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[Narrator] Ladies and gentlemen,

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everyone sitting in this
audience has been exposed

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to the traditional story
of the assassination

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of President Lincoln.

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For over a century history
books have taught us

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that the murder was
committed by a crazed actor

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named John Wilkes Booth.

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The history books go on o say

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a few Southern rebels
helped him and no one else.

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The motion picture you are
about to see will shock you

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<i>because the true story of
President Lincoln's assassination</i>

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cannot be found in any history book.

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It is a story of corruption,
treachery and coverup.

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It is a story every American
has the right to know.

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(gentle upbeat music)

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(gentle upbeat music continues}

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Open the door.

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(gentle upbeat music)

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Colonel Baker.

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(dramatic music)

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(footsteps tapping)

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I have a summons for
the following prisoners.

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Samuel Arnold,

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Dr. Samuel Mudd,

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Edward Spangler,

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Michael O'Laughlen,

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George Atzerodt,

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Lewis Paine,

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David Herold,

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Mary Surratt.

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[Judge] Order, order in court.

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(people speaking indistinctly}

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(gavel banging)

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[Narrator] This is how it began.

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The trial of eight conspirators

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for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

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On this hot muggy day in May, 1865,

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the government would present its case

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to a handpicked military commission.

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They would be told that these
seven men and one woman,

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along with John Wilkes
Booth, Jefferson Davis

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and other rebel leaders
conspired to murder

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<i>the president of the United States.</i>

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But were the defendants really guilty?

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To find out, we must look at the events

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leading up to this trial.

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They began in the fall of 1864.

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(gentle upbeat music)

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(horse hooves clopping}

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Here on a bloody bat tie field,

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the Civil War is well
into its fourth year.

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And though almost 600,000
men have been killed,

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there seems no end of sight.

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Then on September 2nd,
after weeks of fighting,

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General Sherman finally captures Atlanta.

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Hope sweeps across the North,

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And in November, President
Abraham Lincoln is reelected.

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(fire raging)

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(people speaking indistinctly}

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At the White House, a reception is held

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to honor the president.

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Senators, congressmen, military
officers and cabinet members

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arrive to share in the joy
of Lincoln's reelection

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and the jubilation at the now

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inevitable defeat of the South.

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(gentle upbeat music)

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Mr. Stanton.

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Colonel Baker.

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Mr. President.

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Well sir, what's the news
from the War Department?

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Any late word from the General Sherman.

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Good news.

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Sherman's well on his way to Savannah.

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By all accounts, he's
leaving hardly enough behind

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to feed a crow.

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(Stanton laughing)

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That is good news, Mr. Secretary,
and I'm grateful for it.

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If we must starve the South
to win the war quickly,

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then let Sherman get on with it.

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But I can find no joy in it.

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Well, a little hate can
be a mighty handy thing.

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How could we win wars without it?

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You may be right Mr. Stanton.

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We may need hate to win the war,

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but we're going to need a lot
of trust to win the peace.

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Don't you agree Colonel Baker?

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If we were all to trust
one another, Mr. President,

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I'm afraid I'd be out of a job.

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Who would need the
National Detective Police?

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Well, for a man of your talents,

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I'm sure we could find
something better to do

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then the clapping lot of
harmless citizens in jail.

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Your pardon, Mr. President,
scarcely harmless

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with rebel spies everywhere
plotting in Montreal,

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trying to burn New York City
planning God knows what crimes.

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Who can afford the risks, sir?

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Every course has its own risks, Colonel.

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Mr. President.

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(gentle upbeat music)

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I take it you agree
with the colonel's views?

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Most certainly.

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I wouldn't trust half
the people in this room,

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beginning with Colonel Baker himself.

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You've got as many enemies
as friends here tonight.

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Adversaries, perhaps not enemies, Lamon.

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Trust doesn't require agreement,

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but the heavens of democracy

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is the most disagreeable
form of government there is.

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The best.

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I don't care what you call 'em,

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I wouldn't turn my back on one of 'em.

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[Narrator] Ward Lamon
has reason to be worried.

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For even on this night of
Lincoln's reelection celebration,

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treachery raises its ugly head.

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One of the president�s
most trusted associates,

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Senator John Conness from California,

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has chosen not to attend the party.

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Instead, he has a business
meeting with an actor

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named John Wilkes Booth.

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I've heard that in your repertoire,

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you sometimes play roles not on the stage.

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Or am I speaking too boldly?

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I would say that smuggling
and blockade running

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are the biggest business in
Maryland as of this moment.

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Then I assume you might
be interested in a proposal.

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I haven't heard it yet.

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What do you have to offer?

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The passwords and the post
roads are changed daily.

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Anew list is issued every six weeks

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by my Senate committee.

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I imagine such a list would
have great importance,

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particularly in bulk shipments.

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How much?

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$3,000 per list.

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You shall have an answer in two days.

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Excellent.

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After all time is of the essence.

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Indeed it is if the
South is yet to be saved.

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(John laughing})

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Well, I don't care who wins this war,

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but the war will end and
before too long I think,

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and with it will end these
golden opportunities.

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That is your only interest?

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Hmm, I'm simply a
man with a small pocket

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and a large need.

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And you, I take it you consider
yourself a rebel patriot.

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I shall serve the
South to my dying breath.

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(John laughing})

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Right.

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I should hate to see you die so young.

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The South is passing to Booth.

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Soon it'll be gone like
last night's dream.

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I do not accept your cynicism, sir.

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The South is far from lost.

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I tell you Conness, great
and unexpected events

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may yet happen.

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Events that overnight can change

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the entire course of the war.

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In fact, I'll wager on it.

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(dramatic music)

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[Narrator] it is just three days

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after Booth's meeting with Conness.

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And the reason for Booth's
confidence becomes clear.

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For tonight with the help
of a Southern sympathizer

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named Lewis Paine, Booth
plans to kidnap the president,

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All right, Lewis, I'll
take the rider on the left.

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Yours is the one on the right.

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But remember I'll grab the president.

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(gun cocking)

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(dramatic music)

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(horse hooves clopping}

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(horse hooves clopping}

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(dramatic music)

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Wait, who's there?

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(horse neighing)

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They've seen us.

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Watch out Mr. President.

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(guns firing}

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(dramatic music)

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(horse neighing)

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(guns firing}

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(dramatic music)

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(horse hooves clopping}

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Come on.

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Look out.

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Are you all right?

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(dramatic music)

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All right, Lewis, we'll
meet again tomorrow.

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(dramatic music)

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(door knocking})

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Mr. Booth.

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Colonel Baker, National
Detective Police, may I come in?

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Well, yes, of course.

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Come in, come in.

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(footsteps tapping)

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I see you've spent the
night in hard travel.

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No, not at all.

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I occasionally enjoy an
early morning stroll.

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Excellent hotel service here.

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The bed's already been made.

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I requested it.

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For a man of your profession,
isn't that rather unusual?

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I thought all you theater
people slept late.

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I am not presently
engaged in playing a role.

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Planning a trip?

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No.

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Colonel Baker, may I inquire

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as to the purpose of this visit?

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Yes.

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I have messages from your friends.

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Friends?

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I don't understand.

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Perhaps this will make things clear.

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Letters from Confederate leaders,

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Jefferson Davis, Judea Benjamin.

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From Richmond?

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Read them.

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I expect you'll have an answer.

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I'm prepared to transmit it for you.

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Yes, yes, of course.

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Of course.

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Now this must reach Richmond in all haste.

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Oh it shall.

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And this,

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this is for you.

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I was instructed to give you money.

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Mr. Booth, I'm sure you must find

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the circumstances of
my visit most unusual.

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May I simply say that the times we live in

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are extraordinary, aren't they?

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Until we meet again.

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(dramatic music)

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[Narrator] Unknown to Booth,

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Colonel Baker's visit was more

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than the delivery of a few letters

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his elaborate spy network had intercepted.

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Based on information given
him by Senator Conness,

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Baker's real mission
was to verify suspicions

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held by Conness and Secretary of War,

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Edwin McMasters Stanton.

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Bad news from the front?

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(birds chirping)

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Excellent news.

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Good.

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That should help reduce your problems.

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On the contrary.

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Victory at this moment would
be the greatest calamity

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that could befall the nation.

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The problem at this moment,
Colonel, is not the South.

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The problem is the president.

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All right, what's the latest news

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on your wayward actor Booth?

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I don't know.

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He is still holding onto that scheme

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a few of those Maryland planters
have been dreaming about.

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Seize the president

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and make the North release
all rebel prisoners of war.

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He is bitten off more than he can chew.

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One thing to smuggle a
few bottles of quinine

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across the border,

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but it's quite another
to kidnap a president.

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Mm.

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Insanity.

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With Booth in there it certainly is.

270
00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:22,316
He's already failed in several attempts

271
00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:24,550
and he is just gonna keep on failing time

272
00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:26,198
after time, after time,

273
00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:29,313
but with someone else.

274
00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:32,159
What do you mean?

275
00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:37,030
Well, it would solve our
problem with the president,

276
00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:40,317
with the right man, eh, it could be done.

277
00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:43,871
With Lincoln removed from office,

278
00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:46,759
you'd be free to deal with
the South as you saw fit.

279
00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:50,879
No presidential interference
as you said, Mr. Secretary,

280
00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:52,917
victory would be a calamity.

281
00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:56,276
(birds chirping)

282
00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:58,556
Well, what would you like me to do?

283
00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:01,319
Sit down.

284
00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:05,033
(dramatic music)

285
00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:22,357
Sorry to interrupt your
schedules, gentlemen,

286
00:17:22,360 --> 00:17:25,193
to ask you to come to this
meeting, but it's important.

287
00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:26,156
What's the matter?

288
00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:27,514
I just left Secretary Stanton,

289
00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:28,999
he's asked me to speak to you.

290
00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:33,276
At this point, it appears we're only weeks

291
00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:34,714
from the end of the war,

292
00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:38,319
but unless something happens
to change Lincoln's mind,

293
00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:39,435
the defeat of the South

294
00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:42,239
could have serious consequences for us.

295
00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:43,275
I don't understand.

296
00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:47,158
Senator Chandler to begin with,

297
00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:51,149
the president is about to ask congress

298
00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:53,629
to pay the South $400 million

299
00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:57,992
as compensation for freeing the slaves.

300
00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:00,877
Wouldn't be surprised
if next he didn't ask us

301
00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:03,190
to pay the South debts for running a war.

302
00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:05,589
But that's just the beginning, Colonel.

303
00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:07,318
If we can't stop Lincoln,

304
00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:10,517
he's gonna be giving the right
to vote back to the rebels.

305
00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:11,874
You realize what that means?

306
00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:15,674
It means there'll be 22
Southern Democratic Senators

307
00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:19,230
and 39 Democratic congressmen
back on Capitol Hill.

308
00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:20,992
Now you take all those votes,

309
00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,071
add them to the Northern Democrats

310
00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:26,796
and gentlemen, our ability

311
00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:30,031
to control the destiny of
this country will be over.

312
00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:33,715
To have spent untold wealth
and lives to win the war

313
00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:35,279
and then surrender the victory.

