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How was President Abraham Lincoln murdered on Good Friday 1865, at Ford’s Theatre, just five days after Robert E. Lee’s surrender? Who was John Wilkes Booth, the racist actor with southern sympathies, who assassinated him? How did he escape before the shocked eyes of the packed theatre, and evade his captors to go on the run? Would they get him in the end? And, what were the long term repercussions of Lincoln’s assassination for the future of race relations in the USA?

Join Dominic and Tom as they discuss, in remarkable detail, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the man who did it, and the thrilling manhunt that ensued, the impact of Lincoln’s death upon the future of America.

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00:00 Introduction: Lincoln’s assassination, aftermath, funeral, and manhunt preview
02:05 Booth’s acting style and background recap
03:05 Setting the scene at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865
07:42 The conspiracy to assassinate multiple leaders
08:40 Booth approaches the presidential box
09:47 Peephole myth and actual origin
10:25 Booth waits for the comedic punchline in the play
11:05 The killer strikes
12:40 Booth’s leap to the stage and leg injury
13:34 Conflicting eyewitness accounts of Booth’s words
14:59 Booth escapes
16:20 Scene in the presidential box after the shooting
18:56 Decision to move Lincoln across the street
19:42 Lincoln taken to the Petersen House
20:28 Mary Lincoln’s shock and grief
21:03 Edwin Stanton takes charge
22:06 Lincoln’s final hours and Mary’s exclusion from the room
22:57 Lincoln dies: “Now he belongs to the ages”
23:09 Mary Lincoln’s reaction and later accusations of theft
24:23 Tad Lincoln’s grief and final words about his father
26:02 Public mourning and funeral arrangements
28:06 Lincoln’s body returns to Illinois
28:41 Surfshark
30:00 Manhunt begins for John Wilkes Booth
31:30 Failed assassination of VP Johnson by Atzerodt
32:07 Lewis Powell’s attack on Secretary Seward
33:07 Powell’s escape and arrest
34:35 Execution of co-conspirators
34:53 Booth’s escape route
48:54 Union cavalry arrives
53:39 Booth’s self-mythologizing as “American Brutus”
54:21 Did Lincoln’s death change history?
55:59 Radical Republican reactions to Lincoln’s death
57:28 The limits of one man’s power to change race relations
58:39 Lincoln’s martyrdom and lasting reputation
1:00:44 Tolstoy’s tribute to Lincoln

Producer: Theo Young-Smith
Assistant Producer: Tabby Syrett
Social Producer: Harry Balden
Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor