EVERYONE should go to Ford's Theatre in Wash DC and tour it. I put it off for 50 years, and finally went few years ago - it is kept in the exact way it was since the assassination. It is fascinating and like going back in time.
BabyBoomerChannel of course, as you know, it's completely reconstructed since the entire inside collapsed after being used as a government office building.
I can't believe the most remarkable fact of all: Lincoln had no protective security that evening to the extent that Booth simply strolled into the box with a loaded weapon cocked and ready.
It is a d?? Shame that people like that have a right to live here in ourrr country the USA he hated what President Lincoln stood for. An he did not think the black man had a God giving right to live an be free in ourrr country jesus was right on time i no mr Lincoln will make it to Jesus heaven that is what it is all about
@@darcyperkins7041 Yes, Lincoln's officer that night was from the DC police force, however I think he was on the White House payroll. It's be a while since I read up on the assassination.
Actually that’s false, I’ve heard two different versions stating that his security were Law Enforcement officers and there was either only 1 that was asleep or he left to go to a bar, or there was 2 and 1 left to the bar and the other felled asleep and John walked right past him
He missed a very surprising fact. About a year before the assassination, a man standing on a very crowded train platform was attempting to board a boxcar with other passengers. But it was very crowded, with people pressed against the entrance to the car and others actually leaning against the car waiting for their turn to enter. This man saw a young man in his early 20's leaning against the same car he was trying to get into. Suddenly without warning, the train started moving forward, the engineer not realizing the boarding hadn't completed. At that moment, the young man leaning against the car was knocked off balance and fell down in between the moving car and the platform. The other man saw what had happened and quickly lunged into action - he reached down and grabbed the young man by his coat collar, yanking him up and out of his very soon to be death space. The older man that had saved the young man from being crushed by the train that day was John Wilkes Booth's brother - Edwin Booth. And the young man he saved that day? Robert Lincoln, the eldest son of President Abraham Lincoln.
Edwin Booth didn't know who Robert Lincoln was, at least just by looking at him. So it's not surprising he didn't realize who he was at the time of the incident. In contrast, Edwin Booth was one of the most famous actors in America at that time, so Robert Lincoln DID recognize him. From wikipedia: "Robert Lincoln recalled the incident in a 1909 letter to Richard Watson Gilder, editor of The Century Magazine: *The incident occurred while a group of passengers were late at night purchasing their sleeping car places from the conductor who stood on the station platform at the entrance of the car. The platform was about the height of the car floor, and there was of course a narrow space between the platform and the car body. There was some crowding, and I happened to be pressed by it against the car body while waiting my turn. In this situation the train began to move, and by the motion I was twisted off my feet, and had dropped somewhat, with feet downward, into the open space, and was personally helpless, when my coat collar was vigorously seized and I was quickly pulled up and out to a secure footing on the platform. Upon turning to thank my rescuer I saw it was Edwin Booth, whose face was of course well known to me, and I expressed my gratitude to him, and in doing so, called him by name.* Months later, while serving as an officer on the staff of General Ulysses S. Grant, Robert Lincoln recalled the incident to his fellow officer, Colonel Adam Badeau, who happened to be a friend of Edwin Booth. Badeau sent a letter to Booth, complimenting the actor for his heroism. Before receiving the letter, Booth had been unaware that the man whose life he had saved on the train platform had been the president's son. The incident was said to have been of some comfort to Edwin Booth following his brother's assassination of the president.[50][51] President Ulysses Grant also sent Booth a letter of gratitude for his action."
Well, this is CBS News, so we're lucky there's anything accurate in it at all; second, brevity was obviously a concern, so there's only so much to fit in.
In Boston, I walk by the site of the Boston Museum. A 19th century theater where Booth performed many times. His last curtain call there was in the autumn of 1864. Walking by on cold chilly nights when few people are out. You can almost here him reciting his lines from Hamlet.
@@christco120 Fair point, and they do. Garfield and McKinley two accomplished Ohioans, both lawyers and both having taken strong positions against slavery and toward equality. An assassination is a deeply sad event for all concerned, political leader, family, supporters, people and country.
When General Grant did not go to the play with the Lincoln's that night, another soldier was there, Major Henry Rathbone. If my sources are correct, Major Rathbone was a distant relative of the actor Basil Rathbone who gained fame in the part of Sherlock Holmes in the 1940's.
John Martin Technically you saw 'stains'. Someone else said they were blood stains. Unless you yourself tested the stains, or you saw the report of a qualified person, a forensic pathologist,. you just believe what your told. I'm not nitpicking, just saying that many times we accept what we're told for whatever reason. In this case there is nothing sinister in whether or not they're blood stains.
He was 2 weeks shy of his 27th birthday when he died. The Civil War was a hard time for everyone, which made people age rapidly, to include John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln was 56 when he died and looked like he was in his 70s.
@@ellington1 he didn’t look THAT OLD. But back then times were harder so people in general looked older than what they were. Now we are spoiled and have plastic surgery.
Booth shot from a theater and ran into a warehouse. Oswald shot from a warehouse and ran into a theater. Kennedy was elected in 1960. Lincoln in 1860. Both had vice-presidents named Johnson. There is a lot more.