314
00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:37,998
It's madness.

315
00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,355
That's what the president is proposing.

316
00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:43,034
You can speculate all you want, Colonel,

317
00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:44,553
but there's nothing we can do.

318
00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:47,557
The secretary thinks there is.

319
00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:52,555
You see, we've uncovered a plot
to kidnap President Lincoln,

320
00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:54,234
Kidnap the president?

321
00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:56,079
Exactly.

322
00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,036
However, the man planning
it is not capable

323
00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:00,235
of carrying it out.

324
00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:01,310
Who is he?

325
00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:02,913
John Wilkes Booth.

326
00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:05,878
The actor, he could never pull it off.

327
00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:07,799
I agree.

328
00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:10,799
Someone else could.

329
00:19:14,360 --> 00:19:15,634
It's an intriguing idea.

330
00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:19,755
If President Lincoln were to be kidnapped,

331
00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:21,079
we could lay the entire blame

332
00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:24,835
on the shoulders of Jefferson
Davis, entire Confederacy.

333
00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:27,912
The American people, they'd be outraged

334
00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:31,834
at such a heinous act, they
would support you 100%.

335
00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:34,878
Then you could deal with
the South on your own terms,

336
00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:37,235
Congress would remain in friendly hands.

337
00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:39,880
So instead of giving
them money and the vote,

338
00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:43,229
we'd take what we please.

339
00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:46,396
Can it be done?

340
00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:48,835
Oh, I can find a man for the job.

341
00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:50,751
What are you going to do about Booth?

342
00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:55,470
Leave him to me.

343
00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:59,116
You can't be serious.

344
00:19:59,120 --> 00:20:00,838
Do you have a better idea?

345
00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:07,237
But what if something goes wrong?

346
00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:08,913
Nothing will go wrong.

347
00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:12,310
(dramatic music)

348
00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:13,319
So?

349
00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:16,953
(dramatic music)

350
00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:22,674
Representative Jillian?

351
00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:25,679
All right.

352
00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:29,869
But I don't like it.

353
00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:34,273
Secretary Stanton does.

354
00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:36,879
(dramatic music)

355
00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:39,474
[Narrator]Meanwhile, in
another part of Washington,

356
00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,039
Booth is preparing a new plan.

357
00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:44,156
Knowing that he needs more manpower,

358
00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:46,436
Booth enlists the help of John Surratt

359
00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:49,432
and quickly hires a group of conspirators.

360
00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:52,114
Michael O'Laughlen and Sam
Arnold are boyhood friends

361
00:20:52,120 --> 00:20:53,633
from Baltimore.

362
00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:56,279
George Atzerodt, a
German-born carriage maker

363
00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:58,749
at Port Tobacco, has a thriving business

364
00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:01,752
rowing Southern spies
across the lower Potomac.

365
00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:04,833
(door hinge creaking)

366
00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:09,275
Thank you Edward.

367
00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:10,319
[Narrator] Edward Spangler

368
00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:12,118
<i>is a stage hand at Ford's Theater.</i>

369
00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:14,515
(horse neighing)

370
00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:15,749
Let's go, Henson.

371
00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:17,439
[Narrator] Edward
Henson, a trusted member

372
00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:18,760
of Booth's smuggling group.

373
00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:25,796
From David Herold, a pharmacist clerk,

374
00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:28,952
will come some of the items
essential to the plot.

375
00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:31,793
(dramatic music)

376
00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:34,678
Booth will spend the next few weeks

377
00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:37,877
waiting for an opportunity
to kidnap the president,

378
00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:40,439
(dramatic music)

379
00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,080
(lock clanking)

380
00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:47,079
(dramatic music)

381
00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:38,959
Captain, thank you for
the use of your robbers.

382
00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:39,959
That'll be all.

383
00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:43,832
Captain James William Boyd.

384
00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:44,839
Yes sir.

385
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:47,198
I'm Colonel Baker.

386
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:49,919
Come in, please, sit down.

387
00:22:57,560 --> 00:22:59,198
Why are you limping?

388
00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,749
A bullet wound in my right leg.

389
00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:05,558
It bothers me from time to time.

390
00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:06,595
Nothing serious.

391
00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:09,511
You've been quite a letter writer.

392
00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:14,429
When you're a prisoner.

393
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,033
It helps to pass the time.

394
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:19,594
In December, you wrote
the prison superintendent.

395
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:22,159
Last month you sent a letter

396
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,879
to the Assistant Secretary
of War, Mr. Dana.

397
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:28,516
This morning you wrote
to Secretary Stanton.

398
00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:31,119
He's referred the matter to me.

399
00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:35,079
Well, I'm grateful for
your promptness, sir.

400
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,435
Well, the fact is we'd
already done some checking

401
00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,238
before your letter to the secretary.

402
00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,397
Wartime seems to suit
your talents, Captain.

403
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:48,395
Let's see, you served as
a Confederate secret agent

404
00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:51,996
in the border states,
mainly Kentucky, Tennessee.

405
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:57,472
You were captured in 1863 in
the company of two other spies.

406
00:23:58,560 --> 00:23:59,914
Both of the others were executed,

407
00:23:59,920 --> 00:24:02,639
but you were given a prison term.

408
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:03,639
Huh?

409
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:05,914
A little luck there, huh?

410
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:11,039
What I want to know,

411
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,394
you've been fighting the
Union for four years,

412
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:18,359
now you wanna work for us,

413
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:22,039
why?

414
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:26,075
I'll speak plainly.

415
00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:29,993
Only a fool goes on fighting

416
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,957
after he's had his brains knocked out.

417
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:37,031
Anybody can see that the
South has lost the war.

418
00:24:37,120 --> 00:24:39,634
But on one point, Captain Boyd,

419
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,240
I want you to be absolutely clear.

420
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,709
If ever you play false
with me, you're a dead man.

421
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,189
(dramatic music)

422
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,271
If I hadn't known the odds,

423
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,078
I wouldn't have written that letter.

424
00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:58,111
Yeah.

425
00:24:58,120 --> 00:24:59,758
(dramatic music)

426
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:01,910
Well now that leaves the oath.

427
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:03,558
Please stand.

428
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:05,471
Raise your right hand, repeat after me.

429
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,559
I, James William Boyd.

430
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:11,278
(dramatic music)

431
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:13,635
(horse hooves clopping}

432
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:18,199
Over the years, Thomas,

433
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,396
we've done a great deal
of business together

434
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,639
and I've grown to become
what I consider friends.

435
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,439
I'm proud to consider you
among my friends as well.

436
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,397
Oh yes.

437
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:30,231
Yeah.

438
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,675
Well, that's what makes this visit

439
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:37,072
somewhat uncomfortable for me, Thomas.

440
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:38,639
1, I don't understand.

441
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:43,156
You have a deal in the
works, I know nothing about,

442
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,674
involving that actor John Wilkes Booth.

443
00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:51,831
Well, Mr. Booth and I
have many business dealings.

444
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:53,114
Involving the president.

445
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,709
I don't think I quite follow you.

446
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:00,710
(Baker laughing)

447
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:02,757
Oddly enough, I don't
think you do either.

448
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:08,519
Thomas, you are making a big mistake,

449
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,155
but I'm not going to arrest you.

450
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:13,159
I'm gonna help you.

451
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:17,550
You see, I don't think
that Booth is capable

452
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:19,073
of the task you've given him.

453
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:22,113
I want to suggest a replacement.

454
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:24,394
(door opening)

455
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,074
(door closing)

456
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:29,075
Is Mr. Paine in?

457
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,318
(footsteps tapping)

458
00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:58,755
Who are you?

459
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:00,512
My name is Eckert.

460
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:01,669
I work with Colonel Baker.

461
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,320
(door opening)

462
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:08,475
It's all right Lewis.

463
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:15,033
Very well. Mr. Eckert,

464
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:16,039
what is it you want?

465
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,840
I was asked to have a
quiet talk with both of you.

466
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,310
The fact is you and your partner here

467
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,879
have been stirring up
quite a lot of dust lately

468
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:27,075
and not much else.

469
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,356
Shooting at people in the dark.

470
00:27:30,360 --> 00:27:32,317
Acting like fools at a circus.

471
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:33,469
Fools, sir?

472
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,437
I think that was the right word, yes.

473
00:27:36,360 --> 00:27:38,476
All your reckless attacks and loose talk

474
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,279
are creating a very dangerous situation.

475
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,271
Attracting attention without results.

476
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,032
Stay out of the matter from now on.

477
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:47,634
I'll not tolerate your insults.

478
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:51,156
It was I who devised the
plan to abduct the president

479
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,913
and I intend to carry it through.

480
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:55,831
You'll do nothing of the kind.

481
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:58,513
Now listen carefully.

482
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:02,593
You make one move toward the
president or anybody else,

483
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,911
you and your friend will be
found floating in the Potomac.

484
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,275
(dramatic music)

485
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:09,873
[Narrator] Angry at Eckert's threats,

486
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:13,475
enraged at being replaced,
Booth will ignore the warning

487
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,074
and proceed with his
plan to kidnap Lincoln,

488
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,393
(dramatic music)

489
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:31,240
Mr. President.

490
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,035
Ward, come in, come in.

491
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:39,836
You look tired, Mr. President,

492
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,593
you need to get away for
a few days, get some rest,

493
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:43,795
a change of air.

494
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:45,552
I am going to Ward, I'm going to.

495
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:50,955
General Grant has invited
me to visit his camp

496
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,270
outside Richmond for a few days.

497
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:55,479
Chairman will be coming up too

498
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,359
and we'll be able to
talk over peace terms.

499
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:02,354
Maybe with a little luck I'll
be there for fall of Richmond.

500
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:04,476
But how soon are you leaving, sir?

501
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,359
We sail Thursday on the River Queen.

502
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,399
Barry and Ted are going along.

503
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:13,599
Well, I don't see much rest
in what you're felling me,

504
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,238
but at least it will be a change.

505
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:19,712
So Grant thinks we're
coming to the end at last.

506
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:25,715
Oh, I guess the rebels
can still dodge and run.

507
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,831
Still can throw away a few more lives,

508
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,554
but running out of time,

509
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:38,675
running outta space,

510
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:40,880
running out of everything.

511
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,232
Hard to imagine imagine, isn't it Ward.

512
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:49,432
Imagine what, Mr. President?

513
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:54,274
Peace, no war.

514
00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,359
It's been war from the beginning for me.

515
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,430
Not sure now I'll know
how to handle peace.

516
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:06,479
Here.

517
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:09,872
Well I tell you Mr. President,

518
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,191
I wouldn't worry too much about
that problem if I were you.

519
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:14,349
The way things are going,

520
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:15,879
you're gonna find out
there isn't much difference

521
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,076
between war and peace.

522
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,994
Not while you've got men
like Ben Wade, Thad Stevens,

523
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,469
Stanton, George Julian,

524
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,757
some of the other radical
Republicans after your scalp.

525
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:29,039
If you don't go along with the way

526
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:30,439
they want to trim the South,

527
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:35,150
why sir, you just might have
to fortify the White House,

528
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,799
put out patrols to guard
against raids from the Congress.

529
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,313
Come on now Ward.

