The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
- No presidential assassination is inconsequential, but Abraham Lincoln's murder was a pivotal moment in our nation's history. It set the tone for the lengthy and contentious Reconstruction Era - though perhaps not the way in which his assassin, John Wilkes Booth, and co-conspirators intended.
Learn all about Booth, his conspiracy to behead the Union, and Lincoln's final hours from the experts at James A. Garfield National Historic Site. - Фільми й анімація
He apologized for running over? Seriously? I could have listened to him for hours more. So knowledgeable, informative and so interesting. This guy has given me a thirst for history on president Lincoln. Well done!
You reference a "security guy." The person assigned to guard the President - John Parker - had possibly the worst record on the entire police force. Numerous infractions, including drinking and sleeping on the job. That night, he was three hours late for his assigned time and found that the chair left for him didn't let him see the play so he found himself a seat in the audience, leaving the President unguarded. After this, he went to the Star Saloon next door to drink. (Booth was there as well. It's unknown if there was any interaction)
The tavern is still there and is run as a museum. The boarding house, the structure, still exists, but is now the Wok N' Roll Chinese restaurant.
If Booth was in that crowd outside the White House when Lincoln was speaking and Booth turned to his friend Powell and said that is the last speech Lincoln will give and I am going to run him through don't you think someone else in the close crowd would have heard Booth and yelled this man said he is going to kill the President. That crowd would have torn Booth apart. No way do I believe that Booth actually would say that in a crowd of people and put his life in danger. It just doesn't make sense.Booth is an actor with a loud dramatic voice. People standing next to him would hear him say he was going to run him through and would definitely responded.
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Very clear and well done. Thank you M . Porter
Wonderful commentary.
I watch this video often and it's always so enjoyable.
Thank you...again !!
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Wonderful talk...thank you
Outstanding. Thank you
I wonder what that like if you realize that you got to run and get away and you just broke your leg it's got to be really painful what can you do
Powell didn't slash Frederick Seward. Frederick wouldn't let Powell see his father, so Powell pulled out a pistol and tried to shoot him, but the gun didn't fire, so Powell pistol-whipped Frederick so bad, he fractured his skull and put him in a coma. It was Seward's other son, Augustus who was stabbed while trying to stop Powell.
Yes, there were a lot more people injured during Powell's attack. I'm not sure the speaker thoroughly researched his topic
Quite informative!
John Surrat died in Surratsville, not in the confederate army. The oldest son died in the war.
John Surrat Sr. , that is. He died before the war.
Thanks for that information. Most conspirator historians know that. Makes me wonder if the speaker even knows what he is talking about and how much other misinformation he is saying.
Interested in the wanted poster and why John Surratt was on there. What did the authrities know about their association. Other than Mary's relationship to those bad boys
Were any of these people actually convicted...Or merely declared guilty?
The most enduring mystery is how authorities knew about Booth's association with John Surratt, Jr. Herrold, Atzerodt, Powell, and the others were convicted by the Military Tribunal
A favor of will be there for the catch.
There’s some factual mistakes in this presentation, as well as some passed over well known and accepted knowledge about the assassination.
you need to talk to Tom Petty!
I think Stephen Douglas died in early 1861.
According to the rules of presidential succession in 1865, only Vice President Johnson, and not Seward or Grant, was in line to replace Lincoln if he died. If Johnson had died, an acting President would be appointed until a special election could be held to elect a new President (and not a Vice President).
The acting President would have been the president pro tempore of the Senate, Lafayette Sabine Foster of Connecticut
John Surratt went to Canada and met up with officials of the Confederate States of America that were still there, wonder what they talked about
Booth was 26 years of age at the time of his death, not 27...
noooo, are u serious clark. remember cousin eddie from christmas vacation!! lolol. an the dog... ''snots.. now you get out from under the tree an stop drinking the water'' ''SNOTS now u go lay down an stop bothering clark''
" WHO " was in charge of security , " One " secret service agent guarding the door , One guard was he wearing a nappy ,
There was no secret service at the time. Lincoln's "guards" was a member of the police force.
@@GustDimoulias There was a guard assigned to him , whether he was police or a treasury agent is irrelevant , this guard was an alcoholic, possibly with a weak bladder , this single guard had a F**KING BOSS that`s the Point
when Lincoln was on a horse on a trail new his home retreat, a bullet traveled thru his top hat. an he stated after ward, ''must have been a stray round from a hunter or something '' he was right, that was me- i was hunting elk, an seen his top hat an mistaken it for a 2 point buck. took the shot not wanting to go home empty handed, i've never spoken of this till now, 'im sorry to poke that hole in his top hat. he handled it ok tho, he just dusted it off an got back on his horse, so thank goodness for that.. but my bad!!