There's a brewery in Abilene, TX, bearing this name, and I was surprised when I visited that they were unaware of the word's use in the Lincoln assassination. Instead, the term apparently sees use over at Dyess AFB, so "Sockdolager Brewing Company" it was, referring to someone special or exceptional. Nice folks, good beer, if you are ever in that neck of the woods. FWIW, they say the last syllable with a hard -g-, like "Grrr."
Lol he meant the doctor would relieve a blood clot in Lincoln’s head which would help him breathe better. The wound was causing him to not be able to breathe
I live in Arizona now but im from Memphis and every time i visit my home town i stop by the Lorraine motel the place were Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated and it still to this day gives me chills and every time i think of President Lincoln i think of Dr.Martin Luther King and vice versa...two great American trying to bring us all together killed by racist, insignificant bigots by the way im a 49yr old African American and i was raised to hate no one because of race or religion and we are all in this together and the racist hate the fact that they are in the small minority
@@robfolks your hate dosen't work on me especially the name calling because I spend my life respecting people of different races and teaching kids that we are all in this together while at the same time fighting racism and people who want to segregate us because they're miserably...Good day to you
Booth wanted to be well known now like every assassin since the beginning of time. That's their true motive. I don't believe that you or I would have ever heard of him if he hadn't killed the president.
Booth's supposed diary had nearly half the pages torn out-most likely by Stanton containing information he did not want anyone else to see. The guard that was supposed to be standing at the door of the Presidential Box wasn't there-he somehow decided or was bribed to go next door to a saloon. What's amazing is Booth's co-conspirators were so incompetent it's a wonder no one knew about their meetings and plans. I do know this-Lincoln turned down offers from the banksters of Europe of high interest loans to pay for the war, eventually refusing to even see them as they were very persistent. Lincoln instead went with the greenback idea. With the war over and Reconstruction looming-they approached Lincoln yet again and he refused. A couple of weeks later he's assassinated. One thing is certain, his death was the worst thing that could have happened for the South as Lincoln wanted to 'let 'em up easy' and was planning to spend hundred of millions for Reconstruction. When he died, the voice of reason and his control over the Radicals and Northern banks was gone. Lincoln understood change had to be moderate and controlled. Radical changes usually opened up deep wounds that never quite heal-as was the case with the South for nearly a century afterward.
Freemasons killed Lincoln. Stanton and Seward were the principal culprits. It was planned well ahead of time. Lincoln would have been fine with Hannibal Hamlin as his VP for the 2nd term, but it was Seward who whispered to the Party that Johnson was Lincoln's preferred choice. Seward was lying, one of his habits.
@@aloyisiuspeters8913 Hannibal Hamlin would have been a much stronger President than poor Johnson who was put in THE worst position possible. I always felt sorry for Johnson who was a loyal Southerner.
I'd like to have seen Booth try to truss up 6'4" frontier-town wrestling champ Abe Lincoln and "lower him to the stage". Abe so appreciated a laugh he might have commuted the sentence.
In a way, Mary Lincoln was indirectely responsible for her own husband's death: if she had been a less volatile, less self centered woman, Julia Grant would not have wanted to avoid the evening at the theatre..and the Grants would have attended.and The General might been able to prevent the assassination by having a greater guard detail for the box--he would have questioned the non-existant security detail. I don't think Grant would have been more able to effect the outcome in other depts...history and the fortunes of a nation--still-- depend on such tragic details...
windstorm1000 Wow now that's specious logic if I ever heard it. If Mary had ordered what little protection Lincoln had that night, bodyguard John Parker, off the job then she'd be indirectly responsible.
How could Grant have stopped the assassination if he had been there? He would not have been aware of Booth's presence in the presidential box until the shot was fired. Booth sneaked into the box stealthily when the audience was laughing loudly at a particular line. Even Lincoln would not have heard him. Rathbone reacted only after Lincoln had been mortally wounded.
Grant had his own security and bodyguards. Lincoln had only one bodyguard who left his post so he could watch the play. Theoretically, if Grant had been there, his bodyguards could have stopped the assassination.
@@fire1937 It was to relieve the pressure that built up in his brain from the wound, when pressure was relieved his brain functioned better allowing him to breath.
troy smith Mrs. Todd wasn’t treated very well in Washington. She was from the South and they never gave her a chance. The Lincoln’s weren’t very wealthy and socially didn’t fit in. She spent money on a dilapidated White House, yet people felt the money was needed for defense. She didn’t have a social secretary to aide her in her role as First Lady. One of her children lay dying in the White House, while She had to host a dinner. Truly she needed help and a friend and she had neither.
True but if Mrs. Limcoln and Mrs.Grant got a long I'm sure Mrs.Grant would not made up a excuse to not join them that day that all im saying sure she had a hard time but if Lincoln had live Mrs Lincoln would be remembered better
Karma, Lincoln got his. Lee and Davis were found not guilty and lived out their days. Old dishonest Abe took one in the head. The spin the Feds put on the Civil War proves that the winner of a conflict always write the "facts" their way.
For anyone interested in history check out American experience The killing of President Garfield it is 1 of the best documentaries I've ever seen.Garfield has been utterly forgotten but very interesting look at American politics back then.
Lincoln was the 16th President of the USA from 1860 to 1865. The Civil War took place during his presidency. It is most unfortunate that you did not learn your American history while in school.
John Wilkes Booth was the first actor known who had the idea of flying down onto the stage suspended on wires to make a grand entrance. The other actors thought he was crazy. Booth also came up with the idea of talking on stage in a more normal voice, like real people talk, instead of the greatly exaggerated manner that lines were delivered at that time. They thought he was crazy for that also.
So you think someone who worked their whole life to deport all blacks was a 'great president'? He also imprisoned 14,000 newspaper and magazine men in the NORTH because they disagreed with him, and shuttered over 300 of them. Read about him. Far from great.
The US penny with Lincoln’s image will soon be discontinued. The mint currently makes very few 2018 pennies. It cost over 1.5 cents to make every penny out of zinc. Likely starting in 2019 the lowest denomination will be the nickel and the new ones will be made out of steel and coated.
According to witnesses the pillow his head rested on was soaked with blood and it pooled under the bed. Granted it was from the repeated probing and opening of the head wound as described in the video, but Lincoln bled quite a bit. An interesting fact for those visiting Ford's Theater, with very few exceptions (at least one of the doors into the booth is original, the chair he was sitting in survives though it is not in the theater) little of what you see is from Lincoln's time, the theater suffered a partial collapse of the second floor and later was gutted and rebuilt as it was in poor condition.
Everyone heard about the similarities between Lincoln and Kennedy, but did you know that before he was assassinated, Lincoln spent time in Monroe Maryland?
According to the book The Lincoln Conspiracy by David Balsiger published in 1977 Booth escaped Washington DC with a smuggler friend named Ed Henson and NOT David Herold. The book also says that Lewis Thornton Powell and Lewis Payne were 2 different people and although Lewis Powell carried out the attack on Steward Lewis Payne was found guilty. The book says confession statements by O'Laughlin and Atzerodt state that Payne and Powell were separate individuals. Evidence indicates that Payne was arrested and framed for his cousin, Powell's evil deed. Is any of this true? These facts in The Lincoln Conspiracy book differ from what I have read in all the other Lincoln Assassination books. The Lincoln Conspiracy book also says a man named James William Boyd was killed in Garrett's barn ant NOT Booth. Is that true?
Just because you see a black gentleman's felt hat does not mean they were all top hats we did not clearly all wear top hats they were not the common black dress gentleman's hat of the era
Don’t you know that Lincoln avoided the South’s surrendering party for months. Lincoln felt that the “Emancipation Proclamation” would not past if the war was over. Over those passing months 55,000 more soldiers died, totaling 750,000 solders killed. Thank you Lincoln.
You don't know what you're talking about. The emancipation proclamation was an executive order. It didn't get "passed." Lincoln issued it on January 1, 1863. The war didn't end for another 2 1/2 years.
In my opinion, the greatest contribution the late great Lincoln gave to the world, was his impeccable beard and hat style. The hat is something I could probably buy, but the beard for me is unattainable, because of lack of facial hair and Lincolnian manliness. So sad.
A remarkable man who suffered a tragic fate. Fun fact, Elvis and Lincoln were distantly related. Lincoln's great-great grandfather, Isaiah Harrison, was an ancestor to E. Elvis was also related to Jimmy Carter, but that's not as impressive
Lincoln was a monster. Read Thomas DiLorenzo’s “The Real Lincoln” to see for yourself. Personally, Lincoln had it coming for the many lives that were lost on both sides. He could have ended the war.
It sounds to me like Booth's ego must have been massive. He thought the whole thing was a theatrical story. He wanted it all to be a big spectacle. It seemed like he had a good life as a renowned actor, so it makes no sense why he wanted to throw it all away.
Vincent Cuttolo Yep, twenty six, no wife, no fortune and a unstable career. The economy was in the dumps after the war and most people watched plays but didn’t want their families acting in them. It wasn’t a stable lifestyle and no guarantees there would be food on the table.
2:17 This is what would have happened months into his first term if he came right out and admitted his true feelings towards life in general and how although distinctions may appear so as to divide, all are born of the same light. This is why some individuals that are for the most part altruistic and empathetic at times may say outlandish and/or off-handed remarks., it keeps others (especially vindictive more-ons) guessing about their true intent. So if you all think you're capable of knowing someone living or dead, especially someone whose content of character remains undefinable., it's only because you're that inexperienced and are therefore unwilling to take responsibility for refining your own characters!
I was there when I was 8 years old back in 1959. I guess you could say it was one the best time in our country. The hate goes on and on though. I guess we just can't help being human. it seems to be the best we can do with ourselves.It sure does rock your faith and belief in a higher form in the image and likeness. That's scary 😵
I'm surprised that Lincoln wanted to give the African American's the vote (or at least some of them) I read somewhere that Lincoln suggested repatriating slaves back to Africa as the answer to freeing slaves. Can someone advise me if what I read was erroneous?
What you read is revisionist history that is 100% wrong, period. Lincoln was strongly opposed to slavery his entire life, so much in fact that he ended his relationship with his own father and would not allow him to be present at Lincoln's wedding to Mary Todd.
@@garylbb Mary Todd's family were southern, if you read carefully, his plan on blacks was to ship them to the south american jungles where he thought they would be happy , Lincoln was a Kentuckian, not Yankee , he wouldn't let the south leave for one reason only, and by the way, the south had a legal right to leave...it was all money
John Hunter he caught his spur on the bunting as he jumped off the balcony after shooting Lincoln and broke his leg when he landed. He limped off the stage
EVERYONE should go to Ford's Theatre in Wash DC and tour it. I put it off for 50 years, and finally went few years ago - it is kept in the exact way it was since the assassination. It is fascinating and like going back in time.
