Lincoln's life, but it's a different 393 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 1: Booth and a different Lincoln. So it's pretty well known 394 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:14,119 Speaker 1: how much family tragedy Mrs Lincoln faced. Only one of 395 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:18,160 Speaker 1: her four sons lived to adulthood, so when her eldest son, Robert, 396 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 1: came of age to fight in the Civil War, Mrs Lincoln, 397 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:24,160 Speaker 1: having already lost two of her boys, refused to let 398 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 1: him go fight. The President was kind of embarrassed by it, 399 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:30,840 Speaker 1: but Robert instead went off to college and only joined 400 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 1: up the army in February eighteen sixty five, and even 401 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 1: then in a pretty cushy position. He was a member 402 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,840 Speaker 1: of General Grant's staff. He got to see Lee's surrender. 403 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,720 Speaker 1: He wasn't really in too much danger. At one point 404 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 1: in college, though, about eighteen sixty three or eighteen sixty four, 405 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,399 Speaker 1: somewhere in there, he was traveling from New York to 406 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:53,919 Speaker 1: d C. When his train stopped in Jersey City. Robert 407 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 1: later recalled that a crowd was standing on the platform 408 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 1: waiting to buy sleeping car places. When the train began 409 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:03,679 Speaker 1: to move, he somehow got knocked over and dropped in 410 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:07,000 Speaker 1: the gap between the platform and the train, so he 411 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,359 Speaker 1: couldn't move. He could have been crushed. I mean, it 412 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 1: sounds just like a horrifying, scary situation. Suddenly he felt 413 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 1: someone grab his collar and haul him up, and that 414 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:20,520 Speaker 1: person was Edwin Booth, who was, of course a super 415 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:23,119 Speaker 1: famous actor. It would be almost as if Brad Pitt 416 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 1: came in and saved your life. That was the comparison 417 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,720 Speaker 1: I was thinking of, if you suddenly are lifted out 418 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 1: of the train pit and you're looking at one of 419 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:35,400 Speaker 1: the most famous people of your day. Unlike his younger brother, though, 420 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:39,360 Speaker 1: Edwin Booth was a supporter of the Union in Lincoln 421 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,879 Speaker 1: and considerably more even tempered, he had um kind of 422 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,480 Speaker 1: gone off the rails earlier in life, and had ended 423 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:48,440 Speaker 1: up missing his wife's death in eighteen sixty three because 424 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 1: he was too drunk, so he had really sobered up 425 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:54,359 Speaker 1: and kind of had much more moderate opinions than some 426 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 1: members of his family. Um, he did learn whose life 427 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 1: he'd saved, that he'd saved the President's son, when he 428 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:03,119 Speaker 1: got a letter from a friend who was on Grant 429 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:06,119 Speaker 1: staff who had heard Robert Lincoln telling the story, as 430 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 1: anybody would like this super famous actor saved my life recently. 431 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 1: Isn't that an interesting story? So after John Wilkes Booth 432 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:18,399 Speaker 1: assassinated the President, Edwin Booth felt particularly devastated the loss 433 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,800 Speaker 1: of a leader he admired, the family, shame it caused, 434 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,359 Speaker 1: and fear that he'd never be able to work again. 435 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:27,600 Speaker 1: Booth did make a successful return to the stage in 436 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,840 Speaker 1: January eighteen sixty six and his signature role of Hamlet, 437 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 1: and went on to found the Players in New York 438 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:36,640 Speaker 1: City with Mark Twain and General Sherman, But the knowledge 439 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,639 Speaker 1: that he had helped save Lincoln helped get him through 440 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,520 Speaker 1: the worst months after the assassination. We do have one 441 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:46,640 Speaker 1: last spooky tidbit for you, though, relating to both Edwin 442 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:54,960 Speaker 1: Booth and Lincoln's assassination. During Edwin's funeral Ford's Theater collapsed. 443 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:58,640 Speaker 1: It wasn't rebuilt until the nineteen sixties, and now it's 444 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:11,439 Speaker 1: under a ration as a historical site. Thank you so 445 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 1: much for joining us on this Saturday. If you have 446 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 1: heard an email address or a Facebook you are l 447 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 1: or something similar over the course of today's episode, since 448 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 1: it is from the archive that might be out of date. 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