He had a broken spine or a broken neck do you think the soldiers gently carried him into the house so they just dragged him and let his head just flop all around that's probably one of the reasons why I didn't live very long they weren't very interested in saving his life or doing something nice for him they probably just let him lay there like a demon like a devil those guys were like worshiping the devil in what the devil does the acts of the devil
Why on earth did the narrator fail to mention Lincoln sitting in the chair, in the office of CSA' s president? Radical Republicans surreptitiously removed a softheaded, softhearted president with "charity for all, and malice towards none" when enormous "chamagne/caviar golden/spike fortunes" East could be made on uniformly guaged USMRR transportation systems at war's end reverting to civilian ownership while the south still lay smoldering in ruinous heaps. And the narrator cheats you big time on Boston Corbett at the tobacco barn. Since he doesn't mention Wichman at the boarding house he probably didn't read the trial transcripts, 4 different transcriber versions taken contemporaneously in shorthand.
Where John Surrat Jr went, to CSA in Montreal (not Virginia) is where Booth was headed and given all the pictures of various girls and senator's daughters that Booth had in his pocket, he was off to the welcoming bosom of the French woman (csa intelligence) who probably romanced that diamond stick pin; you know the one Booth used to scribe/etch a secret message to a hotel maid onto the window in his hotel room, late 1862, something about poisoning Lincoln.
Just like JFK was after his assassination, Lincoln was turned into some kind of saint after he was killed. Actually, in his earlier years he wasn't against slavery in the South: what he didn't want though was that the system was expanded to other states, but he did not condemn the slaves in the South. That is too often forgotten today. Having said that, assassination is rarely a good thing, unless maybe - and I mean maybe - that of dangerous characters as Heydrich, which are not easy to replace by others who are as lethal.
We all ready know this, parrot
Lincoln was against African American slavery. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation which freed African Americans held in bondages in States making war on the USA.
According to the book The Lincoln Conspiracy by David Balsiger published in 1977 Booth escaped Washington DC with a smuggler friend named Ed Henson and NOT David Herold. The book also says that Lewis Thornton Powell and Lewis Payne were 2 different people and although Lewis Powell carried out the attack on Steward Lewis Payne was found guilty. The book says confession statements by O'Laughlin and Atzerodt state that Payne and Powell were separate individuals. Evidence indicates that Payne was arrested and framed for his cousin, Powell's evil deed. Is any of this true? These facts in The Lincoln Conspiracy book differ from what I have read in all the other Lincoln Assassination books. The Lincoln Conspiracy book also says a man named James William Boyd was killed in Garrett's barn ant NOT Booth. Is that true?
Wrong
he did not say NEGRO sir lol...at least this presenter cleaned up the language...
There is doubt that he actually said it at all. Not that he wouldn’t have used the word, but the statement as portrayed may not have actually happened.
@@razmo21 we talking about John Wilkes Booth?
Have you heard of what Nrgrofoot, Virginia was called?
@@morehyeshiahhistorylessons94 Yeah, Booth. He was supposedly with Lewis Powell listening to Lincoln’s speech when he said that,. I believe that after Powell described what Booth had said to authorities, a reporter added that statement to spice up the story for his newspaper. At least that is what I read recently.
Booth did however try to get Powell to immediately shoot Lincoln at the speech but Powell refused, for obvious reasons.
I haven’t heard of that town.
@@razmo21 Negrofoot, Virginia was called N word foot...Virginia...
Virginia was the capital of the Confederacy...
Alexander Stevens came from Georgia and Jefferson Davis came from Mississippi and their capital was in Virginia...Davis was the son-in-law of the slave owner and President Zachary Taylor...
Can we believe that Booth with his willingness to sacrifice his career...and take advantage of Powell and the others...would not use the other N word?
@@morehyeshiahhistorylessons94 No. I have no doubt that he used the N-word many many many times as most people did back then even in casual conversations. Even Northerners. It is only in the mid to late 20th century that the word became verboten .
The only think that is in question is that he made that statement at that particular point in time at the 2nd inauguration. Not that it matters much. Just a technicality mostly to make a point about flourishments added by newspaper reporters of the day.to make things more dramatic and sell more papers.
Whether he actually made the statement or not, it is certainly believable that he would.
