The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Manhunt for the Killer (TRIH ep 591, part 2)
1865 · Resource
This episode recounts the assassination of Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre on 4 April 1865 and its immediate aftermath. Tom and Dominic narrate John Wilkes Booth’s entry to the presidential box, the shooting, the panic in the theatre, and Lincoln’s removal to a nearby boarding house where he dies the next morning.
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Around 1865
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Bismarck's chancellorship (1871)