Hey guys, welcome back to the Conspiracy Podcast. What’s popping? Hope everybody’s doing well. We do have a sick host out. Uh Jorge is sick right now. He’s gone. Feeble immune system. I know. Vetic. He’s [bleep] He’s fired. But we do have some fillers, so say hello. Hey, it’s Katie. Hey guys, we’re an eclectic podcast. What are you going to say? Yeah, that’s right. We’re, you know, we’re we’re very equal opportunity. Mhm. White, black, Mexican, the whole thing. Women, women, men, the whole thing. Yeah, exactly. Uh, we’ve been working on this series for a long time and a lot of you guys know story, but here’s the I mean, I I would I would beg to differ that a lot of Well, I guess based on our fan base, they probably do, but most of the new generation don’t know any history whatsoever, which is super sad.

They don’t know [bleep] It’s kind of true. It’s kind of true. It is true. It’s 100% true. Also, I got some questions when I was doing the research. They were like, “Well, why are we going to do this? because what does it have to do with conspiracies? And after doing all of this study and documentaries and movies and shows and books, etc. Uh I actually consider it one of the first conspiracies, legitimate conspiracies of America, the the the original American conspiracy. Yeah. And and you’ll go through it and you’ll see that actually people were hanged and they were called the conspirators of the Lincoln assassination.

Well, the true definition of conspiracy. Yeah. Literally. Yeah. So, this is all about Lincoln’s assassination, uh, Booth Serat, uh, all these things, and the manhunt, which was considered one of the greatest man, I don’t want to use the word the [bleep] blood hounds out there. Yeah. Yeah. And, uh, most people don’t know this, but he killed Lincoln and then he was on the run for 12 days. Oh, I thought he I thought he got caught like No. Straight up right there. Yeah. And they kept letting him slip through their fingers, too. Right. Oh my god. Sean’s gonna love this because it’s non-stop negligence. They’re like, “Let’s just have a quick drink.

No one’s watching.” Yeah. You know how we’ve done these these episodes? We did JFK, RFK, MLK, all that sort of thing. There’s just rampant negligence everywhere. Yes. And there’s just one thing after another of negligence that leads to this story blowing up. And you’re going to see in this like it should have never happened actually. Like it probably should have never happened. Exactly. So, we’re going to just kind of jump through it. Okay. Here we go. On the night of April 14th, 1865, just days after the Civil War was effectively ended, President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head by actor John Wils Booth while watching a play at Ford’s Theater in DC.

This was the first assassination of a US president. And it was not a random act or a random lone gunman that we all hear those those words. It was a broad conspiracy. And we have proven facts that it was a conspiracy. And like I said earlier, I consider it one of the first conspiracies of America. And for all of you don’t know, because we’ve defined this, a conspiracy is two or more people getting together to try conspiring to commit a crime. That’s right. That’s literally what a conspiracy is. That’s right. Uh their goal was to decapitate the union government. So weeks earlier, we won. Or we I I don’t say we.

What is we? Whose goal? Well, okay. So, I guess the the South. So, so this conspiracy was to topple the government after the South lost. So, civil war, right? Yes. Civil war ends, we won, etc. And we’ll go through the whole story, but it’s that’s the conspiracy is that the South created a plot or they they plotted to take out the Union government. Okay. Because they refused to lose. Okay. Yeah. What unfolded was one of the most dramatic manhunts in American history. A 12-day chase to track down Lincoln’s killers and a trial that ended with four of those conspirators actually hung by the US government.

And not not only that, but it was the first woman ever hanged or hung hung in American history. Damn. That’s why why I don’t know why. Why did where did that come from? I want to know where like where are they? Like we’re going to hang them. We’re not going to shoot them. They had guns. Okay. So, this series that we’re going to do is going to chronicle the full story of the Lincoln conspiracy from the origins to the climax and the aftermath. We’re going to explore how Booth plotted and it evolved. Originally, it was a kidnapping. Started off and they’re like, “Yeah, went went south.” Lincoln’s like, “Fuck off.” Not going anywhere.

And then it it turned into killing the top uh people of the government because they lost the war or because the war was over. And so then they kind of were like, “Okay, we’re going to bump things up.” Yeah. Yeah. We’re going to one up you. Yeah. We’re going to live stream. Like too late though. They already won. I know. It was pretty silly. I know. Well, well, I mean, not to them. Yeah. They’re live, Katie. They’re live. Along the way, we’re going to also uncover lesserk known facts such as Booth being extremely racist. Um, and how Secretary Seard was attacked, but they failed to kill him.

Yeah, he like killed them instead like a [bleep] legend. No. Well, you know, I mean, yeah, we’ll go into it more, but but ba basically what happened and like I said, we’re going to go into it more, but it was a planned a coordinated attack where the Secretary of State was to be killed. The vice president was to be killed and the president was to be killed. All the elites, the top of the government. Yeah. So, it wasn’t obviously it’s not just a random dude going he’s like, you know, it it was okay, you kill this guy, you kill that guy, you kill this guy, and then uh and then get the Confederates in basically.

Yeah. All right. Okay. Got it. Tracking. That was I was say tracking. Tracking. Now uh before we start people go people have asked me a lot um about booth you know and usually we go into the history of Abe Lincoln or the history of John Wils Booth but I decided not to do that this time because the story is already kind of fast forwarded you know to where it is. Uh but I did I did do some research and it was how famous was John Wils Booth. Yeah. Was he like Brad Pitt actor or was he like So he was an actor but at the time obviously there was no film but he was like a theater theater actor.

He was all stage acting. Yeah. So by the early early 1860s John Wils Booth was one of the most famous actors in America. He was often called the the most handsome man in America. Oh wow. Widely recognized in the East and the Midwest and he was known for his intense athletic andor stunt performances and doing Shakespearean roles. Oh, I had no idea this guy was a dude. Yeah. Like he was he was the man. A dude. Yeah. Yeah. I thought I thought you were I thought you were saying he was a dude. I’m like, “Well, his name is John.” No, no, no, no. He was like a thing.

Like a [bleep] person. I thought he was just a random random. Yeah. I thought he was a rando, too. Uh so now what’s interesting too is that he wasn’t the top box office guy, but his brother and dad were. Um, so it’s like the Scarsgards or the What are other examples of like families that are famous? Um, the Jane Fonda. Yes, the Fondas. Uh, what’s the other one? The Ailio and and Charlie Sheen and Martin. Dennis Quaid. Dennis Quaid, Randy Quaid. Um, you know, that’s so he is actor. Yeah. In the boys. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So Edwin Booth which was uh his brother was considered the greatest actor of the 19th century.

So his brother was more famous than him. He was considered the Marlon Brando. So this guy but his brother was right. Yeah. Um but then I did something interesting and uh I put into chat ch and I said give me an equivalent actor present day to this dude to this dude. And it spit out uh Tom Hson. Hilson. Okay. Uh Loki. Oh yeah. He’s great. He’s [bleep] or Adam Driver. Okay. I like that. Do you know what I mean? So these are not like again they’re not like Tom Cruz, but they’re but they’re known for being like like uh they they have super range. They can play any role like they and they would be recognized but not by every human.

Not by everybody, you know. Yeah. Taylor, Taylor and I are on the side talking about how talking about they wish Adam would drive them. Unattractive, but somehow super hot. He’s so ugly, but he’s so [bleep] hot. Yeah, he’s a good looking guy. He’s uh he’s uh Rio. Wait, Kylo Ren. Kylo Ren in the new Star Wars. He’s in He’s a great actor, but I think Chat GPT was like saying it’s he’s a very intense actor. He’s very They’re not going to be like Denzel Washington. Yeah. Yeah. But no, but and it brought up the point which is it’s not Denzel, it’s not Tom Cruz, it’s not Brad Pitt, it’s the next level down, but you’re still a famous dude.

You’re still Alist, but you’re not like you’re not like Does that make sense? So like anyways, it’s an interesting Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. The conspiracy to kill Lincoln was born from the bitter final days of the Civil War. By early April 1865, the Confederacy was collapsing. um the Confederate capital of Richmond fell on April 2nd. Uh Roberty Ey Lee surrendered the army of Northern Virginia uh Appamatics. Uh that was a famous surrender where they didn’t um they actually didn’t have a white flag to surrender. So they used a bath towel. It was like a side. Yeah. Yeah. For John Wils Booth. He was a 26-year-old Maryland-born actor and he was extreme Confederate sympathizer.

These Union victories were a source of rage and despair for Booth was not only his fervent belief in the Confederate cause but also an outrageous racist and he despised Abe Lincoln. In a letter in 1864, Booth wrote, “This country was formed for the white, not for the black man.” What a [bleep] that’s like meanwhile you took it from the brown man. Yeah. And now it’s it’s only for the white man. And he called slavery one of the greatest blessings God ever bestowed upon a favored nation. Wow. What a [bleep] psycho. Gross. No wonder he was an A-list. He saw Lincoln. Well, also there’s rumors that Lincoln was a fan of his as an actor.

Oh, just an interesting just to fuel just to fuel the fire. You like see him in there like [bleep] No, he saw Lincoln, who had emancipated the slaves and preserved the Union, as a tyrant, destroying Booth’s ideal vision of southern society built on white supremacy and on honor. Don’t you love it how your beliefs can like skew reality so much? Like, he’s a tyrant. You’re like, do you know what a tyrant means? Like the definition of a tyrant, it’s not like some like supreme leader. But um from his view it was like it was a tyrant of telling the southern states how to oh how to live their liv how to how to operate their state right because remember like if you go back in history you go okay the US constitution gave the powers to the state so it was like the state is in charge the federal government shouldn’t control what the state full oversight over the state so at this point though Lincoln was like you know [bleep] off yeah it’s kind of like I’m going to give you all the power, but you’re abusing your power by using slavery.

So then what do you do? How do you solve the slave problem? You go to war. Yeah. And you make it a federal issue. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Anyways, it’s a much longer Well, I mean there get you you see that nowadays even like with with various things where it’s like against federal law, but state law approves it and like there’s it gets all like the back and forth [bleep] Yeah. Booth’s hatred for Lincoln intensified just after the war ended on April 11th, 1865. Lincoln gave a speech at the White House outlining his plans for reunification and even suggesting voting rights for black veterans. So, at the time, black people could not vote.

Neither could women. But in his speech, he implied, “Hey, they fought for us, died like, so how about we give veterans the right to vote?” Yeah. So, not all black people. This is not all black people. They’re still super progressive. Yes, exactly. Like ultra progressive view. But Booth raged about this. When he heard the president endorse granting suffrage to some African-Americans, he was insensed. And I quote, Booth said that means nword citizenship. By God, that’s the last speech he’ll ever make. And he was actually at the speech. And there’s a photo of Lincoln giving the speech. And you can see Booth in in the background.

It’s a wild photo. You should you should look it up, dude. I can definitely I can see I can see Booth like being the guy who created like slam poetry. I can see like he’s like so mad. He’s like I don’t know what that is either. What is that? I don’t remember slam poetry. It’s the worst. 2005 or something. What is it? It was like you would go it was like there were um instead of going to like a comedy club, you’d go to a club and then and have like it was almost like with a cigarette and like a coffee and like anger poetry like Yeah.

And they’re like Yeah. They’re like And it just doesn’t make any It’s not even like real poetry. It’s just like them like pissed. She stole my heart and my cat. I know. Literally, whoa man literally can imagine him like god damn it. In case anybody didn’t know, that’s from So So You Married an Axe Murderer. Saturday morning watching cartoons. I want to be Betty’s Barney. Yes. Oh man. Exactly. That is slam poetry. That’s exactly what it is. Sorry. Uh he vowed revenge. And this this moment is often cited as the point when Booth shifted his plans from kidnapping to murder to assassination. Yeah, that’s right.

Um what a psycho. The actor could not fathom a world in which former slaves shared equal rights, and he decided Lincoln must die for his tyranny. Booth fancied himself as a hero in a grand drama. And he often referred to himself as Brutus. It too brute. That’s right. Who killed Caesar? Who killed Caesar in order to save Rome from tyranny. You know what I mean? You see the you see the the correlation of the actor who’s a stage actor. Yeah. Of course, he’s like, “Yes, this is who I am.” Yeah. Uh but it’s important to note that Lincoln’s assassination was not just an isolated impulse of which, for example, some say that JFK was an isolated impulse where he’s like, I have a shot or I have a chance to take him out.

I’m going to take him out. Or uh MLK where it’s like, oh my god, he’s in the hotel next to me. I’m going to take a shot. It was a planned coordinated effort. For months, Booth had been plotting some action against Lincoln’s government. Initially in he envisioned the kidnapping and and as a hostage, sending him down to the south and negotiating troops, surrender, land, etc. So, they were going to kidnap Lincoln. Okay. and then try to Are you kidnapping, dude? He’s like 20 feet tall. Like, put him in the wagon, boys. Tall as [bleep] He’s like 6’3. Yeah. But for that time, that’s like hella tall.

Yeah. Some say he wanted to release Confederate prisoners of war. Um, but with the Confederacy’s defeat and Lincoln’s stance on black rights hardening, Booth’s desperation deepened and killing the president president and other top union officials came to be seen by Booth as a last chance to avenge the South and to perhaps overturn the victory of the Union and open the war back up. Oh, okay. So, you thought he this guy literally thought he was a martyr. Yeah. This like Yes. Yeah. And a lot of this, just so everybody knows, and we’ve we finished this book right in time, uh there’s a a book by James Swanson, um that is the manhunt for Booth, I think it was called Manhunt.

Yeah. Uh and a lot of this information is from that book. So if you wanted to read the book, it’s really great. Uh and they also did a show. Yeah. And it’s it’s really fantastic. It’s only about a 12 hour, right? 12 hour audio book or 10 hours something like that. Something like that. Yeah, that’s that’s easy breezy. It is when you’re on a road trip. Yeah, it was. Yeah, it was actually perfect timing. But um so Booth hoped to create mass confusion and disarray in the north and he ignited a new Confederate resistance and inspire the South to fight on and not surrender and not give up.

Yeah. And so the whole idea is is to overthrow the United States government in one swoop. So John Wils Booth was not alone in his designs. He was charismatic and wellconed. He was an actor. Like he could get in those doors that we can’t always get into. The plebs can’t get into. Yeah. And this is how it fits into our podcast, which is Booth pulled together a band of conspirators. In early 1865, he schemed to strike at Lincoln. Most of these men and one woman uh were young southern sympathizers like himself drawn into Booth’s orbit by his passionate intensity, his good looks, and his celebrity status.