530
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:41,639
That's the one kind of war

531
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,790
where I know more than the Generals.

532
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:45,677
(Lincoln laughing)

533
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,798
Did you come here for
anything in particular?

534
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,155
Only to try to get you out
for a ride this afternoon,

535
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:52,673
- but you're booked.
- Mr. President,

536
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:53,556
Yes.

537
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,198
I've just received an urgent request

538
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,271
from the 140th Indiana Regiment.

539
00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:58,559
They're moving through Washington today.

540
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:01,074
That's one of the
greatest regiments we have.

541
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,356
Oh, what do they want?

542
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:07,439
Oh, they'd like to present
a captured rebel flag to you

543
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,113
at a formal review this afternoon.

544
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:09,951
This afternoon?

545
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,476
Well, no, I've got to be
at the soldier's home.

546
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,278
Couldn't they do it another day?

547
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:16,714
They're moving on at once.

548
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:24,155
I'll tell you what, take
the matter up with Paul,

549
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,391
see if he can't get one
of the cabinet members

550
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:30,597
to serve as my proxy at
one place or the other.

551
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,715
You see the trick of authority Ward,

552
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:44,715
you make the decision, let
someone else solve the problem.

553
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:53,036
[Narrator] Having
heard that the president

554
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:56,112
will be traveling to the
soldier's home this afternoon,

555
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:58,509
<i>Booth has quickly
gathered his conspirators.</i>

556
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,076
They assemble near a
deserted stretch of road

557
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:03,400
and prepare for action.

558
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,519
(dramatic music)

559
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,552
The minute the carriage rounds the bend

560
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:12,710
Surratt and I will ride out ahead of it.

561
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,359
When it passes here, the rest of you

562
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:16,998
will ride out behind it.

563
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,992
Now you four will handle the
escort such as there may be.

564
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:23,277
And remember when we start
South, if we're stopped,

565
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,509
I'll do the answering.

566
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:29,273
(dramatic music)

567
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,113
(horse hooves clopping}

568
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,194
(horse neighing)

569
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,759
(horse neighing)

570
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,593
(dramatic music)

571
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,275
All right Surratt, let's go.

572
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,112
(dramatic music)

573
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:32,269
(horse hooves clopping}

574
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,673
Where are those horse hands.

575
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:38,076
(gun cocking)

576
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:40,750
Come on.

577
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,637
Ya, ya, ya, ya, this way.

578
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,198
Come on this way.

579
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,999
(dramatic music)

580
00:33:58,160 --> 00:33:59,912
Stop the president.

581
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:03,994
Stop the president.

582
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,833
(dramatic music)

583
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:19,476
You didn't leave
your horse in the street.

584
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:20,555
In her stable.

585
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:21,954
Good.

586
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:23,075
You're alone?

587
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,390
Yes, I am alone.

588
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:26,515
Where are the others?

589
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,272
Gone, the craven cowards.

590
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:30,669
What do you mean gone?

591
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:32,717
Backed out, quit.

592
00:34:32,720 --> 00:34:34,870
Atzerodt ran for home and Port Tobacco.

593
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,030
I just left Arnold and
O'Laughlen in the street,

594
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:38,758
they're headed back to Baltimore.

595
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:40,717
I should have shot them both.

596
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:44,319
I hardly see what
good that would've done.

597
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,959
John, would you and
Mr. Booth have a brandy?

598
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:51,033
Ah madam, I would be
most grateful for it.

599
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:52,039
Thank you, Mother.

600
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:55,799
[Narrator] And as
Booth desperately tried

601
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,838
to implement his plan to abduct
the president in the North,

602
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:00,751
men died in the South.

603
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,036
Sherman's troops burned city after city.

604
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:04,633
Thousands of fives were lost

605
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,119
during the final weeks of the war

606
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,191
until finally the inevitable happened.

607
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:09,031
(soldier screaming)

608
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:10,155
(guns firing}

609
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:12,874
On April 9th, Lee
surrenders at Appomattox.

610
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,993
Now Booth's plans will
no longer save the South.

611
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,990
(fireworks exploding)

612
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,674
(upbeat music)

613
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:33,559
The war is over.

614
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:36,312
And though most Northerners are eager

615
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:39,551
that harsh retributions be
demanded from the South.

616
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:43,076
President Lincoln's first concern
is to reunite the country.

617
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,839
To do this, he intends to offer the South

618
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,036
friendship not hatred.

619
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:56,075
Some 12,000 voters from
the heretofore slave state

620
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:02,355
of Louisiana, have sworn
allegiance to the Union.

621
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:09,076
And they have asked the
nation's recognition.

622
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:10,912
(people speaking indistinctly}

623
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:14,993
Now, if we reject and spurn them,

624
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:20,797
we do our utmost to
disorganize and disperse them.

625
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:26,952
If on the contrary we
recognize and sustain

626
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,116
the new government of Louisiana,

627
00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:35,437
we encourage the hearts of the 12,000

628
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:40,435
to adhere to their work
and to argue for it

629
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,518
and to fight for it and to feed it.

630
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:48,353
(all applauding)

631
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,239
(insects chirping)

632
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,916
(people speaking indistinctly}

633
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:58,912
(insects chirping)

634
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,039
Well, Mr. Secretary,

635
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:05,396
I hardly need to ask
your views on my speech.

636
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,596
I already see the comment on your face.

637
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,949
Indeed, Mr. President, I'm astounded.

638
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,713
You're giving away the
fruits of our victory.

639
00:37:13,720 --> 00:37:15,597
And there many of us
are beginning to believe

640
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:19,594
that Grant surrendered to
Lee, instead of Lee to Grant.

641
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:23,632
I implore you, Mr.
President, to reconsider

642
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:25,119
before it's too late.

643
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:26,793
Of course you seem to have taken.

644
00:37:28,240 --> 00:37:31,437
Now with your leave, I must say goodnight.

645
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:34,074
Goodnight, Mr. Secretary.

646
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:38,279
Senator Conness.

647
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,590
Good night, Mr. President.

648
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:43,194
(gentle music}

649
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,435
I'd better be shoving
along too, Mr. President.

650
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:54,157
Ward, can you stay a minute?

651
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:56,993
(dramatic music)

652
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:15,476
Didn't go down very well, did it?

653
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:24,953
I sure thought Stanton
was going to have a fit.

654
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:26,109
Oh, Stanton.

655
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:28,957
I know where he stands.

656
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,759
"Hang 'em by the thumbs,
let the blood flow."

657
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:36,230
He's a great believer in
punishment that Mr. Stanton.

658
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:41,876
No Ward, I was thinking
about the crowd up there.

659
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:46,875
It seemed to me they were might
lukewarm, wouldn't you say?

660
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,389
Well, I don't think the folks out there

661
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:52,599
were very interested in hearing

662
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,432
about the problems of reconstruction.

663
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:59,634
They wanted to hear
that they had won a war,

664
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:00,869
a victory speech,

665
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:02,951
full of promises to hang Jeff Davis,

666
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,918
reign down fire and
brimstone all over the South.

667
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:06,910
(Lemon laughing)

668
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:08,991
That would've brought out cheers.

669
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:13,995
And hardened the hate
for another hundred years,

670
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:19,272
200 years.

671
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:21,351
(gentle music}

672
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:25,593
Now all that ended, day before
yesterday at Appomattox.

673
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:31,798
We fought a war to hold
the country together,

674
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:33,598
now we've got to do it.

675
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:40,158
We've got to stop thinking
of the South as an enemy.

676
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:42,834
(gentle music}

677
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:47,437
Just what do you propose for Jeff Davis?

678
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,080
(gentle music}

679
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:55,115
Well, that's a problem
I'm not eager to face.

680
00:39:56,240 --> 00:39:58,470
It's time for me to go, sir.

681
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:00,312
Good night, Mr. President.

682
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:02,072
(gentle music}

683
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:05,630
(footsteps tapping)

684
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:07,597
(door closing)

685
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,353
(dramatic music)

686
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:13,958
(horse neighing)

687
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,076
(dramatic music)

688
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:26,834
[Baker] Morning, Captain Boyd.

689
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:29,154
Good morning, Colonel.

690
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:36,756
Ford's Theater?

691
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:38,398
The President and Mrs. Lincoln

692
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,676
are planning to see our American cousin,

693
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:41,795
some evening this week.

694
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,353
Mr. Lincoln will be going to
the theater with his wife,

695
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:49,114
but he'll leave it with you.

696
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:53,591
(birds chirping)

697
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:54,749
Once the play is over,

698
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:57,799
you and two other men will be
waiting outside the theater.

699
00:40:57,800 --> 00:40:59,473
When the president comes out,

700
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,279
you will force him into
a waiting carriage.

701
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:03,350
(birds chirping)

702
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:05,237
And you will chloroform him.

703
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:11,597
You'll escape south across
the Navy Yard Bridge

704
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,558
to Benedict's Landing on the Potomac.

705
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:16,836
From there, the Chaffee
company will have a ship

706
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:20,196
waiting to transport you and
your prisoner to a safe port.

707
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,396
You make it sound awfully easy, Colonel.

708
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,994
There's sure to be guards to contend with.

709
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:31,437
And assuming I was able to
get Lincoln in the carriage,

710
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:33,272
an alarm will certainly be telegraphed

711
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,237
to all military checkpoints,

712
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:38,111
including the Navy Yard Bridge.

713
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:43,191
This isn't a kidnap plan, it's suicide.

714
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:44,759
(birds chirping)

715
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:46,637
You underestimate us, Captain.

716
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:49,839
There will be no guard.

717
00:41:50,720 --> 00:41:53,792
He will leave his post
during the performance,

718
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:54,995
never ref um.

719
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,355
True, every road out of
Washington will be sealed

720
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:01,437
except the Navy Yard Bridge.

721
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:04,790
And due to unforeseen circumstances,

722
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:09,476
the telegraph will break
down at 10 o'clock.

723
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:11,198
(birds chirping)

724
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:12,713
Does that satisfy you?

725
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:16,834
Good.

726
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:17,750
I'll let you know what night

727
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,149
as soon as the president
makes his reservations.

728
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:26,196
Oh, and Captain, don't forget,

729
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:31,753
we want Lincoln kidnapped not killed.

730
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,673
(dramatic music)

731
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:35,511
Many thanks.

732
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:37,477
[Waiter] Thank you, sir.

733
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:43,392
Have another go?

734
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:45,437
No, not now, Eddie.

735
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,477
I've got to check for mail at Ford's.

736
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:50,353
See you later.

737
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:56,236
All right, sir, there are your tickets.

738
00:42:56,240 --> 00:42:59,676
Thank you very much and I hope
you enjoy the show tonight.

739
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,752
(footsteps tapping)

740
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:06,999
Well Wilkes.

741
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,838
I just came by to see if
you were holding mail for me.

742
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:14,515
Oh yes, there are a
couple here for you, Wilkes.

743
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:16,557
Your lady friends are still writing.

744
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:23,353
[Wilkes] So the old scoundrel's
coming to see the play.

745
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:25,879
Yes, but if I were you Wilkes,

746
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:29,077
I wouldn't call the
president an old scoundrel.

