3: John Wilkes Booth -- Part 1: Setting the Stage

Vintage Villains

In this two-part historical odyssey, Allison and her guest Jayson Blair of the Silver Linings Handbook podcast weave through the transformative year of 1865, where the final throes of the Civil War and the ratification of the 13th Amendment are only a couple of the events that factored into John Wilkes Booth's fateful decision to murder the President of the United States.
But who was Booth, exactly? And how deep were his ties to the Confederacy? And what modern actor would you compare Booth to? We were thinking Nicolas Cage or Charlie Sheen. All that and more in Part 1. The conclusion follows next week.
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"Southern Gothic" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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RESOURCE LINKS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkes_Booth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Booth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln

https://www.loc.gov/collections/abraham-lincoln-papers/articles-and-essays/assassination-of-president-abraham-lincoln/timeline/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/lincolns-missing-bodyguard-12932069/

https://www.nationalparks.org/connect/blog/gun-shot-lincoln

Credits:
Main Theme Music -- Ken Dickson
Main Graphics -- Nathaniel Dickson

Chapter

1. John Wilkes Booth (00:00:00)

2. The Impact of Civil War Fear (00:16:54)

3. Dynastic Celebrity and Shakespearean Tragedy (00:21:06)

4. The Lincoln Kidnapping Plot (00:52:18)

5. Confederate Secret Service and Lincoln Assassination (01:00:55)

6. Arriving on the Day of the Assassination (01:08:45)