Booth was a famous Shakespearean actor from a renowned actor family used his fame and charm to recruit followers who basked in his glory and friendship. And according it’s probably one of his cash, too. He probably had it he probably had money but it’s like, “Oh yeah, I’m in, bro. What are we eating for dinner tonight? They admired Booth personally and were eager to please him. Nevertheless, they all shared Confederate loyalties and a hatred for Lincoln, making them willing accompllices in the conspiracy. Yeah, he was all right. Did you look of him? John Wils. John Wils with a little mustache. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So, we’re going to go over That’s Buster Rhymes.

Uh, so we’re going to go over the key players of this whole. Yeah. Yes. But do you have any questions out the gate? Yes. Who was the girl who was with him and his homie? There you go. Yeah. Yeah. I’m going to tell you about these guys. Yeah. Um, any other questions that we’ll answer? Yeah. No, we just did a summary and then we’ll go over the details of like the people. Is there a Kuku’s plan already back that far? It was not as formed, but it was a thing. Okay. Yeah. I don’t think like back like that was like right when it ended. Before they didn’t really have to like hide themselves.

It became really big after the war ended because they were free and they had to go outside of the law. So, it’s been around before, but KKK was founded that same year. Yeah. So, like the war ended and they’re like, “Well, yeah, boys.” Yeah. Yeah. That’s a good question. Sheets, boys. Let’s go. That’s a great question. Yeah. Yeah. Confederate veterans established the KKK. Yeah. Yeah. A group of former Confederate soldiers established what would become the first chapter of the Ku Klux Clan. Yeah. In Tennessee. Tennessee. Okay. So, here here are the main players of this story. Yeah. This gambit. And so what we’re going to do is I’m going to tell you the the the people who are involved and then we’re going to go through the story of what they like their their Yeah.

And you’ll see that we’ll start at the theater and then we’ll go through and then they play their roles. He’s like first thing I’m going to bring some [bleep] martinis. Everybody loves them. It’s okay. Like they’re let me walk right through security. So here are the core group of conspirators. One is Mary Surat and she’s a 42-year-old widow who owned a boarding house in Washington where Booth met his accompllices. That was like the that was like the home base. Yeah. It was like one of the meeting places. And she was a devout Catholic and Confederate sympathizer. Mary and her family had aided the rebel cause for years.

Her tavern was in Seratville. And so her last name, her family literally like the town is Satzville. And how old is she? 42. She’s 42. Yeah. She’s a widow. So like and in those times she’s like an old [bleep] bird. Yeah. And 42year-old widow oldie who’s I’m like almost 42. No, but it’s okay. We can we can call her old cuz we are also that age. You live till you were like 60. Yeah. Like you were old as [bleep] Okay. So how did she meet him? Well, she was she she owned a boarding house where they would come and meet. Oh, okay. So, it’s like she had like a a lonely widow [bleep] Old Well, she wasn’t a [bleep] We don’t know.

Well, we don’t know. Honestly, actually, by the end of this, you might still call her that. Yeah. Old widow who was like, “Oh, okay. Let me just like be with these guys. He’s handsome. She’s so lonely.” Oh, I love the sound. I’m the king. So she became what’s called the denmother of the plot to kill the president. How? Yeah. How how so she provided she provided logistical support and her tavern was where weapons were hidden for Booth and the conspirators. Okay. Okay. She also had a son aged 20 who was also involved in the Now keep in mind this is very important when we go over the trial.

So, there was a trial that happens at the end of this, and it’s really important because we’re going to go over who was was hung and who was not. Was she hung? I’m not going to tell you yet. Yeah. But she also had a son named John Surat Jr. who was 20 years old and he was part of the kidnapping plot. Okay. Okay. It’s a family affair, but he backed out when the kidnapping turned into assassination. Okay. So, he wasn’t willing to go. A bit of a simple jack. Yeah. Yeah. I I mean I don’t know how he’d be a simple back. I don’t know.

He was like But at the end of it, I’m out. But at the end of it is it’s ruining. Okay. It’s a big difference between [bleep] kidnapping and assassination. It’s true. And he didn’t do it. [bleep] No. And And he didn’t do the kidnapping. Yeah. Because they cuz they didn’t. Yeah. Cuz they went to But later on we’re going to when we’re in the trial [bleep] hanged his ass, too. We’re going to go not only on this on this podcast, we’re going to go over like obviously conspiracies, but maybe they they got the wrong people. Yeah. You know what I mean? Oh, so they were being like they were just a mastermind soldiers.

Oh, no. Or maybe they like maybe the US government was like, “Fuck it. We’re out for revenge. We’re going to we’re going to hang everybody. Everybody that was involved with it.” Yes. Everybody’s getting hanged. Yes. That’s right. The milkman [bleep] getting hanged. That’s right. And so this is very important for Jorge to catch up on because when we do our final, you know what I mean? Like he’s he needs to know. He needs to know who did what, you know? Yeah. But you can send him. Yeah, we’ll send him the not a [bleep] Maybe he was a good guy. Thank you. Perhaps he just I wasn’t a piece of [bleep] Cuz he backed out and he was like, “This is wrong.

I’m not doing this anymore.” The denmother over here. [bleep] [bleep] Yeah. [bleep] I mean I’m proud. No, I’m saying if he’s part of Are you a Confederate? No, I’m not clearly. No, I’m saying if he’s part of this whole thing like he’s a little like he’s a [bleep] to this. Yeah. To this to their to the Confederate. Maybe he had a obviously had a good conscience. I don’t know. God damn. Redact. Red. I want to I want to I want to clarify. Okay. This guy was a [bleep] because he did everything his mom said to do or not do. Except for he didn’t. So he actually had a good heart.

He was a good guy. Deep down he was a very good guy. Cuz like when it got too real he was like this is too much. He was like this is crossing a line. That’s what I mean. Like I’m not going to walk in my mom’s footsteps. I’m not going to do this whole thing. Like Yeah. No. No. That’s not what I meant. That’s not what I meant. Yeah. I get it. I get it. It’s okay. I’m [bleep] around. No. And you know what? No. No. And what’s really important though is to know is to know the story of what happened, right? So I’m just telling you the characters.

We’re doing the characters, I think. Um, so next character, next character is Lewis Powell. Lewis Powell is 21-year-old former Confederate soldier. He was tall, built, battleh hardened. He had just fought at Gettysburg. Holy [bleep] And um, Booth brought Powell into the kidnapping plot. And Powell proved willing to use violence. He was quiet and intense and he was the man charged to murder the Secretary of State Seard. Okay. So, we’re going to go over that. We’re going to go over what happens, but just so you know, he was the guy for that. Exactly. No problem. Then there’s George Adserat. He was 30, a German-B born immigrant, Confederate sympathizer known for smuggling rebel spies across the PTOIC.

Azerat was a boatman from Maryland who had gruff. He was nervous though. Booth recruited him uh knowing his knowledge of the PTOAC and how to cross it. In the assassination plot, he was given the role of killing the vice president, Andrew Johnson. Okay, that’s ad 22. He was a Washingtonb born pharmacy clerk and he was a longtime friend of the Sherat family. Okay, so he just got he just got sucked in like just cuz he was there. And Harold was an eager and somewhat naive young man who hero worshiped Booth. He was like, “He’s my idol. I’ll do whatever you want, Booth.” And his his job was to simply guide Powell to the Seward’s house and then help Booth escape.

That’s his job. He’s like, “Take the fall from me, buddy.” Yeah. Like, I’ll love you forever if you just go to prison and I get out. Then there’s Dr. Samuel Mud. He’s 31. He’s a Maryland physician and Confederate sympathizer. This is the biggest person that we don’t know if he did wrong or if he did right. Okay. Okay. Okay. He was a doctor and he had met Booth in 1864 as part of the kidnapping. Okay. He agreed to help hide the president if abducted. Okay. Involved. He was not there the night of the assassion, but after Booth tried to escape, he went to his farm.