Lincoln was our best President he carried for the people not trump
this murdering monster had to go by whatever means. Just go to Antietam, Cold Harbor and Gettysburg to feel men between worlds - All of the battlefields where War was non of any neccesity
Lincoln wasn't a murdering monster. You can put a good share of the blame on Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee along with a bunch of radical hotheads in South Carolina. The South started the war at Fort Sumpter, South Carolina. The South wanted to keep black chattel slavery in place. Also, the Industrial Revolution with new rifle technology with the Minie ball, the more reliable and faster fire percussion cap musket and rifle, and mass produced smoothbore artillery all gave the defender a strong advantage over the attacker. The railroad and steamboat all kept large armies supplied continuously year around with fodder for animals, supplies, ammunition, food, medical supplies, fresh draft animals and replacement soldiers. This meant the fighting with skirmishers and small unit fire fights went on continuously day after day with smaller battles happening several times a week with large battles happening almost every month. This type of industrial age fighting was unheard of during Napoleon's time when armies fought one or two battles per campaign season then had to disperse to live off the land for food and fodder. The steamboat and railroad allowed large concentrations of men to be maintained in the field for literally years on end.
It would be nice for you to explain how the large casualties at Antietem, Cold Harbor, Shiloh, Corinth, Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Franklin, Murfreesburough, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg and elsewhere could have been avoided. Many smaller battles with lesser numbers of men in the West still had thousands of casualties with a 30 percent loss. The country needed to settle the slavery issue once and for all. All of these battles simply had to happen because our political system had failed to deal with the slavery issue for over 80 years. The day President Polk conquered Mexico in the 1846-48 war the seeds of the Civil War were sown. Polk's conquests expanded American territory to the Pacific ocean. The slavery issue in these new territories with plenty of violence started up shortly thereafter. Bleeding Kansas in the later 1850's. So good luck trying to stop the Civil War or avoid it with few casualties. No one solved the attacker's problem of the improved firepower of an entrenched defender until the development of the tank in World War One.
@@rexfrommn3316 you're trying to talk sense to people who aren't going to listen
@@marrenrue7731 I suppose you are right. Some Union commanders tried open order tactics but these required experienced veteran troops with skirmishing type skills. Most Civil War draftees were only trained to march and shoot in volleys in double ranks under the Napoleonic drill system. Somehow the attacking commander had to get enough superiority over the defender, usually three to one, with artillery support to shootdown in large enough numbers of their enemy to drive away the defender. Many Union and Confederate regiments had smoothbore muskets. The smoke on the battlefield hid enemy units so much that engaging individual targets was difficult. So buck and ball rounds with smoothbore percussion cap muskets were employed and the skirmishing troops used rifled Enfield or Springfield muskets.
Probably around Gettysburg, most regiments that wanted rifled muskets had them but the parabolic trajectories meant inexperienced troops shot over their enemy targets at 200 meters. So it took a long time for troops to estimate range of their targets and understand the rising parabolic trajectory of the rifled musket. The massing of troops with smoothbore muskets firing buck and ball or buckshot rounds were devastating at close range of meters causing mass casualties for both sides.This regimental shotgun effect was used in every American war from the Revoultionary war until at least Gettysburg then it waned as rifles were ubiquitous by this time.
White supremacists are still seething 155 years later about Lincoln.
There is no difference between the first 13 colonies wanting independents from Great Britain and the 10 states of the south want to govern them self. I read that someone asked a southern soldier why he was fighting and he said he was fighting for “his rats “ Lincoln got the same as what he forced upon many of young northern soldiers. Making his general attack heavily fortified southern positions. He talked differently but life was cheap to Lincoln.
Another Democrat sin.
Trump is the greatest president ever.
idiot
Is this person real? It’s the same one who asked up above, “if they didn’t like Catholics, what was the main religion” 🙄 Learning a little bit ‘bout history can go a long way... just saying. If you did, you’d see that Trump is a puppet whose letting Jesuits like Fauci restructure our nation for a Technocrat era. And Biden is no better, he’s part of the Democrat turned socialist “crime family“ that relies heavily on nepotism and didn’t give one hoot about the people. All I ask for is BETTER candidates. But that won’t happen until we expose the corrupt hidden hands that are fighting for control over this country: the tech backed bankers, especially the unconstitutional federal reserve, and the international conglomerate corporations. It will always end up tragically when individuals gain more money, and thus more power, then entire nations.
@@chilltarts Trump has all the information that China uses to blackmail people. Things will happen in his second term.
@@chachee15 he didn’t have one lol
@@Zexris-zf9hq not yet. Actually the military is in control of the country. They are sworn to defend the Constitution and all the election fraud and foreign interference makes him illegitimate.