BabyBoomerChannel no not really. the theatre was turned into a warehouse for years and then reassembled back to the original state
BabyBoomerChannel of course, as you know, it's completely reconstructed since the entire inside collapsed after being used as a government office building.
And see The Petersen House across the street. You can go into the room where he died. Moving.
The Portrait of Washington is the same one though. And it has the chip in the frame from Booth's spur.
I never knew that. I'll look next time I'm there. I live about 15 minutes from DC.
I found out recently that Booth's brother had saved Lincoln's son's life, years later...
I can't believe the most remarkable fact of all: Lincoln had no protective security that evening to the extent that Booth simply strolled into the box with a loaded weapon cocked and ready.
It is a d?? Shame that people like that have a right to live here in ourrr country the USA he hated what President Lincoln stood for. An he did not think the black man had a God giving right to live an be free in ourrr country jesus was right on time i no mr Lincoln will make it to Jesus heaven that is what it is all about
@nakedBison69 Apparently that security man who abandoned the President that night was never prosecuted for dereliction of duty.
@@darcyperkins7041 Yes, Lincoln's officer that night was from the DC police force, however I think he was on the White House payroll. It's be a while since I read up on the assassination.
@@billolsen4360 he was out for a drink, and I’m not lying.
Actually that’s false, I’ve heard two different versions stating that his security were Law Enforcement officers and there was either only 1 that was asleep or he left to go to a bar, or there was 2 and 1 left to the bar and the other felled asleep and John walked right past him
He missed a very surprising fact. About a year before the assassination, a man standing on a very crowded train platform was attempting to board a boxcar with other passengers. But it was very crowded, with people pressed against the entrance to the car and others actually leaning against the car waiting for their turn to enter. This man saw a young man in his early 20's leaning against the same car he was trying to get into. Suddenly without warning, the train started moving forward, the engineer not realizing the boarding hadn't completed. At that moment, the young man leaning against the car was knocked off balance and fell down in between the moving car and the platform. The other man saw what had happened and quickly lunged into action - he reached down and grabbed the young man by his coat collar, yanking him up and out of his very soon to be death space.
The older man that had saved the young man from being crushed by the train that day was John Wilkes Booth's brother - Edwin Booth. And the young man he saved that day? Robert Lincoln, the eldest son of President Abraham Lincoln.
I have read that Robert Lincoln told that story many times, but Edwin Booth didn't take credit for saving him.
Edwin Booth didn't know who Robert Lincoln was, at least just by looking at him. So it's not surprising he didn't realize who he was at the time of the incident. In contrast, Edwin Booth was one of the most famous actors in America at that time, so Robert Lincoln DID recognize him. From wikipedia:
"Robert Lincoln recalled the incident in a 1909 letter to Richard Watson Gilder, editor of The Century Magazine:
*The incident occurred while a group of passengers were late at night purchasing their sleeping car places from the conductor who stood on the station platform at the entrance of the car. The platform was about the height of the car floor, and there was of course a narrow space between the platform and the car body. There was some crowding, and I happened to be pressed by it against the car body while waiting my turn. In this situation the train began to move, and by the motion I was twisted off my feet, and had dropped somewhat, with feet downward, into the open space, and was personally helpless, when my coat collar was vigorously seized and I was quickly pulled up and out to a secure footing on the platform. Upon turning to thank my rescuer I saw it was Edwin Booth, whose face was of course well known to me, and I expressed my gratitude to him, and in doing so, called him by name.*
Months later, while serving as an officer on the staff of General Ulysses S. Grant, Robert Lincoln recalled the incident to his fellow officer, Colonel Adam Badeau, who happened to be a friend of Edwin Booth. Badeau sent a letter to Booth, complimenting the actor for his heroism. Before receiving the letter, Booth had been unaware that the man whose life he had saved on the train platform had been the president's son. The incident was said to have been of some comfort to Edwin Booth following his brother's assassination of the president.[50][51] President Ulysses Grant also sent Booth a letter of gratitude for his action."
Well, this is CBS News, so we're lucky there's anything accurate in it at all; second, brevity was obviously a concern, so there's only so much to fit in.
that is true--but technically it was not part of the Lincoln assassination outlined here...
drott150 I love the way Robert Lincoln spoke. I suppose everyone spoke that way in those days. I wish I could talk like that on a regular basis. ❤
In Boston, I walk by the site of the Boston Museum. A 19th century theater where Booth performed many times. His last curtain call there was in the autumn of 1864. Walking by on cold chilly nights when few people are out. You can almost here him reciting his lines from Hamlet.
AssinnippiJack I can’t hear* anything til you learn how to spell
The loss of President Lincoln and years later, of President Kennedy, so very sad for Americans and for the world entire.
Guess Garfield and McKinley don't rate for you, eh?
@@christco120 Fair point, and they do. Garfield and McKinley two accomplished Ohioans, both lawyers and both having taken strong positions against slavery and toward equality. An assassination is a deeply sad event for all concerned, political leader, family, supporters, people and country.
@@dennismorris7573 my kids school here in Ohio is named after Mckinley
Lesson is keep the actors out of politics
Eddie R yep. Reagan started the long downhill spiral.
Amen
@@judebigelow2689 Reagan was the beginning of the end.