Yeah. I’m just telling you like like who these people are. Yeah. Okay. So far there’s a crew of like five. Yeah. And then there’s a couple other people, right? There’s Samuel Arnold and Michael Mlaughlin. Yeah. And they were friends of Booth from the beginning. Michael Olaclin. Olllin. And they were in their late 20s and they were boyhood friends from with Booth. But again, they were not part of the assassination. They were part of the kidnapping. Hold on. Is that a thing? Boyhood friends. Yeah. Your boys like grade school, high school, going down to fish together down at the the creek. Okay. So Jess, we’re we’re we’re girl girlhood friends.

Yeah. Childhood friends. Childhood friends. Yeah. They say boyhood. They’re cuz they’re boys. I don’t know. During their boyhoods. Yeah. 1800s, babe. That’s how they talk. And friend. Uh and then the last person in this story is Ned Spangler, and he was 39. He was not part of any conspiracy planning, but he gets drawn in because he was a stage hand at Ford’s Theater. The [bleep] And some say he got him out the back door. Oh, Spangler. Okay, there you go. Those that’s the crew. That’s the conspiracy crew. Oceans 8, Oceans 9. That’s what we know, right? And so by March 1865, this Mly crew, a mix of soldiers, smugglers, a doctor, a woman, a woman who owned a boarding house, etc.

They began to hatch their plans. And the original idea which was or orchestrated by Booth was to kidnap President Lincoln. Take him south, ransom him for prisoners of war and other things that you could kind of haggle for a president. It’s also so difficult. Can you imagine if that’s actually how it went down? I mean, it was close, but it’s also like it was close kidnapping and going down south, but there’s no like motor vehicle. So, it’s like, all right, we’ll be there in like six weeks actually. We’re finally get there. Like what the [bleep] is so difficult? By March of 1865, Booth pursued the kidnapping plan.

On March 17th, he him and the conspirators set an ambush for Lincoln’s carriage on a road. Mistakenly, they believed that Lincoln would be attending a hospital benefit, but that failed. He wasn’t there. He wasn’t there. Literally, he wasn’t there, and it just failed. Again, two more opportunities. Kidnap Lincoln never panned out. Uh, Booth became more and more frustrated. So, by early April, however, events had overtaken Booth’s scheme. The war ended before Booth could do the kidnapping plot. Damn it. Rendering hostage exchange kind of pointless. It’s like a mute point now. Yeah, exactly. In Booth’s mind, this left only one option. Assassination. Smurder. If he and his team could kill Lincoln and also target the VP and Secretary of State, they could effectively [bleep] the Union government.

This, he fantasized, might give the unreonstructed Confederacy a chance to rise again or at least take revenge for its defeat. Yeah. I mean, this is also when the government was [bleep] hella small. It wasn’t like, you know, the government today that has, you know, 6 million employees. It’s like the largest organization on earth. Also like no technology. There’s also no nothing. Everything is like travel by horse. Yeah. [bleep] Western Union. Which is which is partially why he managed to escape for 12 days. Yeah. Because there was no a bunch of dudes like what the [bleep] are we doing? Booth convened his main accompllices and reassigned their roles accordingly to kill President Lincoln.

Powell would be assigned to kill Seward, which is a secretary of state. Adserat would be assigned to kill VP Johnson. Mary Sarat’s job remained logistical support. She didn’t attack anyone, but facilitated the preparations. Yeah, that’s a you’re guilty by proxy. Yeah. Harold would be the guide and the getaway assistant. So, Booth and Powell and Adserat would be the strikes. Yeah. Yeah. They were the killers. The date for the strike was set for April 14th, 1865. That Friday, the president then scheduled to attend a play at Ford’s Theater. Moral of the story, don’t go to plays. In the late afternoon of April 14th, Booth had a final meeting with his co-conspirators at the Hearnden House in DC.

It’s a hotel. There he learned Lincoln would indeed attend Ford’s Theater that night. Booth reportedly said, “Gentlemen, you shall be immortalized.” As he rallied them for the simultaneous attacks, he gave Powell a revolver and a large knife and the address of Seward’s residence, instructing him on how to gain entry by pretending to be delivering medicine. So, he was delivering medicine though because I mean Seward. Yeah. So nine days earlier, Seward, the Secretary of State, was in a carriage accident and it was so bad that he was bedridden. Oh [bleep] And he was he had a a brace, etc. And he had like whole body. Yeah.

He was he was bedridden. Yeah. It sucked actually. Yeah. Modern medicine is a wonderful thing. Yes. He cautioned Adserat to do it or die in his task to slay the VP Johnson who was staying at a hotel. And the plan was set around 10:15. So they would all strike all of these people at 10 to 10:30 depending on check your pocket watches, boys. 10:15, strike goes down. And his plan was that during the third act of the play, there would be a big laugh and he would kill the president. Haha, dead. And at the same time, Pal would attack Seward in his home and Adserat would strike Johnson in his hotel suite.

If all went according to Booth’s design, the president, VP, and Secretary of State, the top three officials in the line of secession to presidency would all die. And that was their chance to decapitate the Union government and then write to the South and say, “Take over.” Okay. But I have a question. who if the vice president died at that time who was then secretary of state the secretary secretary of state still to this day okay so if the secretary of state dies then who’s then speaker of the house I think now but they didn’t have that I don’t think maybe they did good question that’s a great question I don’t know the answer to that I don’t know the answer to that and I don’t know who this I don’t know if they had a speaker at that time but that’s something to okay so the whole cabinets expanded but at that time if he took out all three it would just be chaos chaos It would be chaos.

Mass chaos. Yeah. It would be like a big power struggle and like then be madness. Yeah. Exactly. Um they’re all [bleep] sweaty in their wool suits and [bleep] Yeah. That’s how they talk. Okay. So, here we go. So, so now now that we have all of this information, this is the night. Good Friday, April 14th, 1865. It dawned with jubilation because we won the war. Jubilation. 1865. Yes. So 60 years before World War anything. Yeah. Yeah. One. Yeah. 60 years ago today was what? 19 60. No. Yes. Five. 1965. 65. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Isn’t that insane? I know that’s insane. But I understand what you’re saying where it’s that time frame.

Like that’s crazy. This was like horse and buggy and then suddenly it’s like war plananes and naval ships and submarines and all these things. Mhm. And now here we are and it’s like nuclear bombs and Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But more nukes than is so many nukes that it’s it’s it look I looked it up. It would ruin the world. over the world would just be gone. Yeah. There would be no more planet left. The US alone has 5,000 nukes. I’m like, why do we need 5,000? Why do we need them? So many. That’s so many. It’s such an unnecessary number of new. Actually, I’m very excited.

And we have a Patreon who requested it u a VIP, which is Pearl Harbor. Oh my god. [bleep] yeah. What a great request. Actually, not only they asked they they were like, “Hey, can you do an episode on Pearl Harbor?” And if we knew, right? if they knew the Japanese were actually coming to stay and then the Manhattan project like your grandfather, you know, yeah, your grandfather or great-grandfather was [bleep] pissed, but like that would be like us, okay, here we are being mad now again at Germany or World War II. Like, we’re not going to go nuke mad. I’m still a little mad. We’re still mad, but like, you know.

