Assassinations Podcast Episodes featuring Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Part 3: Confederate Conspiracy

Assassinations - April 22, 2019 07:01 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
Just days after the Civil War came to an end in 1865, the nation was thrown into chaos once again when President Abraham Lincoln was killed. The ensuing manhunt for his killer, John Wilkes Booth, would test the loyalties of the still-divided country. Parcasters - What was it like to live through ...

Abraham Lincoln Pt. 2: Sic Semper Tyrannis

Assassinations - April 15, 2019 07:01 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
John Wilkes Booth was a nationally-renowned star actor, but his most memorable performance at Ford's Theater in D.C. would take place in the presidential box. On April 14, 1865, when the Civil War was all but officially over, Booth and his co-conspirators set in motion a last-ditch plan to destab...

Abraham Lincoln Pt. 1: John Wilkes Booth

Assassinations - April 08, 2019 07:01 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
Famed actor John Wilkes Booth was rehearsing with a touring company in St. Louis, when he pointed a prop pistol at his castmate and said, "If you were President Abraham Lincoln, what a chance I'd have." He may have been joking at the time, but two years later in 1865, Booth's chance finally arriv...