That’s something that I would like to see them respond to
Agreed. Sadly, two actors have become presidents.
When General Grant did not go to the play with the Lincoln's that night, another soldier was there, Major Henry Rathbone. If my sources are correct, Major Rathbone was a distant relative of the actor Basil Rathbone who gained fame in the part of Sherlock Holmes in the 1940's.
Major Rathbone did end up going crazy and was admitted to a mental hospital as was Mary Lincoln.
Harold Holzer a very interesting historian to hear. Love his take on things. Excellent speaker!
I saw Lincoln's chair in the Henry Ford Museum. There was definitely blood stains on it.
I'm sorry, but no. What you saw was hair dye. It wasn't very good back then and often got on the furniture.
@@philsmgb4393 Interesting
You are correct!!!@@philsmgb4393
Saw the chair Clearly see blood stains
John Martin Technically you saw 'stains'. Someone else said they were blood stains. Unless you yourself tested the stains, or you saw the report of a qualified person, a forensic pathologist,. you just believe what your told. I'm not nitpicking, just saying that many times we accept what we're told for whatever reason. In this case there is nothing sinister in whether or not they're blood stains.
I had the opportunity to see James Whitmore as Will Rogers at Ford's. Great play, but those wooden seats are darn uncomfortable.
My high school students are always surprised to find out Booth was not quite 27 at the time.
Michael Brennan Amazing because he looks like he’s 50!
He was 2 weeks shy of his 27th birthday when he died. The Civil War was a hard time for everyone, which made people age rapidly, to include John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln was 56 when he died and looked like he was in his 70s.
@@ellington1 he didn’t look THAT OLD. But back then times were harder so people in general looked older than what they were. Now we are spoiled and have plastic surgery.
I like hearing these historians speak. They always sound so excited about whatever it is they are talking about.
Well, I learned something new today. Thank you.
Brian Williams was there!
Wow! I didn't know that!
So was Bill O'Rielly, before he was in the Flaklands.
ROFLMAO 😆 😆 😆
O'Reilly bragged about Killing Lincoln
Yes and thanks go to Mr. Williams because without him, we would have never known the truth that the RUSSIANS DID IT!!
This is like the NY and Hollywood actors today.
I got a Ford ad before watching....
I will always remember and hold dear Abraham Lincoln's most famous quote - "Don't believe everything you read or see on the internet."
Normie
He must have traveled in a Delorean to know about the internet
the gentleman 'thought' it was 'possible' that he 'may' have wanted to do 'something'... Boy, if ever there was a declarative statement...
lol sound a bit like the alien channel on discovery
If you want to read about Lincoln's Hanks family history, go to Abraham Lincoln's Hanks Family Genealogy.
Booth shot from a theater and ran into a warehouse. Oswald shot from a warehouse and ran into a theater. Kennedy was elected in 1960. Lincoln in 1860. Both had vice-presidents named Johnson. There is a lot more.
.. "you sockdologizing, old man-trap!"
There's a brewery in Abilene, TX, bearing this name, and I was surprised when I visited that they were unaware of the word's use in the Lincoln assassination. Instead, the term apparently sees use over at Dyess AFB, so "Sockdolager Brewing Company" it was, referring to someone special or exceptional. Nice folks, good beer, if you are ever in that neck of the woods. FWIW, they say the last syllable with a hard -g-, like "Grrr."
Booth was a son of Cain, a believer in owning other human beings.
you mean a Democrat?
@@JoshuaPaulHollenbeck
Yeah a conservative Democrat ;)
@@dabigcheezprod whats the wink for?
@@JoshuaPaulHollenbeck
;)
@@dabigcheezprod 8)
I have a ticket for a play at the theater next month.
It's called "Silent Sky." It's about a pioneer woman astronomer.
Lincoln was an amazing human being. How many human beings do you know that have lungs in their skull?
ThatGuy Haha!
Lol he meant the doctor would relieve a blood clot in Lincoln’s head which would help him breathe better. The wound was causing him to not be able to breathe
The Booths were a famous acting family so that is not surprising
these are actual new facts to me! i want more!
Pretty sure JWB colluded with Russia
Russia! Russia! Russia! lol
Stuck their fingers in his head wound to release his lungs? Yeah, that's not how it works. (RN here)
Wait a minute, President Lincoln's been shot....?
Yes. Remarkably, the Russians did it.
Hillary was there too....but she hit the tarmac running as bullets whizzed about.
I BELIEVE SHE WAS THERE.
Trump was nowhere to be found, he was healing his bone spurs for the 4th time.
This country had and in my opinion never will again the greatest president to have ever lead this country in Abraham Lincoln.
Another interesting fact: John Wilkes Booths's real name was Botha. His father's grave is in a 'Jewish' cemetery.
I read that somewhere, too. I was amazed to find out that he was Jewish. It's kinda obvious, considering the dark looks and the aquiline nose.
@DonkeyLips McGee and he favored slavery.
Man, this video was mind blowing.
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I live in Arizona now but im from Memphis and every time i visit my home town i stop by the Lorraine motel the place were Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated and it still to this day gives me chills and every time i think of President Lincoln i think of Dr.Martin Luther King and vice versa...two great American trying to bring us all together killed by racist, insignificant bigots by the way im a 49yr old African American and i was raised to hate no one because of race or religion and we are all in this together and the racist hate the fact that they are in the small minority
@Polish Power I've heard that before my friend
To put Lincoln and MLK in the same sentence as equal is pure idiocracy.