Yeah. Yeah. These are new, this is a new generations of people and they’re different. You know, it’s not happening today. Yeah. Actually, to your point though, I I do believe that when you’re talking about those time frames, I think it’s because I believe that the aliens came down and gave us technology. Well, no. I mean, you know, Eric definitely doesn’t believe that the aliens have only been here four times. No, actually what I believe is that you’re on to something in regards to it’s a generation has passed and so you kind of and then we get and we don’t learn from from the history of our grandfather and then a new thing happens because our our generation hasn’t learned from the past.

Now again each I mean people people in their own countries they learn about their own history and if but if you extend your knowledge and you extend your studies then you go out you go okay what’s Ireland’s history and what’s Ireland going through or what is you know what I mean so to her point like it’s a good point of Africa. Yeah. There’s multiple wars going on across the planet for sure at almost all times. Yeah. constantly. So, it’s Yeah. Yeah. You know. Yeah. Absolutely. Well, at this point, we’re talking about America and the American move. But I understand what you’re saying. I do understand what you’re saying.

Fight the B. But again, let’s go back. So, Good Friday, April 14th. It was jubilation because it was four or five years of war of every of us fighting our brothers. It was us fighting our families that are in the south andor in the north and it’s it’s literally like our own I people don’t actually if you really study civil war in America it’s horrible or in other countries too civil war is the worst to me because it’s literally me disagreeing with Sean and then we’re going to battle dimension on your property or my property or whatever and then turning each other in to whichever side, you know?

That’s Can you imagine like your homie like you’re like, “Hey, what’s up, Eric?” And you’re like, “What’s what’s happening? What’s wrong?” And all of a sudden some like [bleep] KKK boys come and like snatch me up. Oh. I mean, it’s a little reminiscent too of our political climate today where people are so literally our political climate today. Yeah. So people are so divided that it’s like some people are scared to even say what their affiliation is publicly because they don’t want to because no one cares because it doesn’t matter. I don’t know if it’s as I don’t think today is as black and white as it was then.

Oh there it’s a basic demarcation of hey slavery doesn’t exist. It’s either it’s either you like you want slaves or you don’t. Yeah. No. And and also I know there are other people in the south who were like well this is how our family survives. So if you but the other thing though is that the civil war wasn’t only about slavery. It was a major part of it but there were a lot of other parts to the civil war other than slavery. For sure. For sure. Big birthing. But I mean like that was the I’m just saying yeah I’m just saying it’s not quite as as cut and dry as today where like we’re not like I don’t know why I don’t know.

I mean you could be a Republican and people will call you racist just because you are a Republican even though all you believe is you know I think that a certain class of people should have less taxes or whatever it is like it’s not a racist it goes and it goes both ways too and it’s like you know like oh you’re a Democrat oh you’re a socialist. It’s like not necessarily like my parents aren’t [bleep] socialists like but they’re like allowed to [bleep] believe what they want but you see how it’s kind of vague like we’re even us talking about it is not as you are absolutely but again it also and and to her point where it doesn’t necessarily it also had to do with e economics and it had to do with states rights.

Yeah. So it it would be like the federal government telling you like say you’re doing something wrong in the in it doesn’t even have to be the south but it’s the federal government coming in saying that is not correct abortion. Let’s take abortion because that’s a hot topic drugs abortion whatever. Yeah. Exactly. That’s right. So, it would be like the federal government coming in and saying, you know, you I’m going to tell you what abortion laws you can pass. And you’re like, I actually agree with you on abortion, but I don’t agree with you on telling me what to do. Yeah. Well, my state can because that’s against the Constitution.

That’s what everybody in Florida says. That’s right. So anyway, so like it, you know, it does it does, you know, and a lot to what you’re saying where it’s not necessarily just about slavery, but it’s about states rights. Yeah, that’s really the the main or economics in the south, you know, that is related to slavery, but not necessarily. It’s kind of like some pe some states, for example, they were like, hey, we’re all for not having slavery, but we need a plan. Labor. Yeah. We need a plan because our family has done this for a hundred years and we will go homeless without this anymore.

So what’s the plan? You know what I mean? So it’s a little different. Each state had their own situation. Yeah. Anyways. Yeah. All right. There you go. So but on but on April 14th though it was a day of jubilation. And I and I say that I know jubilation because the war was it’s like it’s c it’s party happiness. Oh it’s like the war is over. There’s no more fighting like we’re let’s get drunk and [bleep] sing songs and you know what I mean the president can the president can go to the theater and watch a play. So it was like it was a bright night and it was you know what I mean?

Like the future the future was bright. Dude, the bar cut off is not 900 p.m. anymore. The war is over. Yes, the war is over. Fireworks lit lit streets. Like, this is like, you know, jubilation. Yeah. Anyways, yeah, love it. And that evening, President Lincoln, First Lady Mary Todd, and two guests, Major Henry Wthbone, and his fianceé Clara Harris, went to relax at Ford’s Theater, attending the popular comedy Our American Cousin. They settled into the presidential box above the stage around 8:30. They were a little late. The play went on without them, but they showed up about 30 minutes late. John Wils Booth arrived at Ford’s Theater earlier that day around noon to pick up his mail because apparently actors could like have a little box and like pick up their mail.

Uh by doing so, he learned that the president would be there that night. So assassination attempt. How did he know? By picking up his mail, he probably asked like some people there, “Hey, is the president coming today?” They’re like, “Hey John, hey Joe, you know what’s going on tonight?” Hey, Peanut. Yeah. Hey. Also, it might have been advertised like president’s coming. So, once the president was confirmed to come, tickets sold out. Oh, I guarantee it. So, it was like spread the word, president’s coming. They’re trying to Yeah, they’re trying to get paid. They’re like, “The president’s coming.” Hold on. I’m sorry. This is sidebar. Where is Lincoln from?

Pennsylvania. Kentucky. Oh, he’s actually from Kentucky. Like, he’s known as like he was splitting wood as a young man. He was a big burly man. Kentucky part of the Confederate. Uh at certain points they were and then they it’s like a borderline. Yeah. Yeah. So was where he was from Well, that’s why there’s a big uh like cuz you have Kentucky and in Cincinnati and Cincinnati has a big like underground railroad museum because they would take people over the river and once you Yeah. Once you get over the river you get into Ohio, you’re in the north. So you have like northern Kentucky and you could literally just you get there and you’re like free.

So he was from Yeah. But he wasn’t he like from a teenager and then he moved Illinois, right? No, but he grew up in a family that potentially had for sure slaves. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. That’s probably So from the jump, he was like, “This is something’s off. I don’t like this. This is wrong.” Yeah, that’s right. So after they arrived, the play rolled on. They laughed. They enjoyed a brief resppite from years of war. And they start, you know, they laughed and they were like cat like finally I’m with my wife and you know what I mean and and even people say they were holding hands and it was like a a beautiful moment.

Yeah, sounds great. Yeah. John Wils retrieved a small Daringer pistol and a sharp dagger and even made a small peepphole in the door to the presidential box so that he could observe uh inside. I love how there’s like no this is before like Secret Service. Yeah, it’s like no security. That’s a good question actually. When did the Secret Service get formed? I’m I’m I’m super close to that. Great question. Uh so, but the actor has done tons of plays. So, Booth knows the layout. He knows the steps. He knows the people. He knows the popcorn guy. He knows the ins and outs. How do he make a people in DC that day?