747
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:31,355
(Wilkes laughing)

748
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:33,670
Come now, it's a free
country, so I'm told.

749
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,240
I should have as much
right to speak my views

750
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:40,152
as any black slave that Lincoln freed.

751
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:42,913
(dramatic music)

752
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:57,674
(throat clearing)

753
00:43:57,680 --> 00:43:59,034
[Baker] Mr. President.

754
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:02,192
Oh yes, Colonel, this matter
will only take a moment.

755
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:04,271
Oh, that's quite all right.

756
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,669
We finished our talk.

757
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:08,159
Excuse me.

758
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:09,275
- Mr. President.
- Yes.

759
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:14,399
Well,

760
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:17,313
first of all, I regret
that you and Mrs. Stanton

761
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:18,993
were unable to accept Ms. Lincoln's

762
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:20,479
invitation to the theater.

763
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,996
Well, I have many duties
to keep me here this evening.

764
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:25,035
I'm sure you understand.

765
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:26,439
Oh, of course, of course.

766
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:30,629
However, my advisors informed me

767
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:33,359
that I shouldn't go to
the theater unescorted.

768
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:37,194
And I have somewhat of
a problem on that score,

769
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:42,070
as yet my guard John Parker
hasn't arrived for duty.

770
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,390
Matter of fact, he's almost
two hours late right now.

771
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,438
You couldn't by chance
spare your Major Eckert?

772
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:50,592
I'm sorry, I'm afraid that's
impossible Mr. President.

773
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:54,116
I've already assigned him
numerous duties for this evening.

774
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:58,910
Ah well, nothing is
gone as it should today.

775
00:44:59,960 --> 00:45:02,952
Parker's late, Eckert's unavailable.

776
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:07,238
Mrs. Lincoln is having trouble
getting her guests together.

777
00:45:08,240 --> 00:45:09,230
Ah, you can't come,

778
00:45:09,240 --> 00:45:11,914
General and Mrs. Grant canceled,

779
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:13,479
several others have declined.

780
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:15,755
1 tell you the truth,

781
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:18,593
I just as soon stay home
as go to the theater.

782
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:21,875
But where Mrs. Lincoln is concerned,

783
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,076
I'm the one guest who can't refuse.

784
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:26,549
(both laughing)

785
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:29,393
(dramatic music)

786
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:46,232
Well, Captain Boyd.

787
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:50,071
Good day to you, Colonel.

788
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:51,119
To what do I owe the pleasure?

789
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:52,952
Have you heard the president

790
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:54,712
will be at Ford's Theater tonight.

791
00:45:56,760 --> 00:45:59,798
It will be a performance
he'll never forget.

792
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:01,199
Make sure it is.

793
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:02,395
(dramatic music)

794
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:04,516
(horse hooves clopping}

795
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:14,839
(door knocking})

796
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:24,119
Lewis.

797
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:27,595
Where are the others?

798
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:30,073
They haven't come.

799
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:31,798
Then it's hopeless, we can do nothing.

800
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:32,915
Plan's been changed.

801
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:36,473
How?

802
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:38,153
The kidnapping plan can't work.

803
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:39,878
We're too few.

804
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:42,918
Besides the Secretary of State, Seward,

805
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:43,910
was hurt in an accident.

806
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:46,559
He's at home in bed.

807
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:47,675
Then what can we do?

808
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:51,439
Kill them.

809
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:55,397
Actually, George, it's much safer,

810
00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:58,597
quickly over and done, no
captives to worry about.

811
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:00,477
I'll take the president,

812
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:02,869
Lewis is going to handle Seward

813
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,110
and you'll take the vice president,

814
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:07,077
Johnson at Kirkwood House.

815
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:10,319
Vice president.

816
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:12,710
And afterward?

817
00:47:12,720 --> 00:47:14,677
Well then we'll all separately take

818
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,194
the route we've covered a hundred times.

819
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:20,795
You have your weapons.

820
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:26,639
Then we must strike together between 10

821
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:27,914
and the quarter hour.

822
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:30,429
Agreed?

823
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:31,439
Yes.

824
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:36,034
(door opening)

825
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:42,309
(door closing)

826
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,073
(dramatic music)

827
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:52,231
(clock ticking)

828
00:47:52,240 --> 00:47:55,073
(dramatic music)

829
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:57,599
Another.

830
00:47:57,600 --> 00:47:58,829
Yeah.

831
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:01,719
(dramatic music)

832
00:48:07,240 --> 00:48:09,834
Well, Mr. Booth, will
you join me in a drink?

833
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:14,875
Just one, I think, Eddie, I
have an appointment very soon.

834
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:15,879
Brandy.

835
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:20,236
Is that the president's carriage

836
00:48:20,240 --> 00:48:22,470
waiting outside the theater?

837
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:24,153
That's it all right.

838
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:26,037
He got here in the
middle of the first act.

839
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:27,039
He made it though.

840
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:32,399
Tell me, Eddie,

841
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:35,559
how serious were you this morning,

842
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:39,599
all that talk about
wanting some excitement?

843
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:41,279
I never said anything to you, Mr. Booth,

844
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:42,998
that I didn't mean.

845
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,799
I have a bit of business to do.

846
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:50,795
Can you meet me at Good
Hope Hill about midnight?

847
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:53,630
There'll be some money in it for you.

848
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:54,639
I'll be there.

849
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:57,039
Good man.

850
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:05,559
Well 'til later then.

851
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:09,999
That Wilkes is good.

852
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:13,713
But he's not half the
actor his father was.

853
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:18,278
When I leave the stage,

854
00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:22,995
I'll be the most famous man in America.

855
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:25,151
(door opening)

856
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:26,070
(insects chirping)

857
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:27,878
[Narrator] As Booth leaves, John Parker,

858
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:30,076
the president's bodyguard enters.

859
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:32,833
<i>Not only has Parker reported
for duty three hours late,</i>

860
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,832
but he has left his post at the
theater and come to the bar.

861
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:38,909
Whiskey.

862
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:40,877
(dramatic music)

863
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:43,599
(horse hooves clopping}

864
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:48,430
(people speaking indistinctly}

865
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:09,430
(people speaking indistinctly}

866
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:11,750
(audience laughing)

867
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:13,398
(dramatic music)

868
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:16,233
[Actor] You're not used to
the manners of good society.

869
00:50:20,720 --> 00:50:23,872
(audience applauding)

870
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:31,479
(people speaking indistinctly}

871
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:34,233
(dramatic music)

872
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:41,591
(gun firing)

873
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:42,795
(dramatic music)

874
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:45,235
[Spectator] My God,
they shot the president.

875
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:49,950
(people speaking indistinctly}

876
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:02,638
(horse hooves clopping}

877
00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:03,550
(dramatic music)

878
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:04,959
Stop that man.

879
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:08,310
(people speaking indistinctly}

880
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:16,319
(gun firing)

881
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:19,039
(dramatic music)

882
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:24,158
(horse hooves clopping}

883
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:26,913
(dramatic music)

884
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:38,318
(people speaking indistinctly}

885
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,630
(dramatic music)

886
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:25,559
How is he?

887
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:28,397
(dramatic music)

888
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,232
Waiting to die.

889
00:52:30,240 --> 00:52:33,517
(insects chirping)

890
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:39,918
Henson, I thought I'd missed you.

891
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:41,870
You've been traveling fast.

892
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:43,399
You saw no other travel on the road.

893
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:44,356
None.

894
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:45,714
Then they've been caught.

895
00:52:45,720 --> 00:52:46,835
Who?

896
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:49,958
Eddie, we've killed the president

897
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:52,031
and some of his cursed cabinet too.

898
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:56,078
So that's what the row at
the theater was all about.

899
00:52:56,080 --> 00:52:58,879
Well done Mr. Booth, well done.

900
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:00,359
Then you're with me, Eddie.

901
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:03,113
Oh, you know I am
Mr. Booth, all the way.

902
00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:05,953
When we cross the Potomac,
it'll all be free and clear.

903
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:10,352
Friends, all the money we
need, we'll be heroes my lad.

904
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:16,071
Now if only the horses
hold up, and my leg.

905
00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:16,990
What happened?

906
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:17,910
Oh, when I jumped to the stage,

907
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:20,719
I must have sprained my ankle.

908
00:53:20,720 --> 00:53:22,358
At first, didn't bother me,

909
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:24,920
but now it's beginning to
hurt like the very devil.

910
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,793
Well, no use talking.

911
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:29,631
Let's go.

912
00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:31,836
I've got some weapons to pick up.

913
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:35,679
[Narrator] So far,
luck has been with Booth.

914
00:53:35,680 --> 00:53:37,637
Unknowingly, he was
able to escape the city

915
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:39,119
by using the Navy Yard Bridge,

916
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:41,191
which was left open for Captain Boyd.

917
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:43,555
But his accomplices have been less lucky.

918
00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:45,915
Both Paine and Atzerodt
failed in their attempts

919
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:48,719
to kill Secretary Seward
and Vice President Johnson,

920
00:53:48,720 --> 00:53:50,313
and they go into hiding.

921
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:53,358
However, Booths left ankle
is broken, not sprained.

922
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,078
And as the pain grows more intense,

923
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:57,356
he is forced to veer
off his planned course

924
00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:59,954
and seek medical care
from Dr. Samuel Mudd,

925
00:53:59,960 --> 00:54:01,712
a Southern sympathizer.

926
00:54:01,720 --> 00:54:03,996
How much longer will it take, Doctor?

927
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:07,470
So you in a hurry to get on Mr. Henson?

928
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:11,278
I promised 10 be in the city by morning?

929
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:13,954
I'll tell you, you're
not going very far tonight.

930
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:15,080
Wait, what are you saying?

931
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:19,552
I'm saying that you're both
fools to try to go on tonight.

932
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:24,352
Why don't you rest yourself
for a while in the parlor.

933
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:31,519
(birds chirping)

934
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:35,555
(dramatic music)

935
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:41,073
(Booth screaming)

936
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:30,598
(horse hooves clopping}

937
00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:32,830
(dramatic music)

938
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:42,551
(door opening)

939
00:55:42,560 --> 00:55:44,597
(dramatic music)

940
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:46,637
For God sake, where have you been?

941
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:49,439
I just wrote into Bryantown
to try to find a carriage

942
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:50,999
0 you could travel.

943
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:52,320
There's none to be had.

944
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:55,874
This town's filled with soldiers.

945
00:55:55,880 --> 00:55:57,109
They came in last night.

946
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:01,033
The president died this morning.

947
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:05,479
In no time at all, the whole
countryside will be talking.

948
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:08,914
We've got to ride Mr.
Booth, we've got to ride.

949
00:56:12,720 --> 00:56:14,154
You shaved it clean.

950
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:15,434
Do you think it'll help?

951
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:18,678
If a man doesn't look too closely.

952
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:22,355
Mr. Booth, we don't have much time.

953
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:26,518
Yes, I'm ready, saddle the mare

954
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:30,753
and ask Dr. Mudd if he
could get me a crutch

955
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:32,592
50 I can move about.

956
00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:34,511
(dramatic music)

957
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:35,316
(birds chirping)

958
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:38,830
[Narrator]in torment
from the broken left ankle,

959
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:41,036
Booth rides on with Henson.

960
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:43,793
But the delay at Dr. Mudd's
house has been dangerous.

961
00:56:45,720 --> 00:56:47,438
By Saturday night, April 15th,

962
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:50,432
the whole countryside knows
of the president's murder.

963
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:52,033
(dramatic music)

964
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:54,509
But Booth has prepared well

965
00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:55,351
(fire crackling)

966
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:58,318
He knows the secret pathways
of the back country,

967
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:00,391
<i>has set up connections
with Rebel sympathizers</i>

968
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:02,357
who will give sanctuary.

969
00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:08,714
From Maryland, a planter,
Colonel Samuel Cox

970
00:57:08,720 --> 00:57:10,950
and his brother-in-Law, Thomas Jones,

971
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:13,395
they are given a hiding
place in a remote thicket,

972
00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:17,519
There, provided with a new
boot, food and even newspapers,

973
00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:21,195
Booth and Henson will remain
for the next six days.

974
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:22,998
<i>Meanwhile, Colonel Lafayette Baker</i>

975
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:25,150
has had thousands of people arrested

976
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:27,390
to create confusion and give him a chance

977
00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:30,039
to locate Booth before anyone else does.

978
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:32,873
Prison Superintendent
says he's run outta room.

979
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:34,871
Tell him to make room.

980
00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:36,632
Major Richards of
the Metropolitan Police

981
00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:39,075
has made an urgent
request for fresh mounts.

982
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:40,115
Impossible.

983
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:41,349
We have no mounts to spare.

984
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:43,954
They have barely enough for
the search parties we have out.

985
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:46,758
Andrew and Luther Potter, are they here?

986
00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:47,670
They're waiting outside.

987
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:48,556
Bring them in.

988
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:52,439
Also that Indian tracker
fellow, Whippet Senalgie,

989
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:53,510
bring him in too.

990
00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:58,272
(footsteps tapping)

991
00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:08,631
Andrew, Luther, Senalgie

992
00:58:09,720 --> 00:58:11,597
I have reason 10 believe
that this is the area

993
00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:12,874
we should concentrate on,

994
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:16,753
Port Tobacco, up and down
the Potomac from there.

995
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:19,718
Now I want you all down there in a hurry.

996
00:58:21,120 --> 00:58:23,316
Senalgie you'll travel alone.

997
00:58:25,040 --> 00:58:27,429
You two boys will stick together.

998
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:29,397
And you'll report directly to me.

999
00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:32,597
Now understand that clearly, nobody else.

1000
00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:34,557
I want Booth dead or alive.

1001
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:39,237
Colonel Conger is here.

1002
00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:40,239
Ah?

1003
00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:46,870
I thought you might
be interested in that.

1004
00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:51,316
Rewards total nearly 300,000.

1005
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:53,436
My, Booth is gonna be

1006
00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:55,909
the most valuable carcass in the country.

1007
00:58:55,920 --> 00:58:59,117
Yeah, and if we don't get
him, somebody else is sure to.

1008
00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:01,953
I sure hate to see some
ignorant country boy,

1009
00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:04,349
get all that money and
not know how to spend it.

1010
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:07,000
I've got my best people
on his trail, Everton.

1011
00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:10,235
I think we'll see our
share of the reward money.

1012
00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:13,432
But I want Booth dead.

1013
00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:15,192
If he lives long enough to talk,

1014
00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:17,237
his won't be the only head in the noose.

1015
00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:20,479
They've caught David Herold,

1016
00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:21,709
they just brought him in.

1017
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:23,995
Where was he caught?

1018
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:26,230
Underneath a tree in
Prince George County.

1019
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:29,317
He's in the gallery
now being photographed.

1020
00:59:29,320 --> 00:59:31,436
So we finally have a
prisoner that counts.

1021
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:36,116
Oh no, no, Everton, not just
a prisoner, we have a guide,

1022
00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:38,111
someone who can take
us where we want to go.

1023
00:59:38,120 --> 00:59:40,111
Have Captain Boyd meet us in the gallery.

1024
00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:46,353
(dramatic music)

1025
00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:49,637
You missed your chance the other night,

1026
00:59:49,640 --> 00:59:52,439
but now you got the
opportunity to capture Booth.

1027
00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:54,955
You will.

1028
00:59:55,960 --> 00:59:57,758
Unless you want to spend
your next few years

1029
00:59:57,760 --> 00:59:59,273
back in your old cell.

1030
01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:03,354
That terrifying excuse for a man

1031
01:00:03,360 --> 01:00:05,271
is gonna give you that opportunity.

1032
01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:08,993
(dramatic music)

1033
01:00:18,400 --> 01:00:23,076
Davy Herold, I'm Colonel Lafayette Baker.

1034
01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:25,269
I don't have much time.

1035
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:27,992
I want you to answer me quick,

1036
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:29,678
I want you to answer me straight.

1037
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:34,559
How much is your life worth to you?

1038
01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:36,119
Everything, sir, everything.

1039
01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:39,594
Well right now, your life is forfeit,

1040
01:00:41,800 --> 01:00:44,235
you don't own it, I do.

1041
01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:47,479
To me, it doesn't make a
penny's worth a difference

1042
01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:50,199
whether I give it to the hangman or not.

1043
01:00:50,200 --> 01:00:53,033
(dramatic music)

1044
01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:00,997
But I tell you what I'm gonna do, Davy.

1045
01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:05,274
I'm gonna give you a chance
to earn back your life.

1046
01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:09,793
One chance, one life.

1047
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:10,799
Fair enough?

1048
01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:14,552
I'm gonna release you to Captain Boyd

1049
01:01:16,560 --> 01:01:18,392
and you're gonna lead him to Booth.

1050
01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:20,754
You know what he looks like,

1051
01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:23,280
you were part of the plot,

1052
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:25,355
you knew the plans,

1053
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:28,199
you know where he is.

1054
01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:33,960
Davy, Davy,

1055
01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:36,955
I want Booth.

1056
01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:42,116
You're a brave man, you're a smart man

1057
01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:45,471
and you're going to give him to me,

1058
01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:49,991
you're gonna give me his life for yours.

1059
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:54,273
(dramatic music)

1060
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:03,319
Let's go, son.

1061
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:04,594
(dramatic music)

1062
01:02:04,600 --> 01:02:07,433
[Narrator] it is Sunday
afternoon, April 16th,

1063
01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:09,999
two days after the
president's assassination

1064
01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:13,516
and Baker has his first pawn
in the search for Booth.

1065
01:02:13,520 --> 01:02:16,672
Slowly in the coming days,
others are rounded up.

1066
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:20,635
Samuel Arnold is arrested
at Fortress Monroe,

1067
01:02:20,640 --> 01:02:22,074
Monday, April 17th.

1068
01:02:23,640 --> 01:02:26,154
Michael O'Laughlen in
Baltimore on the same day.

1069
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:29,311
And later that evening, Mary Surratt,

1070
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:32,839
Lewis Paine and Edward Spangler

1071
01:02:32,840 --> 01:02:35,070
are apprehended in Washington.

1072
01:02:35,080 --> 01:02:37,754
George Atzerodt is caught on April 20th.

1073
01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:40,559
Dr. Samuel Mudd on April 21st,

1074
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:44,553
But the main figure is still at large.

1075
01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:47,671
A week later than he had planned,

1076
01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:49,990
in a boat provided by Thomas Jones,

1077
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:53,709
Booth prepares to cross the
Potomac to the Virginia Shore.

1078
01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:56,553
(dramatic music)

1079
01:02:58,800 --> 01:03:02,111
And so passed from friendly
hand to friendly hand,

1080
01:03:02,120 --> 01:03:05,078
the fugitives crossed the
Potomac and head south.

1081
01:03:05,080 --> 01:03:07,594
<i>He is warned by Jones
to avoid the gunboats</i>

1082
01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:08,829
<i>which patrol the river.</i>

1083
01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:12,919
(dramatic music)

1084
01:03:18,120 --> 01:03:20,555
But they are never far
from their pursuers.

1085
01:03:20,560 --> 01:03:23,393
(dramatic music)

1086
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:55,757
Tonight they will stay in
the shanty of William Lucas,

1087
01:03:55,800 --> 01:03:58,235
but as they go, they will leave behind

1088
01:03:58,240 --> 01:04:00,197
one crucial belonging,

1089
01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:03,636
Booth's jacket caught on
a bush near Gambo Creek.

1090
01:04:03,640 --> 01:04:04,869
(dramatic music)

1091
01:04:04,880 --> 01:04:07,793
Meanwhile, Colonel Baker
has sent the Potter brothers

1092
01:04:07,800 --> 01:04:12,237
<i>along with Captain Boyd and
Davy Herald to find Booth.</i>

1093
01:04:13,520 --> 01:04:15,955
(horse hooves clopping}

1094
01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:17,234
Loyal or secess?

1095
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:19,399
Secess.

1096
01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:21,359
We'll wait.

1097
01:04:22,360 --> 01:04:23,589
You coming Mr. Herold?

1098
01:04:24,600 --> 01:04:25,599
Why him?

1099
01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:28,750
Well, he's acquainted there too.

1100
01:04:28,760 --> 01:04:31,400
If we go together, they might
be a little more trustful.

1101
01:04:32,600 --> 01:04:33,599
All right.

1102
01:04:37,720 --> 01:04:41,111
(horse hooves clopping}

1103
01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:48,672
So they made you a Judas
goat for the Yankees.

1104
01:04:48,680 --> 01:04:49,829
What about you?

1105
01:04:49,840 --> 01:04:51,319
(horse hooves clopping}

1106
01:04:51,320 --> 01:04:52,719
The same.

1107
01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:55,599
Then you should know this
family up here is Union.

1108
01:04:55,600 --> 01:04:56,999
If I'd said that you'd think they'd have

1109
01:04:57,000 --> 01:04:58,195
sent us up here alone?

1110
01:05:00,280 --> 01:05:03,238
Listen to me, Herold, you
game to make a run for it?

1111
01:05:04,600 --> 01:05:06,557
Look, if you trust Baker, you're crazy.

1112
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:09,479
He wants us to find Booth

1113
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:11,551
then he'll tum us over to the hangman.

1114
01:05:11,560 --> 01:05:13,836
We couldn't make a run for it now.

1115
01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:15,717
We wouldn't have a chance.

1116
01:05:15,720 --> 01:05:16,949
No, not now.

1117
01:05:18,360 --> 01:05:19,919
Tonight.

1118
01:05:19,920 --> 01:05:21,797
(dramatic music)

1119
01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:23,711
(insects chirping)

1120
01:05:56,520 --> 01:05:58,591
[Narrator] it is Sunday, April 23rd,

1121
01:05:58,600 --> 01:06:00,796
10 days after the assassination

1122
01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:01,915
and Whippet Nalgie

1123
01:06:01,920 --> 01:06:03,752
the Indian scout and tracker

1124
01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:05,671
makes the crucial discovery of Booth's

1125
01:06:05,680 --> 01:06:07,717
lost jacket and diary.

1126
01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:10,109
He immediately turns
back toward Washington.

1127
01:06:11,880 --> 01:06:13,757
On Monday morning, Booth and Henson

1128
01:06:13,760 --> 01:06:16,036
are driven to the Port
Conway Ferry Crossing

1129
01:06:16,040 --> 01:06:17,917
by William Lucas.

1130
01:06:17,920 --> 01:06:21,117
They plan to cross the
Rappahannock River to Port Royal

1131
01:06:21,120 --> 01:06:22,793
and continue south.

1132
01:06:22,800 --> 01:06:25,633
(dramatic music)

1133
01:06:46,200 --> 01:06:49,795
Excuse me, do you know of a
driver and buggy we could hire

1134
01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:51,359
across the river in Port Royal?

1135
01:06:52,240 --> 01:06:53,594
I reckon.

1136
01:06:53,600 --> 01:06:55,238
Where do you figure on going?

1137
01:06:55,240 --> 01:06:56,435
Up Fredericksburg way.

1138
01:06:57,800 --> 01:07:00,713
I'm ready to pay somebody $10 to take us.

1139
01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:03,079
Union money?

1140
01:07:03,080 --> 01:07:04,718
Union money.

1141
01:07:04,720 --> 01:07:06,836
As soon as the ferry gets back,

1142
01:07:06,840 --> 01:07:09,070
I reckon I can take it myself.

1143
01:07:09,080 --> 01:07:11,117
You know the woods
around here pretty good?

1144
01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:13,354
Like the back of my hand.

1145
01:07:14,320 --> 01:07:15,390
Why?

1146
01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:17,038
Well, I tell you the truth,

1147
01:07:17,040 --> 01:07:20,112
we just as soon not travel the main road.

1148
01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:23,636
We're not too anxious to
run into any Union soldiers.

1149
01:07:23,640 --> 01:07:25,517
Now why would the Union soldiers

1150
01:07:25,520 --> 01:07:26,999
give you anything to worry about?

1151
01:07:29,640 --> 01:07:32,519
You wouldn't be having a guilty
conscience, now would you?

1152
01:07:33,920 --> 01:07:36,036
And what business is it of yours?

1153
01:07:36,040 --> 01:07:37,633
Easy gentleman, easy.

1154
01:07:37,640 --> 01:07:39,278
Partner, give me a hand.

1155
01:07:41,200 --> 01:07:45,273
We we have no quarrel with
any one of your uniforms, sir.

1156
01:07:46,120 --> 01:07:48,157
May I ask your unit?

1157
01:07:51,160 --> 01:07:53,117
Mosby's Irregulars, sir.

1158
01:07:53,120 --> 01:07:54,519
And yours?

1159
01:07:54,520 --> 01:07:57,990
We wore no uniform.

1160
01:07:58,000 --> 01:07:58,999
Spies, eh?

1161
01:08:00,240 --> 01:08:01,799
Well, let us say simply that

1162
01:08:02,640 --> 01:08:05,279
we were in Confederate service.

1163
01:08:05,280 --> 01:08:08,557
We were on an errand in
Baltimore when the war ended

1164
01:08:08,560 --> 01:08:11,518
and now we're just trying to get home.

1165
01:08:11,520 --> 01:08:12,519
My name's Jet.

1166
01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:17,109
You, you look familiar.

1167
01:08:17,120 --> 01:08:18,793
We haven't met before, have we?

1168
01:08:19,640 --> 01:08:21,233
Oh, I'm sure not.

1169
01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:24,754
(dramatic music)

1170
01:08:24,760 --> 01:08:27,798
(birds chirping)

1171
01:08:39,000 --> 01:08:42,391
I don't know who you are
and I don't want to know.

1172
01:08:42,400 --> 01:08:45,074
If you're the man I think
you are, I want to help.

1173
01:08:45,080 --> 01:08:46,878
Now my men and I are at your service

1174
01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:50,593
and we'll make sure you don't
run into any Union soldiers.

1175
01:08:53,560 --> 01:08:55,471
I'm most grateful to you, sir.

1176
01:08:56,520 --> 01:08:57,519
See you ashore.

1177
01:08:58,440 --> 01:08:59,475
(birds chirping)

1178
01:08:59,480 --> 01:09:01,312
I feel as though at last

1179
01:09:01,320 --> 01:09:03,311
we've been delivered out of a nightmare.

1180
01:09:04,520 --> 01:09:06,113
We're among friends, Eddie.

1181
01:09:07,120 --> 01:09:08,315
We're safe.

1182
01:09:08,320 --> 01:09:10,914
(dramatic music)

1183
01:09:17,560 --> 01:09:19,392
(door knocking})

1184
01:09:19,400 --> 01:09:22,233
(dramatic music)

1185
01:09:24,400 --> 01:09:25,679
Well, Stanton, what's this all about?

1186
01:09:25,680 --> 01:09:27,512
Zachariah has Booth's diary

1187
01:09:27,520 --> 01:09:29,352
For heavens sakes,
Chandler, lemme have it.

1188
01:09:33,240 --> 01:09:36,790
"Conness said he could
supply the new passwords

1189
01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:41,317
"every six weeks as they
changed for as long as I wished,

1190
01:09:41,320 --> 01:09:44,676
"providing each time $3,000
would be forthcoming."

1191
01:09:46,280 --> 01:09:47,873
Oh Lord.

1192
01:09:47,880 --> 01:09:51,032
"He said he was not a patriot
for either North or South,

1193
01:09:51,040 --> 01:09:53,873
"rather, a man with a small
pocket and a large need.

1194
01:09:56,720 --> 01:09:59,553
"Thompson gave me 50,000 in bank notes

1195
01:09:59,560 --> 01:10:03,758
"with instructions to take
15,000 to Senator Conness

1196
01:10:05,360 --> 01:10:09,752
"and to leave in a sealed
envelope 20,000 in notes

1197
01:10:09,760 --> 01:10:11,159
"at the home of Senator Wade.

1198
01:10:12,160 --> 01:10:13,958
"Baker comes and brings letters,

1199
01:10:13,960 --> 01:10:15,159
"but no matter who speaks of Baker,

1200
01:10:15,160 --> 01:10:17,549
"do not like him and will not trust him.

1201
01:10:17,560 --> 01:10:21,440
"I believe that Baker and
Eckert and the secretary

1202
01:10:22,560 --> 01:10:24,790
"are in control of our activities,

1203
01:10:24,800 --> 01:10:26,029
"and this frightens me."

1204
01:10:27,560 --> 01:10:28,559
Oh Lord,

1205
01:10:29,600 --> 01:10:30,954
this ever gets out, I'm ruined.

1206
01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:32,758
We'll all be ruined.

1207
01:10:32,760 --> 01:10:33,759
Here.

1208
01:10:36,320 --> 01:10:39,278
George, don't you want to read it?

1209
01:10:39,280 --> 01:10:42,193
I never met Booth and
apparently I'm not mentioned.

1210
01:10:43,680 --> 01:10:45,751
I think I'm better off not reading it.

1211
01:10:46,800 --> 01:10:48,473
Still, it does concern you.

1212
01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:56,390
Tom, here, put this in the safe.

1213
01:10:58,680 --> 01:11:01,115
You may lock up Booth's diary,

1214
01:11:05,400 --> 01:11:07,357
but how are you going to silence him

1215
01:11:07,360 --> 01:11:09,078
when you bring him into open court?

1216
01:11:11,480 --> 01:11:13,153
Good day, gentlemen.

1217
01:11:13,160 --> 01:11:15,993
(dramatic music)

1218
01:11:23,240 --> 01:11:25,470
So you're the man General
Hancock is lending me

1219
01:11:25,480 --> 01:11:26,629
for the special mission?

1220
01:11:26,640 --> 01:11:28,916
- At your service, sir.
- Very good.

1221
01:11:28,920 --> 01:11:31,514
Now these gentlemen are from my agency,

1222
01:11:31,520 --> 01:11:32,351
they'll accompany you.

1223
01:11:32,360 --> 01:11:34,476
This is Lieutenant Colonel Conger.

1224
01:11:34,480 --> 01:11:36,073
- How do you do?
- Colonel.

1225
01:11:36,080 --> 01:11:37,593
My cousin, Lieutenant Baker.

1226
01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:39,471
Lieutenant.

1227
01:11:39,480 --> 01:11:41,437
Colonel Conger will
have courtesy command

1228
01:11:41,440 --> 01:11:42,839
by virtue of his rank.

1229
01:11:42,840 --> 01:11:45,559
But you Lieutenant will
have direct charge.

1230
01:11:45,560 --> 01:11:48,632
And may I tell you that this mission

1231
01:11:48,640 --> 01:11:50,950
may be the most important
one you'll ever have.

1232
01:11:55,720 --> 01:11:57,279
Recognize this man?

1233
01:11:57,280 --> 01:11:58,554
[Hancock] Booth, sir.

1234
01:11:58,560 --> 01:11:59,959
[Baker] Yeah, that's he.

1235
01:11:59,960 --> 01:12:02,759
But I take it you've never seen
him before on stage or off?

1236
01:12:02,760 --> 01:12:03,909
Never sir.

1237
01:12:03,920 --> 01:12:04,716
Very good.

1238
01:12:04,720 --> 01:12:05,839
Now hold onto that
picture and make certain

1239
01:12:05,840 --> 01:12:08,639
that all of your men are
familiar with Booth's, features.

1240
01:12:08,640 --> 01:12:11,234
Your duty and theirs is
to find him, catch him

1241
01:12:11,240 --> 01:12:12,913
and bring him back.

1242
01:12:12,920 --> 01:12:14,479
(dramatic music)

1243
01:12:14,480 --> 01:12:15,276
(horse hooves clopping}

1244
01:12:16,160 --> 01:12:16,956
[Narrator] For two days,

1245
01:12:17,000 --> 01:12:20,072
<i>Lieutenant Doherty's troops
scoured the countryside.</i>

1246
01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:30,990
Before dawn on April 26th,

1247
01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:32,399
their investigation takes them

1248
01:12:32,400 --> 01:12:34,471
<i>to the farm of Richard Garrett.</i>

1249
01:12:38,200 --> 01:12:41,670
(footsteps hastening)

1250
01:12:41,680 --> 01:12:44,433
(dramatic music)

1251
01:12:49,640 --> 01:12:51,631
(door knocking})

1252
01:12:51,640 --> 01:12:54,359
(dramatic music)

1253
01:12:56,160 --> 01:12:58,436
(insects chirping)

1254
01:12:58,440 --> 01:12:59,271
Who is it?

1255
01:12:59,280 --> 01:13:00,111
What do you want?

1256
01:13:00,120 --> 01:13:01,190
We're federal troops.

1257
01:13:01,200 --> 01:13:03,555
Open that door at once
or we'll break it down.

1258
01:13:06,120 --> 01:13:09,556
(door hinge creaking)

1259
01:13:09,560 --> 01:13:10,709
Where are they?

1260
01:13:10,760 --> 01:13:11,556
Who?

1261
01:13:11,560 --> 01:13:13,119
The two men, we know they're here.

1262
01:13:13,120 --> 01:13:14,349
They've gone.