@@robfolks your hate dosen't work on me especially the name calling because I spend my life respecting people of different races and teaching kids that we are all in this together while at the same time fighting racism and people who want to segregate us because they're miserably...Good day to you
How was it hard to believe that Lincoln saw Boothe in a play if he was a famous actor in D.C.?
It's an odd coincidence, not necessarily hard to believe.
Wow, lincoln watched a play with boothe init. Its not like boothe wasnt a well known actor back then...
Booth wanted to be well known now like every assassin since the beginning of time. That's their true motive. I don't believe that you or I would have ever heard of him if he hadn't killed the president.
The Booth family were super famous actors. Most likely we would still know the family name.
Yeah, he was the highest paid actor at the time. About 20K a year.
Sporting Primal His brother and Father were well known actors and very famous on the Stage.
Booth's supposed diary had nearly half the pages torn out-most likely by Stanton containing information he did not want anyone else to see. The guard that was supposed to be standing at the door of the Presidential Box wasn't there-he somehow decided or was bribed to go next door to a saloon. What's amazing is Booth's co-conspirators were so incompetent it's a wonder no one knew about their meetings and plans.
I do know this-Lincoln turned down offers from the banksters of Europe of high interest loans to pay for the war, eventually refusing to even see them as they were very persistent. Lincoln instead went with the greenback idea. With the war over and Reconstruction looming-they approached Lincoln yet again and he refused. A couple of weeks later he's assassinated. One thing is certain, his death was the worst thing that could have happened for the South as Lincoln wanted to 'let 'em up easy' and was planning to spend hundred of millions for Reconstruction. When he died, the voice of reason and his control over the Radicals and Northern banks was gone. Lincoln understood change had to be moderate and controlled. Radical changes usually opened up deep wounds that never quite heal-as was the case with the South for nearly a century afterward.
Freemasons killed Lincoln. Stanton and Seward were the principal culprits. It was planned well ahead of time. Lincoln would have been fine with Hannibal Hamlin as his VP for the 2nd term, but it was Seward who whispered to the Party that Johnson was Lincoln's preferred choice. Seward was lying, one of his habits.
@@aloyisiuspeters8913 Hannibal Hamlin would have been a much stronger President than poor Johnson who was put in THE worst position possible. I always felt sorry for Johnson who was a loyal Southerner.
I'd like to have seen Booth try to truss up 6'4" frontier-town wrestling champ Abe Lincoln and "lower him to the stage". Abe so appreciated a laugh he might have commuted the sentence.
Also Vampire Slayer.
Booth was very strong as well. He beat the crap out of a general after all.
"Those skinny guys fight til their burger". FIGHT CLUB
At this point in time Lincoln was not much of a frontier-town wrestling champ. It'd been at least half a decade since he had down any of that.
Interesting fact, President Ford drove a Lincoln
Ha ha
1865 as 1963
"Intelligence": Hit Men for Wall Street.
Charles Chiniquy knew all about it. All of it.
I need more of this on TH-cam
Every time I think of Booth. It reminds me roof in Charleston sc two sad of history. God bless this country.
Bless Lincoln
Where is this office give me all details please ?
This is basically what I was taught in elementary school. Wasn't everyone. Not a mention of the failed fires and attacks his accomplices had done..
Ahh, so people in the entertainment industry always hated Republican presidents.
not bad
JFK was a Democrat.
JFK wasn't killed by an actor.
Republicans used to be the liberal party.
The party’s are not monoliths
In a way, Mary Lincoln was indirectely responsible for her own husband's death: if she had been a less volatile, less self centered woman, Julia Grant would not have wanted to avoid the evening at the theatre..and the Grants would have attended.and The General might been able to prevent the assassination by having a greater guard detail for the box--he would have questioned the non-existant security detail. I don't think Grant would have been more able to effect the outcome in other depts...history and the fortunes of a nation--still-- depend on such tragic details...
windstorm1000 Wow now that's specious logic if I ever heard it. If Mary had ordered what little protection Lincoln had that night, bodyguard John Parker, off the job then she'd be indirectly responsible.
And it's not like the White House was a high-security area back then anyway. That much protection for the President just wasn't a thing.
What if he just hadn't gone to the theater ? They are endless
How could Grant have stopped the assassination if he had been there? He would not have been aware of Booth's presence in the presidential box until the shot was fired. Booth sneaked into the box stealthily when the audience was laughing loudly at a particular line. Even Lincoln would not have heard him. Rathbone reacted only after Lincoln had been mortally wounded.
Grant had his own security and bodyguards. Lincoln had only one bodyguard who left his post so he could watch the play. Theoretically, if Grant had been there, his bodyguards could have stopped the assassination.
The guard had one job GUARD THE DOOR
Hey he kept his word.
"Arpil?" One word...proofreader.
And this is CBS News no less!
also they stuck in a finger so Lincoln could breath ... He was shot in the head, the lungs are in the chest ... rather long finger
@@jamesdolph437 Even back then (2015) CBS was promoting FAKE NEWS!
@5:35 Why would doctors have to release pressure so Lincoln could breathe, if Lincoln was shot in the head?
Milkman4279 wondering that myself.
@@fire1937 It was to relieve the pressure that built up in his brain from the wound, when pressure was relieved his brain functioned better allowing him to breath.
I wish Grant was with Lincoln that day he should of been with the President too bad Mary Todd was so hard to get along with
wut
troy smith Mrs. Todd wasn’t treated very well in Washington. She was from the South and they never gave her a chance. The Lincoln’s weren’t very wealthy and socially didn’t fit in. She spent money on a dilapidated White House, yet people felt the money was needed for defense. She didn’t have a social secretary to aide her in her role as First Lady. One of her children lay dying in the White House, while She had to host a dinner. Truly she needed help and a friend and she had neither.
Have
True but if Mrs. Limcoln and Mrs.Grant got a long I'm sure Mrs.Grant would not made up a excuse to not join them that day that all im saying sure she had a hard time but if Lincoln had live Mrs Lincoln would be remembered better
Holzer is a national treasure.
Cnn said it’s was Russia
Dobs R and Fox News blamed Obama.
Dobs R unlike Benghazi and Hillary's emails, Russian collusion and the orangutan's obstruction are REAL!!
Nyah. Nyah. Nyah Nyah Nyah.
Frank Scigliano
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Because, it's Trump's fault and you're a racist.
lololol.. and they refused to retract the story
Karma, Lincoln got his. Lee and Davis were found not guilty and lived out their days. Old dishonest Abe took one in the head. The spin the Feds put on the Civil War proves that the winner of a conflict always write the "facts" their way.
For anyone interested in history check out
American experience
The killing of President Garfield it is 1 of the best documentaries I've ever seen.Garfield has been utterly forgotten but very interesting look at American politics back then.
I read the book it was awesome
Absolutely. Garfield would have been a great president.
Shortly after Lee's surrender to Grant, Lincoln was murdered. Grant controlled Abe's security. Could Caesar have faked his own Death?
Cool stuff.
#6: "Hey Actey! Actey! Rewind the play five minutes!"
Wkuk is great
#1 not a surprise
None of them were a "surprise". #'s 2 & 5 are the only ones I didn't already know but they were kind of ho-hum.
Lincoln was the 16th President of the USA from 1860 to 1865. The Civil War took place during his presidency. It is most unfortunate that you did not learn your American history while in school.
My reply was meant for another person's comment before yours.
0:20 "Fact 1: Lincoln once saw John Wilkes Booth in A👁🗨⦮ŁÆY'
David Hogg saw the whole thing.
How was the play?
John Wilkes Booth was the first actor known who had the idea of flying down onto the stage suspended on wires to make a grand entrance. The other actors thought he was crazy. Booth also came up with the idea of talking on stage in a more normal voice, like real people talk, instead of the greatly exaggerated manner that lines were delivered at that time. They thought he was crazy for that also.
Depends on what the definition of is, is. . .
Lincoln is the greatest American president. He had the patience of a saint to be married to Mary Todd. She had issues.
Much like Hillary!
Lincoln had less 'issues' with Mary Todd then the rapist Bill Clinton ever had with that malignant narcissist Hillary .. . .
So you think someone who worked their whole life to deport all blacks was a 'great president'? He also imprisoned 14,000 newspaper and magazine men in the NORTH because they disagreed with him, and shuttered over 300 of them. Read about him. Far from great.
@@tgp-rq2wi why are you posting lies?
@@Semprasectum Look it up. I'll wait for your applogy.
The US penny with Lincoln’s image will soon be discontinued. The mint currently makes very few 2018 pennies. It cost over 1.5 cents to make every penny out of zinc. Likely starting in 2019 the lowest denomination will be the nickel and the new ones will be made out of steel and coated.
It cost.64cents+ several years ago to mint each penny.
🇺🇸is ran by fiduciary idiots
According to witnesses the pillow his head rested on was soaked with blood and it pooled under the bed. Granted it was from the repeated probing and opening of the head wound as described in the video, but Lincoln bled quite a bit. An interesting fact for those visiting Ford's Theater, with very few exceptions (at least one of the doors into the booth is original, the chair he was sitting in survives though it is not in the theater) little of what you see is from Lincoln's time, the theater suffered a partial collapse of the second floor and later was gutted and rebuilt as it was in poor condition.
Everyone heard about the similarities between Lincoln and Kennedy, but did you know that before he was assassinated, Lincoln spent time in Monroe Maryland?
People would be surprised to learn that there's actually no evidence that Kennedy was ever in Marilyn Monroe.
Cool story, bro.
What about the McRib?
According to the book The Lincoln Conspiracy by David Balsiger published in 1977 Booth escaped Washington DC with a smuggler friend named Ed Henson and NOT David Herold. The book also says that Lewis Thornton Powell and Lewis Payne were 2 different people and although Lewis Powell carried out the attack on Steward Lewis Payne was found guilty. The book says confession statements by O'Laughlin and Atzerodt state that Payne and Powell were separate individuals. Evidence indicates that Payne was arrested and framed for his cousin, Powell's evil deed. Is any of this true? These facts in The Lincoln Conspiracy book differ from what I have read in all the other Lincoln Assassination books. The Lincoln Conspiracy book also says a man named James William Boyd was killed in Garrett's barn ant NOT Booth. Is that true?