He did that day with like a drill. Yeah. How did he make or like a knife? A little knife. It’s like a little like thin wall. And he just did that back then. Yeah. I mean, like paperier-mâché probably. So, but the point is is that he moved around without suspicion because he was always there and he was the guy he had his mailbox there. I know. Like, you know what I mean? Like he’s there. Yeah. As the place as the play’s third act was underway, Booth slipped into the hallway behind the president’s box. He jammed the door shut behind him with a wooden stick. Nice.

And and most stories don’t tell this, which is he actually jammed it shut so nobody could come in or come in. So he went into the box and jammed it shut while Lincoln was sitting in there watching the play. That’s right. And this is the moment where I’m like, where the [bleep] was the guard? Yeah. Yeah. So I lit at the [bleep] boss. So now blowrop the she’s like logistics. She’s like the hormother. the whole time. Hey, big boy. Yeah, that was her job and whatever. So, so this part is uh this part is based on witnesses and we know how witnesses sometimes are the worst.

Yeah. The worst. Yeah. So, uh and I looked it up. So, when Abraham Lincoln attended Ford’s theater, he was supposed to be protected by an officer of the Metro Police named John Parker who was assigned to guard the president. After repeated That’s the guy that should have been hung. After repeated threats against Lincoln during the Civil War, Washington police had detailed men to accompany him when he appeared in public. There was no Secret Service. Okay. That night, Parker escorted the Lincoln from the White House to Ford’s Theater. He like did. He took position outside of the door to the box, which overlooked the stage. His primary responsibility was to stand guard and ensure no unauthorized person would approach the president.

However, he didn’t get at some point during the second act, Parker left. Nobody knows why. Maybe he was on the end. Nobody knows what’s going on. Going to get a drink. Some say the dead mother. Some say that he went to find a seat in the play and went to watch the play. Some say he went to the bar. That’s what I did. And that makes way more sense. Like I’m going to abandon my post to watch a play or I’m going to get some some whiskey. We even watching smoke. We even watched a show or like a a series based on this book that we’re even talking about where he went to the bar and he bumped into Booth at the bar.

Wow. Oh, sorry buddy. And he was like, “Oh, he doesn’t need protection. He’s just going to I’m going to let him, you know, he’s good. So, do you want to know what when the Secret Service was formed? Yes. Okay. The Secret Service was actually formed in 1865. That is the year he died. But guess what? It was not actually created to protect presidents. Yeah. It was created to combat the widespread counterfeiting of US dollars. So, they were in the finance department. Oh, like the Treasury Department. It was the Treasury Department. And then it wasn’t until McKinley’s assassination attempt in 1901 until they actually were like, “Let’s also make it so that we don’t let presidents get murdered anymore.” Interesting.

Random. I know. That’s so wild. I did not know that. Treasury. So, uh, here’s all we know is that he never came back. Parker, he was just like gone. There’s no guard present. I quit. Uh, isn’t that crazy? Did anybody ever look into maybe if he was part of this conspiracy? Because that’s weird. Yeah. Parker’s abandonment of his duty left the president effectively unguarded at his most v vulnerable moment. Good. I don’t know. I don’t I don’t have the answer. Anyways, keep rolling. Did you guys hear anything? I didn’t hear anything. No, but but no no no. Let me tell you. So, so thank you.

So, I’m going to jump to after the assassination. Uh, he was charged with neglect of duty. Oh, wow. Whoa. A big slap on the wrist. But the case was dismissed for lack of evidence. Cuz he’s like, “Wait, did you see me there?” Well, well, no. That’s what I thought. Did anybody tell me I couldn’t go to the bar and get a drink? He returned to the police force and was a police officer until he retired. Jesus, what a joke. [Laughter] But again, it then it led to what Katie’s talking about, which is that he’s like, I was taking a [bleep] Then the secret service was formed, but then evolved, etc.

Yeah. Like, hey, took kind of a long time for the secret for service to keep trying to kill. Inside the state box, Abraham Lincoln sat in an upholstered rocking chair enjoying the play. Major Wthbone and Clare Harris were seated nearby, and Mary Lincoln was holding her husband’s hand. At about 10:15 p.m., just as the audience laughed at one of the night’s biggest comedic lines, Booth fired the gun. Now, keep in mind, this is a oneshot gun. What did [bleep] Major Wrath do? That dude sounds like he could [bleep] rip arms off. You’re about to find out. Yeah. The bullet struck Lincoln in the back of the head, penetrating his skull.

Lincoln’s body went slack as he slumped over in his chair, but he didn’t fall over. He just kind of slumped over. Some witnesses say that Booth yelled, “The South is avenged.” Wrath, oh, once an actor, always an actor. He’s like, “Put a [bleep] do it.” It’s got to be dramatic. I know. Ra Wthburn, startled and confused, jumped up to grapple with the intruder. Booth dropped the pistol, drew his dagger. He had anticipated needing a backup weapon. When Wthburn lunged at him, Booth slashed the major’s left arm deeply with the knife, cutting to the bone. Oh [bleep] Clara Harris screamed as blood splattered across her dress.

In the chaos, Booth then leapt over the front of the the balcony. In his leap, his foot or his uh you know when you have a spur Yeah. caught on the American flag. [bleep] like insult. It’s very ironic, right? Seriously, it’s almost like it’s like a movie. Yeah. Causing him to land on the stage off balance. Apparently, he broke the fibula in his left leg upon impact. Yeah, I’ve done that before. Witnesses recall seeing the tall, dark-haired Booth raise himself, brandishing the knife, shouting, “6er tyrannis, Latin for thus always to tyrants.” And that’s the motto of Virginia. Booth then ran across the stage limping but determined and exited through a side door to the alley where his horse was held ready.

The audience was shocked and the strange part about the story is nobody did anything. But didn’t um didn’t the colonel, whoever it was that was in the booth with he didn’t he try to get people to Yeah. So they’re like yelling. They’re like murderer. Uh get him. He shot the president like and and everybody’s just kind of startled and they’re in the middle of a play and nothing nobody did anything. No. But see this is this is also too it’s like you’re at a play. It’s not like there’s a bunch of like [bleep] hardcore [bleep] at the play, you know? They’re all like, you know, so I understand why no one did anything.

They also thought that it was part of the play was that possibly. This is so interactive. Yeah, possibly. Although, let’s just say you’re sitting there, you’re sitting in the third row and the pre, you know, the president’s there. Everybody’s got his got a little side eye on the prey, right? And then some dude jumps over the balcony and yells some random attack with a bloody blade. Yeah. And and a lot of people I think didn’t even hear it, right? Yeah. And so you don’t know what’s happening. I guess I’m trying to like understand their view. I’m trying to pull that [bleep] off and like anywhere in the US.

Like you’re just going there people some people people are going to start shooting each other like there’s going to be many other people getting shot cuz they think everyone’s got like everyone anybody in the US is like hyper aware of any sort of sound that might even be a gunshot. So but and what what gets lost in this story a lot is the very same moments on the other side of town two other violent attacks were about like the other the other bros. Yeah. So, at Secretary Seard’s home on Lafayette Square, Lewis Powell, remember the Lewis Powell? He was like the 21-y old he fought at Gettysburg.

He’s like a dude. He began his mission around 10:15. Now, this is when Lincoln was literally being shot. Pal arrived at Seward’s mansion posing as a messenger with a medicine box because he was like in he was cooped up. He was [bleep] Yeah, he was bedridden, right? uh and recovering from a serious carriage accident nine days earlier. It left him with a broken jaw and arm. So he was he was in bed fully in the 1860s. He’s like, “Bring me the puppy. Bring me bring me the milk of the puppy.” Pal pal knocked on the door and talked his way past a servant and said, “Hey, this is the medicine.” He made him he made his way to the third floor where he encountered Seward’s son, Frederick.

Frederick refused to let the stranger into his father’s room. Pal pulled a pistol, aimed it at Frederick’s face. He pulled the trigger. Click. Misfire of the weapon. So Pal clubbed Frederick savagely on the skull until the weapon broke in half, but Jesus beat him almost to death in the head. Pal then burst into the secretary’s bedroom, knife drawn. Seward’s daughter, Fanny, was there, screamed at the sight of the intruder. Sergeant George Robinson, an army nurse assigned to Seward, grappled with Powell, and there was a big fight, and they were slashed in the forehead. Powell slashed another man in the room, Seard’s other son, Augustus, and flung Fanny aside with blood all over her dress.

He then leapt onto the bed, began stabbing Seward in the face and the neck. Holy [bleep] Repeatedly with this huge massive [bleep] Dundee knife. Yes. [bleep] That’s not a knife. That’s annoying. That’s annoying. Secretary Seard, unable to to defend himself, was brutally cut across the face. But in a weird strange uh strange I don’t know luck, the brace that was holding his jaw saved his life. No [bleep] way. Seward’s eldest son, Major William Seard, arrived and also then was stabbed in the side during the struggle. Dude, how is this guy like the ultimate warrior? Jesus Christ. Who accounted for this story? Oh, this is all the people who were stabbed.

all the people who were this is all here’s the crazy part of the story everybody lived but later on um later on the state department came and it was like a blood bath there was blood on the stairs blood on the walls blood in the bed blood on her night gown on her night counting like I mean anytime your gun you know all his only weapon is a knife so he’s going through and just [bleep] stabbing ing people. It’s insanity. So then at a certain point, at a certain point, Pal decided to flee. So there’s blood everywhere, children. They’re kids, but they’re grown up kids.

Kids. Yeah. So his daughter was there nursing him, but she’s like probably 20s. Yeah. You know, whatever. Yeah. So she’s like, “Fuck this.” Yeah. In total, Lewis Pal severely wounded by the knife. Eight people. Damn. Not a single person died. So that’s why, you know, they’re on record as like saying what happened. You know what I mean? [bleep] Yeah. [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] Oh, you couldn’t you couldn’t get past your little [bleep] clavicle brace. Yeah. You didn’t get past a little girl. All eventually they did recover though. Fred Frederick, which was the son, was in a coma for two months. Over the head. Yes. Yes.

Uh the secretary of state himself, he had facial scars for the rest of his life, you know, because he was sliced. Yeah. One other part to this, there was a guy there was a guy waiting outside for the stabber. Yeah. So Powell then gave up essentially and he failed to kill Seart after stabbing. And so he’s like, I’m going to get the [bleep] out of here. Now, the original plan was that David Herald was supposed to be outside with the horse. Oh. For his to escape. Yeah. Get away. But, uh, there was screaming women, you know, the the daughter was like, “Murderer, murderer.” Like, it wasn’t the daughter.

It was the the the nurse. No, there was. So, when Powell tried to gain entry to the house, the he was an actual he was a black servant. Yeah. He was like, “You cannot come in. you can give me the medicine. And he went all the way up the stairs with him and tried to not g give him entry to the h to the bedroom. There was a black servant. No, he wasn’t a slave. No, he was paid. He wasn’t a slave. He was an employee. He was like a good He was like a butler. And he was like, I’ve been given otherwise why he wouldn’t try to protect the He’s not like Samuel L.

He’s not like, oh, that’s a massel. He’s like, “I’ve been I’ve Yeah, he’s been like he was a lot of times movie. It’s from Django.” I know. Well, I don’t know. Well, you made it seem like you were No, a lot of times I left. No, a lot of times uh uh a lot of times the emancipation came out and then everybody was freed, but then that’s all they knew. So, they just started paying them the wage. Yeah. It’s a job. So, instead of being a slave, you’re now You kind of still have your same job, but you’re being paid now. Yeah. So he was like, “You cannot you cannot get up there.” He tried to not give him access.

And then the son that was bludgeoned. Yeah. Was anyway doesn’t matter. The servant followed the guy like ran down to the street and was yelling murder in the street. So then what’s his name with the horses? Harold. So Harold. Harold with the horses was like, “What the fuck?” Harold’s like, “I’m out.” Actually, he’s like, “I’m out.” like the getaway horse not going to stay. Yeah, the getaway horse was gone. So then Powell then comes out wandered outside covered in blood, disappeared into the night. We’ll find out to him later. Mhm. Okay. Tracking. Okay, good. Simultaneous to all this is the third attack. Yes. Remember how there was three on the vice president?

Yes. So this is the vice president. So this is George Adserat. He lost his nerve. His job was to kill Andrew at the hotel. So what did he do? He went to the hotel bar. He was armed with a pistol and knife, but he decided to just drink a little bit, you know, get my courage up, man. I got to got to keep a little. And then he got scared. He got so drunk he he said, “Fuck this.” And he just I’m out. He got hammered and then apparently just wandered the streets completely drunk. I mean, could you imagine if the roles were reversed versus the guy that went to try to kill the Secretary of State instead of the VP?

Like, would have changed history. Yeah. Oh my god. Yeah. It really would have. That guy was dedicated. Yeah. So, in fact, that dude was willing to kill everyone in the house. In fact, uh the VP went undisturbed the whole night. Wow. Little Andrew Johnson. Yeah. Okay. So, back at Ford’s Theater. Now, we now we go back to Ford’s Theater. Pandemonium has set in. The audience and actors gradually realized that the president has been shot. Mary Lincoln’s piercing screams and wrathbones shouts of stop that man spread the alarm. Several men scrambled to chase Booth, but he had a head start to the back door on stage.

A [bleep] broken leg. That’s what I’m saying. Well, I know. But there was a major delay. Like there’s a like people didn’t do [bleep] for everyone was super confused. Adrenaline. But adrenaline. Yeah. Yeah. Uh on stage there was an actress named Laura Keane. She implored the crowd to remain calm as people shouted that the president was shot. A young army surgeon in attendance rushed to the presidential box. He found Lincoln unresponsive, paralyzed, and barely breathing. Wow. Holy [bleep] He was still alive. Soldiers. Yes, he was still alive. [bleep] back on the head. That’s when bullets were like, you know, also don’t forget it was the little baby gun.

Daringer. It was the little singleshot Daringer. Yeah. Like a really tiny lodge in there. Soldiers carried Lincoln out of the theater. The 6’4 president was too tall to fit in the Ford’s theater staircase. I’m saying like the [bleep] were tiny back then. They were all [bleep] So they had Yeah, but like that’s like you know like King the King Henry VI. They were like, “Oh my god, this guy. He was like 6′ tall.” They’re like, “He’s a Ryan Reynolds here from Mint Mobile. With the price of just about everything going up, we thought we’d bring our prices down. So to help us, we brought in a reverse auctioneer, which is apparently a thing.

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So they were like can we get him to a place that is more I don’t know like appropriate. So across the street was something called the Peterson House where they brought him into a room where he was laid on a bed. Yeah. Doctors examined Lincoln and knew the wound was fatal because the bullet had lodged into his brain. They made him as comfortable as possible and cabinet members and officials gathered. Shock and grief etched on their faces. Um Secretary of War Edwin Stanton effectively took charge and started to realize that a conspiracy was a foot. like [bleep] was going down. There’s reports of Secretary Seard being attacked like holy [bleep] Undisturbed.