1263
01:13:14,360 --> 01:13:15,316
Where?

1264
01:13:15,320 --> 01:13:16,276
I don't know.

1265
01:13:16,280 --> 01:13:17,554
Back in the woods, I think.

1266
01:13:17,560 --> 01:13:18,595
You lying rib.

1267
01:13:20,640 --> 01:13:23,996
Take him to the nearest tree
and stretch his neck a little.

1268
01:13:24,000 --> 01:13:25,638
Maybe we'll get the truth out of him.

1269
01:13:25,640 --> 01:13:28,154
(dramatic music)

1270
01:13:28,160 --> 01:13:29,992
Search the house.

1271
01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:37,439
The barn.

1272
01:13:37,440 --> 01:13:38,714
Look in the barn.

1273
01:13:38,720 --> 01:13:39,719
Surround the barn.

1274
01:13:41,440 --> 01:13:45,195
(people speaking indistinctly}

1275
01:13:45,200 --> 01:13:47,953
(dramatic music)

1276
01:13:51,960 --> 01:13:53,792
Come on out.

1277
01:13:53,800 --> 01:13:56,758
We have 22 armed men around this barn.

1278
01:13:56,760 --> 01:13:58,831
You don't stand a chance.

1279
01:14:01,400 --> 01:14:02,799
[Herold] Wait, don't shoot.

1280
01:14:02,800 --> 01:14:03,949
I'm coming out.

1281
01:14:03,960 --> 01:14:05,598
[Soldier] Get him.

1282
01:14:09,080 --> 01:14:14,075
Booth, it's your last chance
to come out and surrender.

1283
01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:18,638
He's not going anywhere.

1284
01:14:20,960 --> 01:14:22,712
We'll fire the barn.

1285
01:14:22,720 --> 01:14:25,473
(dramatic music)

1286
01:14:36,760 --> 01:14:39,673
(fire crackling)

1287
01:14:39,680 --> 01:14:42,194
(dramatic music)

1288
01:14:52,080 --> 01:14:54,549
(fire raging)

1289
01:14:55,520 --> 01:14:58,353
(dramatic music)

1290
01:15:03,240 --> 01:15:05,311
[Soldier] Here he comes.

1291
01:15:05,320 --> 01:15:06,319
Look out.

1292
01:15:07,840 --> 01:15:09,638
(gun firing)

1293
01:15:09,640 --> 01:15:11,551
(fire raging)

1294
01:15:11,560 --> 01:15:14,313
(dramatic music)

1295
01:15:18,320 --> 01:15:20,231
Fall back men, fall back.

1296
01:15:20,240 --> 01:15:23,119
(fire raging)

1297
01:15:23,120 --> 01:15:25,031
(dramatic music)

1298
01:15:43,440 --> 01:15:46,114
(horse hooves clopping}

1299
01:15:46,120 --> 01:15:48,794
(dramatic music)

1300
01:16:15,200 --> 01:16:16,998
Gotta admit, we were sure surprised.

1301
01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:17,876
We got to Fredericksburg,

1302
01:16:17,880 --> 01:16:20,394
we were sure he was just
ahead of us moving west.

1303
01:16:20,400 --> 01:16:21,834
But as soon as you shot Booth

1304
01:16:21,840 --> 01:16:23,831
word must have spread like lightning.

1305
01:16:23,840 --> 01:16:25,672
The whole country must know by now.

1306
01:16:25,680 --> 01:16:27,876
Come on, take a look at him.

1307
01:16:27,880 --> 01:16:30,713
(birds chirping)

1308
01:16:40,080 --> 01:16:41,275
What's the matter?

1309
01:16:41,280 --> 01:16:43,839
Well, he sure grew
a mustache in a hurry.

1310
01:16:43,840 --> 01:16:45,274
Red too.

1311
01:16:45,280 --> 01:16:47,749
Everybody knows that
Booth had a mustache.

1312
01:16:47,760 --> 01:16:48,830
Yeah.

1313
01:16:48,840 --> 01:16:50,319
Booth shaved off his mustache

1314
01:16:50,320 --> 01:16:52,072
the night he stopped at Dr. Mudd's.

1315
01:16:54,280 --> 01:16:57,910
(dramatic music)

1316
01:16:57,920 --> 01:16:59,957
But how could they have shot Boyd?

1317
01:16:59,960 --> 01:17:02,429
Because he escaped.

1318
01:17:02,440 --> 01:17:05,114
Gave my detectives the slip.

1319
01:17:05,120 --> 01:17:07,031
But Doherty unknowingly
picked up his trail

1320
01:17:07,040 --> 01:17:09,679
and followed him to Garrett's farm.

1321
01:17:09,680 --> 01:17:11,398
It was dark.

1322
01:17:11,400 --> 01:17:13,311
None of the men knew
what Booth looked like.

1323
01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:14,958
This is a disaster.

1324
01:17:15,920 --> 01:17:19,276
You've already announced the
death of Booth to the press.

1325
01:17:19,280 --> 01:17:20,918
We'll be a laughing stock.

1326
01:17:20,920 --> 01:17:24,151
And that's not all Davy
Herold was with Boyd,

1327
01:17:24,160 --> 01:17:27,312
and he's going on about
the corpse not being Booth.

1328
01:17:31,440 --> 01:17:36,435
If we let the country
believe Booth is dead,

1329
01:17:37,080 --> 01:17:38,115
he'll be forgotten.

1330
01:17:39,160 --> 01:17:42,118
But if we admit that we
killed Boyd by mistake

1331
01:17:42,120 --> 01:17:44,236
and continue the hunt for Booth,

1332
01:17:45,360 --> 01:17:47,829
he's liable to be captured alive.

1333
01:17:49,040 --> 01:17:50,110
And testify.

1334
01:17:54,560 --> 01:17:56,437
Congratulations Colonel Baker

1335
01:17:56,440 --> 01:17:58,829
on the killing of John Wilkes Booth.

1336
01:18:00,200 --> 01:18:01,076
(dramatic music)

1337
01:18:01,080 --> 01:18:02,959
[Narrator] The government
has announced the capture

1338
01:18:02,960 --> 01:18:04,633
and death of John Wilkes Booth.

1339
01:18:05,520 --> 01:18:07,955
The body on deck has a damaged right leg.

1340
01:18:07,960 --> 01:18:10,634
Booth's injury was to his left ankle.

1341
01:18:10,640 --> 01:18:12,790
The corpse had a reddish mustache.

1342
01:18:12,800 --> 01:18:14,757
Booth shaved his black mustache off,

1343
01:18:14,760 --> 01:18:17,149
hardly more than a week ago at Dr. Mudd's.

1344
01:18:18,520 --> 01:18:21,592
The man killed at Garrett's
farm is in his mid 40s.

1345
01:18:21,600 --> 01:18:23,637
Booth is much younger.

1346
01:18:23,640 --> 01:18:24,596
Though he goes through

1347
01:18:24,600 --> 01:18:27,353
the necessary steps of identification,

1348
01:18:27,360 --> 01:18:28,759
Colonel Baker will ensure

1349
01:18:28,760 --> 01:18:31,798
that no contrary evidence is released.

1350
01:18:31,800 --> 01:18:34,155
(dramatic music)

1351
01:18:34,160 --> 01:18:36,993
Under a new and more generous policy,

1352
01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:38,434
bribes are issued secretly,

1353
01:18:38,440 --> 01:18:40,636
not only to those most directly involved

1354
01:18:40,640 --> 01:18:42,472
in the supposed death of Booth,

1355
01:18:42,480 --> 01:18:45,233
but to many who merely
participated in the search.

1356
01:18:47,240 --> 01:18:50,358
In return, however, each
must sign a quitclaim

1357
01:18:50,360 --> 01:18:53,193
sealing his lips on any
questions he may have

1358
01:18:53,200 --> 01:18:55,953
regarding the identity of the corpse.

1359
01:18:58,280 --> 01:19:01,557
Now for the defendants in
custody, the trial begins.

1360
01:19:04,240 --> 01:19:06,595
The mood of the nation demands vengeance

1361
01:19:06,600 --> 01:19:08,910
<i>and Stanton is eager to supply it.</i>

1362
01:19:10,240 --> 01:19:12,834
The government has an
array of dubious witnesses,

1363
01:19:12,840 --> 01:19:14,672
many of them rehearsed in their testimony

1364
01:19:14,680 --> 01:19:17,559
at the prosecution's
so-called school for perjury

1365
01:19:17,560 --> 01:19:19,073
at the National Hotel.

1366
01:19:19,080 --> 01:19:22,596
(dramatic music)

1367
01:19:22,600 --> 01:19:26,116
By whatever means Stanton
is determined to prove

1368
01:19:26,120 --> 01:19:29,511
that the conspirators were
tools of Jefferson Davis

1369
01:19:29,520 --> 01:19:31,397
and the Confederate leaders.

1370
01:19:46,920 --> 01:19:48,433
In January of this year,

1371
01:19:48,440 --> 01:19:52,070
I saw Jacob Thompson,
the Confederate envoy

1372
01:19:52,080 --> 01:19:53,832
in Canada several times.

1373
01:19:54,760 --> 01:19:56,637
He said he'd received a proposition

1374
01:19:56,640 --> 01:20:00,156
to rid the world of
Lincoln and several others.

1375
01:20:01,640 --> 01:20:06,032
He told me that the persons
involved were bold, daring men

1376
01:20:06,040 --> 01:20:09,670
capable of executing
any plan they undertook.

1377
01:20:10,520 --> 01:20:14,514
But he was still awaiting
approval from Richmond.

1378
01:20:14,520 --> 01:20:16,193
(dramatic music)

1379
01:20:16,200 --> 01:20:17,919
[Narrator] The witness
is Richard Montgomery,

1380
01:20:17,920 --> 01:20:19,593
alias James Thompson,

1381
01:20:19,600 --> 01:20:22,194
wartime double agent and
former New York burglar

1382
01:20:22,200 --> 01:20:23,634
with a long police record.

1383
01:20:24,720 --> 01:20:27,109
Later exposed as an unscrupulous perjurer.

1384
01:20:28,520 --> 01:20:31,478
And I heard Sanders say
there was any amount of money

1385
01:20:31,480 --> 01:20:33,756
to accomplish this assassination.

1386
01:20:33,760 --> 01:20:37,151
And that Booth was heart
and soul of the project.

1387
01:20:37,160 --> 01:20:40,198
Later he read a letter
from Jefferson Davis

1388
01:20:40,200 --> 01:20:42,635
expressing his approval
for whatever measures

1389
01:20:46,640 --> 01:20:48,472
[Narrator] Dr. James E. Merritt,

1390
01:20:48,480 --> 01:20:49,754
later pronounced a fraud

1391
01:20:49,760 --> 01:20:52,070
after investigation by
the Canadian government,

1392
01:20:52,080 --> 01:20:54,993
received $6,000 for his day in court.

1393
01:20:57,120 --> 01:20:59,157
I had previously talked with Thompson

1394
01:20:59,160 --> 01:21:02,039
regarding the assassination
of Lincoln and his cabinet

1395
01:21:02,040 --> 01:21:05,396
and had been invited to participate.

1396
01:21:05,400 --> 01:21:08,074
When Surratt brought the
dispatches, Thompson said,

1397
01:21:08,960 --> 01:21:11,190
"This makes the thing right.�

1398
01:21:11,200 --> 01:21:13,794
Referring to the ascent
of the rebel authorities.

1399
01:21:14,960 --> 01:21:19,272
He said, "Killing a tyrant was no murder."

1400
01:21:22,400 --> 01:21:26,279
[Narrator] Sanford Conover
alias James Watson Wallace,

1401
01:21:26,280 --> 01:21:28,510
whose right name is Charles Dunham,

1402
01:21:28,520 --> 01:21:30,830
is the government's star witness.

1403
01:21:30,840 --> 01:21:32,353
He has secretly coached

1404
01:21:32,360 --> 01:21:34,078
some of the other government witnesses

1405
01:21:34,080 --> 01:21:37,596
on the fictitious testimony
for which they have been paid.

1406
01:21:37,600 --> 01:21:41,070
In 1867, he will be sent
to prison for perjury.

1407
01:21:42,680 --> 01:21:45,115
Amid all the accumulating testimony,

1408
01:21:45,120 --> 01:21:49,591
fraudulent or valid, much
other evidence is suppressed.

1409
01:21:51,200 --> 01:21:54,909
The Booth diary will never
be mentioned in court

1410
01:21:54,960 --> 01:21:58,032
<i>and the defendants are not
even permitted to testify</i>

1411
01:21:58,040 --> 01:21:59,269
in their own defense.

1412
01:22:02,440 --> 01:22:04,875
The issue is never really in doubt.

1413
01:22:04,880 --> 01:22:07,952
The verdict on all the
defendants is guilty.

1414
01:22:09,640 --> 01:22:12,473
Dr. Mudd, Arnold, O'Laughlen and Spangler

1415
01:22:12,480 --> 01:22:14,596
receive life prison terms.

1416
01:22:14,600 --> 01:22:17,069
The rest, Mary Surratt, Paine,

1417
01:22:17,080 --> 01:22:19,310
Atzerodt and Herold must hang.

1418
01:22:21,640 --> 01:22:23,313
Stanton acts quickly.

1419
01:22:23,320 --> 01:22:25,550
He orders the execution
for the next morning.

1420
01:22:26,440 --> 01:22:27,510
(dramatic music)

1421
01:22:27,520 --> 01:22:29,591
Mary Surratt will be the first woman

1422
01:22:29,600 --> 01:22:32,479
in the history of the
United States to be hanged.

1423
01:22:35,840 --> 01:22:38,673
(dramatic music)

1424
01:22:47,040 --> 01:22:51,034
And four of the conspirators
are forever silenced.

1425
01:22:51,040 --> 01:22:53,031
But the questions could not be silenced.

1426
01:22:53,040 --> 01:22:55,839
And in 1868, the
existence of Booth's diary

1427
01:22:55,840 --> 01:22:57,433
finally became known.

1428
01:22:57,440 --> 01:22:59,397
A congressional investigation followed.

1429
01:22:59,400 --> 01:23:02,916
And who were these frauds,

1430
01:23:02,920 --> 01:23:07,949
these trained liars bought and
paid for by the government?

1431
01:23:08,240 --> 01:23:13,235
Sanford Conover, Richard
Montgomery, Dr. James Merritt,

1432
01:23:13,520 --> 01:23:17,639
and how many dozen
others, criminal perjures

1433
01:23:17,640 --> 01:23:20,439
in the employ of government officials.

1434
01:23:20,440 --> 01:23:22,716
No less criminal than they.

1435
01:23:22,720 --> 01:23:23,551
(gavel banging)

1436
01:23:23,560 --> 01:23:25,949
Congressman Rogers,
you are out of order.

1437
01:23:25,960 --> 01:23:29,078
And when I asked to
see documents and papers,

1438
01:23:29,080 --> 01:23:32,277
they are locked away, hidden in boxes.

1439
01:23:32,280 --> 01:23:34,476
And I'm told that I can't see them

1440
01:23:34,480 --> 01:23:38,269
because it's incompatible
with a public interest.

1441
01:23:38,280 --> 01:23:43,275
Tell me, since when is
the truth incompatible

1442
01:23:43,280 --> 01:23:45,191
with the public interest?

1443
01:23:45,200 --> 01:23:48,431
The people have every right
to know every bit of evidence

1444
01:23:48,440 --> 01:23:53,196
50 they can find who all were
the accomplices of Booth.

1445
01:23:53,200 --> 01:23:56,636
And to find out who
changed Booth's purpose

1446
01:23:56,640 --> 01:23:59,598
from capture to assassination.

1447
01:23:59,600 --> 01:24:02,399
- And to find out.
- Gentlemen, I believe

1448
01:24:02,400 --> 01:24:05,756
the speculation on the death
of our beloved president

1449
01:24:05,760 --> 01:24:07,558
has gone far enough.

1450
01:24:07,560 --> 01:24:08,630
We all know the fact.

1451
01:24:08,640 --> 01:24:13,032
Do we, Mr. Secretary, do we really?

1452
01:24:13,040 --> 01:24:14,997
Then, can you explain to me

1453
01:24:15,000 --> 01:24:17,355
the sudden appearance of Booth's diary

1454
01:24:17,360 --> 01:24:19,919
and why the diary was
not submitted in evidence

1455
01:24:19,920 --> 01:24:21,194
during the trial.

1456
01:24:21,200 --> 01:24:26,195
And Mr. Secretary, what became
of the 18 missing pages?

1457
01:24:28,480 --> 01:24:30,517
I testified earlier,

1458
01:24:30,520 --> 01:24:33,160
those pages were missing
when I received the diary.

1459
01:24:34,560 --> 01:24:38,235
Furthermore, gentlemen, I
believe Congressman Rogers

1460
01:24:38,240 --> 01:24:40,436
is trying to direct attention to himself

1461
01:24:40,440 --> 01:24:44,991
by referring to issues that
are irrelevant and immaterial,

1462
01:24:45,000 --> 01:24:47,310
And I think you're hiding something.

1463
01:24:47,320 --> 01:24:48,833
(people speaking indistinctly}

1464
01:24:48,840 --> 01:24:49,671
Order.

1465
01:24:49,680 --> 01:24:50,829
Order.

1466
01:24:50,840 --> 01:24:54,879
Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman,
if you ask me,

1467
01:24:54,880 --> 01:24:57,554
Mr. Rogers is making a
mountain out of a molehill.

1468
01:24:57,560 --> 01:24:59,517
The whole matter is really very simple.

1469
01:25:01,000 --> 01:25:03,879
John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln

1470
01:25:03,880 --> 01:25:05,598
and a few Southern rebels helped him.

1471
01:25:05,600 --> 01:25:06,829
Nobody else.

1472
01:25:08,400 --> 01:25:11,711
As far as I'm concerned,
the case should be closed.

1473
01:25:11,720 --> 01:25:15,634
And I'm afraid Mr. Rogers,
I agree with Senator Conness.

1474
01:25:16,480 --> 01:25:19,039
It appears that nothing
more can be accomplished

1475
01:25:19,040 --> 01:25:20,553
in this meeting, gentlemen.

1476
01:25:21,400 --> 01:25:23,073
The majority are in agreement.

1477
01:25:24,160 --> 01:25:25,958
This meeting is adjourned.

1478
01:25:25,960 --> 01:25:26,870
(gavel banging)

1479
01:25:26,880 --> 01:25:28,234
(dramatic music)

1480
01:25:28,240 --> 01:25:30,595
[Narrator] So the
coverup would continue.

1481
01:25:30,600 --> 01:25:32,910
The truth would be concealed
for more than a century

1482
01:25:32,920 --> 01:25:34,718
after Lincoln's death.

1483
01:25:36,760 --> 01:25:40,196
And what of the people so
involved in the coverup?

1484
01:25:40,200 --> 01:25:44,433
For reasons unclear, Stanton
and Baker will become enemies.

1485
01:25:44,440 --> 01:25:45,919
<i>Baker retires but will be murdered</i>

1486
01:25:45,920 --> 01:25:50,551
by arsenic poisoning on July 3rd, 1868.

1487
01:25:50,560 --> 01:25:52,756
Stanton will soon leave the White House.

1488
01:25:52,760 --> 01:25:55,559
He too will die a year after Baker,

1489
01:25:55,560 --> 01:25:57,073
but not before being nominated

1490
01:25:57,080 --> 01:25:59,799
to the highest judicial
seat in the country,

1491
01:25:59,800 --> 01:26:00,995
The Supreme Court,

1492
01:26:02,000 --> 01:26:04,276
(dramatic music)

1493
01:26:04,280 --> 01:26:06,271
John Wilkes Booth,

1494
01:26:06,280 --> 01:26:08,635
the actor who has played so many roles

1495
01:26:08,640 --> 01:26:10,472
will now vanish in a new one.

1496
01:26:13,000 --> 01:26:14,798
After the trial, the Potter brothers

1497
01:26:14,800 --> 01:26:17,838
follow Booth's trail to his
farm near Harper's Ferry,

1498
01:26:17,840 --> 01:26:21,879
then to Philadelphia and finally
lose the trail in New York.

1499
01:26:22,800 --> 01:26:25,633
There are rumors that he
reached Canada, England

1500
01:26:25,640 --> 01:26:26,789
and finally, India.

1501
01:26:29,680 --> 01:26:33,150
Booth, so eager to play
his role in history

1502
01:26:33,160 --> 01:26:35,276
is lost in hearsay.

1503
01:26:35,280 --> 01:26:38,272
(gentle music}

1504
01:26:38,280 --> 01:26:41,989
These events took place 111 years ago.

1505
01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:43,559
Despite the plotting and deception

1506
01:26:43,560 --> 01:26:45,915
of men like Secretary of War, Stanton,

1507
01:26:45,960 --> 01:26:49,476
certain radical Republicans
and greedy Northern financiers,

1508
01:26:49,480 --> 01:26:52,233
President Lincoln's dream
of a reunited nation

1509
01:26:52,240 --> 01:26:53,753
did come to pass.

1510
01:26:55,320 --> 01:26:58,676
Today, America is the symbol
of freedom and equality

1511
01:26:58,680 --> 01:27:00,637
to the rest of the world.

1512
01:27:04,520 --> 01:27:06,039
[Lincoln Voiceover] The
world will little note,

1513
01:27:06,040 --> 01:27:08,600
nor long remember what we say here,

1514
01:27:09,480 --> 01:27:12,313
but it can never forget
what they did here.

1515
01:27:13,280 --> 01:27:16,511
That we here highly
resolve that these dead

1516
01:27:16,520 --> 01:27:18,431
shall not have died in vain.

1517
01:27:19,400 --> 01:27:22,199
That the nation shall have
a new birth of freedom

1518
01:27:23,080 --> 01:27:25,639
and that government of the people,

1519
01:27:25,640 --> 01:27:28,519
by the people and for the people,

1520
01:27:28,520 --> 01:27:30,989
shall not perish from the earth.

1521
01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:34,197
(gentle upbeat music)