The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Season 21, Episode 02.09.09, Aired
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The circumstances surrounding the last days of the 16th President of the United States.
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      • Booth's early plot (planned before Lincoln's second inauguration) was to kidnap the President, take him to Richmond, and ransom him for Confederate prisoners. Edit

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      • This is a 90 minute episode. February 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. Edit

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      • James Swanson (writer): John Wilkes Booth was not insane, he was not mad. Unless, you think (a large part of) the country was mad. Edit

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