So he started to give he started to give orders going uh the third battalion. No. And go go to everybody in the cabinet like get security over to everybody in the cabinet and hunt start hunting for the assassins. And Lincoln at that point never regained consciousness. He laid there for nine hours with people coming in kind of like saying goodbye andor like in that weird vibe if you could imagine where he was like like little breathing but nothing really that you can do. Absolutely horrible. Yeah, it’s like the worst. I’ll be like [bleep] kill me. So 9 hours after being shot with his wife at his side and everybody really there and Stanton then declared at 7:22 a.m.

he said now he belongs to the ages. Oh [bleep] And then he passed away. Now some people say that he actually said now he belongs to the angels. Okay. But nobody’s 100% sure exactly what was said. Maybe he was like a little stuttery. Yeah. I’ve lost. But some some historians actually believe none of that was said. He was like he’s dead and it became a dramatic thing. Oh, they had to add a little sounds. Yeah, because there’s no actual witness that says anything was said. But anyways, that’s the end. That’s that’s the end of that. Yeah, that’s when he died and uh the great emancipator Abraham Lincoln, the president was gone.

uh an unprecedented crime had been committed against the United States government and it was confirmed that there are multiple people committing a crime against our government leading it to be a conspiracy. A conspiracy definition of a conspiracy legit definition. That’s right. Uh so that’s what we’re going to do for part one and leading into part two. It is obviously so Booth escaped out the back door. Oh yeah. hobbled his ass out, broken leg. We don’t know who at this point, we don’t know who was helping him. He had a horse ready. We don’t know where Powell went. We don’t know where we don’t know where Harold went, etc.

And what would become a 12-day manhunt across the nation? And so that is I mean it couldn’t be technically 12 days on a horse. You’re going to across the state. Where did they end up finding they found him in the south at a farm? Well, wait. We’re going to get into that in the next parts. Yeah, I think it’s Virginia. We got two more south. I mean, at the time of the south at the time it was the south. DC and Virginia. That’s not They got No, but at the time they were It wasn’t like It wasn’t just they were trying to get over the line of like the Union line.

You know where DC is? No, I know physically, but but you got to go back and consider it like historically Virginia is part of the South. Yeah, 100%. But also, babe, like the like the one of the main bases for the Confederates was in Virginia. But I I in my opinion, the 12 days is extremely interesting to me because there are there were so many chances for Booth to be caught, for everybody to be caught, and it took way too [bleep] long. Yeah. I mean, I can’t wait for the next episode because it’s it’s on theane it’s on everything’s insane how he escaped. It’s insane how there were like so many points at time where there’s like soldiers that stop these people some like they even know.

Okay, we’re searching for XYZ people that look like XYZ. He’s a celebrity and he’s a celebrity. He’s a celeb. It’s literally like [bleep] Adam Driver galloping around going. What’s going on? No, I’m not. I heard from, you know, that I should be stopping this man that looks like Adam Driver, but yet Oh, um, he just said, “Well, I should be going.” And then you just [bleep] let him through. No, but here’s the thing is like this is also in the 1800s, so it’s like there’s no facial recognition. There’s also like I don’t think the education level was like super like pristine. Also, it’s really hard.

He could just like talk his way out of it. But but if you have orders, if you have orders, don’t let anybody through this gate or don’t let anybody over this bridge. And then somebody come runs over and they’re like, “Oh, I need to pass.” And you’re like, “No, you can’t.” And they’re like, “Well, I need to get home.” And then they’re like, and you’re like, “Okay, fine.” Imagine it’s like you have orders, but you have like the you have the education level of like a 9-year-old and you’re like you’re like, “Hey, but I need to be there.” Like, “Well, [bleep] that sounds pretty valid.” Yeah.

let them on through. Education was a How do you know that? I don’t know. I’m just imagining in the 1800s and you’re going through like the sticks and you got like guys who joined the military when they were like [bleep] 13, you know, maybe they weren’t like super [bleep] like crackle the whip smart. I don’t know. But at the same time, if you were told, don’t let anybody Yeah, but you’re going to the next episode. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. Like they don’t even know this part of the story. Yeah. Yeah. This is called foreshadowing error. I mean, I just have to say the next part is the most interesting part in my opinion.

So, he he had his own lines to where he was trying to get himself and his conspirators out of the north. Okay. So, but but but what we’ve gone over so far, we’ve we see negligence of an army officer or a police officer. Yes. Protecting him. Yes. Yeah. And we do see a actual plot to try to overthrow the government. Yes. Yeah. Yes. And then the question that will keep going is the next episode is really important. You’re totally right. Where it’s like these people were then convicted andor hanged for helping him escape. Yes. So anyways, we’ll lead into that in the next episode, but yes.

Are there any other commentary of of of what did you guys know all of this that happened? No, not even not even remember like everybody knows the whole booth jumped over the thing sixer terrorist. Yes, I knew that. Yeah. I didn’t know there was like a whole the whole conspiracy. I thought he was just like a bro and he was like there was a lot that I didn’t know about the secretary of state and how he was there. I didn’t know a lot before research of this podcast that, you know, there were multiple assassination attempts at the same time as Lincoln. Yeah. You know, that was super interesting to me.

And then also, I didn’t realize that Booth was also such a famous person. I didn’t think he had like a big deal. Yeah. Like it’s like he was like a struggling actor. Yeah. And that you hate the president, but Yeah. No, I thought that was interesting. Yeah. Well, and then the last little note on this is what I do find interesting is that the American people were shocked to find that a small band of people could pull something off. Yes. Yeah. You know what I mean? And and I think that that has a lot to do with it, which is like you don’t think Yeah.

like a couple rag tag [bleep] Yeah. you know, and we see it we see it today. And then that opens the door to going like, you know, could Lee Harvey do that? Well, I mean, Lee Harvey is like a whole No, I know. I think it’s another conspiracy. Could we Harvey actually do that? We had five episodes of All I’m trying to say is that is that what a small group of people could do. You know what I mean? For sure. Yeah. And I mean and my the other thing to me is that that’s pretty surprising is that even after all of these assassination attempts and not just attempts but successful assassinations is that there were no like there was no governmental, you know, like the Secret Service was not founded after years later.

Your leaders like that’s insane to me. Like how do you not? Yeah. You know, I know it’s the building of America, you know, one step at a time. Learning the learning the hard way. Unfortunately, literally the hard way. The worst way. I mean, the best in my opinion, the best president of all time, Lincoln. Yeah. A Lincoln [bleep] solid dude. President and seemed like a legit guy. You know, they didn’t learn from their mistakes, which is wild to me. Well, in the next episode we are going to cover the hunt for John’s booth and it’s a whole story. He goes to a bridge. Don’t take a whole thing.

There are people along the way that help him who are then convicted later. Yeah. Just get Stop telling us. Just wait to get enraged. Yes. I’m getting enraged right now. Enraged by incompetency. Exactly. So, uh, and then we’ll go over more of the conspiracies of whether were like was the Confederacy involved. Oh, like because if the actual government or the Confederacy itself was involved, that’s a whole other conversation. Yeah, that’s true. You know, so anyways, we’ll go over that next time. Uh, as always, I just want to say real quick, uh, join the Patreon. It really supports and helps this podcast to continue. I know we harp on it a lot.

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