2:07. really, booth on balcony wearing a top hat like the other 25 guys wearing a top hat? 20/05 vision must be nice
Just because you see a black gentleman's felt hat does not mean they were all top hats we did not clearly all wear top hats they were not the common black dress gentleman's hat of the era
The guy not wearing a top hat looked more like Booth.
it's great that this playhouse is still in use I look forward to going there one day
Things they don’t teach you in school.
I learned this in school.
Don’t you know that Lincoln avoided the South’s surrendering party for months. Lincoln felt that the “Emancipation Proclamation” would not past if the war was over. Over those passing months 55,000 more soldiers died, totaling 750,000 solders killed. Thank you Lincoln.
That is blatantly false. Like, not even a shred of truth to this statement whatsoever.
christco120 You need to read your history books. 100 % all truth.
I will make it easy on you, if you don’t read history. See the movie “Lincoln” on demand staring Daniel Day-Lewis 2012.
christco120 I will make it easy on you, if you don’t read history. See the movie “Lincoln” on demand staring Daniel Day-Lewis 2012.
You don't know what you're talking about. The emancipation proclamation was an executive order. It didn't get "passed." Lincoln issued it on January 1, 1863. The war didn't end for another 2 1/2 years.
Interesting
In my opinion, the greatest contribution the late great Lincoln gave to the world, was his impeccable beard and hat style. The hat is something I could probably buy, but the beard for me is unattainable, because of lack of facial hair and Lincolnian manliness. So sad.
A remarkable man who suffered a tragic fate. Fun fact, Elvis and Lincoln were distantly related. Lincoln's great-great grandfather, Isaiah Harrison, was an ancestor to E. Elvis was also related to Jimmy Carter, but that's not as impressive
Why was Laura Keane cradling the president's head in her lap? Where was Mary?
Surprise fact #6.
Bullet grazed Abe's head.
He lived to a ripe old 86.
In protective anonymity of course.
Lincoln was a monster. Read Thomas DiLorenzo’s “The Real Lincoln” to see for yourself.
Personally, Lincoln had it coming for the many lives that were lost on both sides. He could have ended the war.
5:05 how much is that dress I wonder
It sounds to me like Booth's ego must have been massive. He thought the whole thing was a theatrical story. He wanted it all to be a big spectacle. It seemed like he had a good life as a renowned actor, so it makes no sense why he wanted to throw it all away.
Gauche He was getting older and people likely prayed upon his vanity. Once his looks went, his career would have too and he knew nothing else.
Vincent Cuttolo Yep, twenty six, no wife, no fortune and a unstable career. The economy was in the dumps after the war and most people watched plays but didn’t want their families acting in them. It wasn’t a stable lifestyle and no guarantees there would be food on the table.
Booth was as popular of an actor as Alec Baldwin is today...………..HMMMmmmmmm.
2:17
This is what would have happened months into his first term if he came right out and admitted his true feelings towards life in general and how although distinctions may appear so as to divide, all are born of the same light.
This is why some individuals that are for the most part altruistic and empathetic at times may say outlandish and/or off-handed remarks., it keeps others (especially vindictive more-ons) guessing about their true intent.
So if you all think you're capable of knowing someone living or dead, especially someone whose content of character remains undefinable., it's only because you're that inexperienced and are therefore unwilling to take responsibility for refining your own characters!
I was there when I was 8 years old back in 1959. I guess you could say it was one the best time in our country. The hate goes on and on though. I guess we just can't help being human. it seems to be the best we can do with ourselves.It sure does rock your faith and belief in a higher form in the image and likeness. That's scary 😵
LONG BRANCH!!!
Before watching....im gonna guess that number 1 is that he died
booth was the first pez dispenser
I'm surprised that Lincoln wanted to give the African American's the vote (or at least some of them)
I read somewhere that Lincoln suggested repatriating slaves back to Africa as the answer to freeing slaves.
Can someone advise me if what I read was erroneous?
What you read is revisionist history that is 100% wrong, period. Lincoln was strongly opposed to slavery his entire life, so much in fact that he ended his relationship with his own father and would not allow him to be present at Lincoln's wedding to Mary Todd.
Letting the go with no formal education is still affecting black families to this day.
@@garylbb Mary Todd's family were southern, if you read carefully, his plan on blacks was to ship them to the south american jungles where he thought they would be happy , Lincoln was a Kentuckian, not Yankee , he wouldn't let the south leave for one reason only, and by the way, the south had a legal right to leave...it was all money
Five fun facts about Lincoln's assassination
...Was leader of that, there "northern aggression" dear sir.
Abraham Lincoln was a great President & why would John Booth killed President Lincoln
Alexis Kinsey booth didn’t like the outcome of the civil war.
Target practice.
no one reads anymore. thus we're doomed.
Booth was upset when Lincoln, during his 2nd inaugural speech,
mentioned giving blacks the right to vote.
Not sure about all that.but interesting nonetheless.
My first car was a yellow '76 Ford Lincoln MK4 with a 460 big block. Now you know.
Did Booth break his leg at Ford theatre, or was it broken when his horse fell on him later?!
John Hunter he caught his spur on the bunting as he jumped off the balcony after shooting Lincoln and broke his leg when he landed. He limped off the stage
It's just secret societies fighting for power in a game most of the world are not privy to.
Rabbi Goldstienburgowitz exactly
Rabbi Goldstienburgowitz don’t buy cereal. The boxes are listening to us!😂 you secret society theorists are all crazy!
Skull & Bones= real estate secret society. Look up ted Gunderson man