Presidents Unplugged

#16 The Bullet on the Balcony (Week 4 of 5)

Ty Svenson Season 2 Episode 7

In this haunting fourth episode of the Spooky Month of Assassinations, we step inside Ford’s Theatre on the tragic night of April 14, 1865. Abraham Lincoln, so close to the end of the Civil War, sat beside Mary Todd, enjoying the play Our American Cousin, unaware of what was about to change the course of history forever. John Wilkes Booth, a celebrated actor turned assassin, slipped into the president’s box and fired the shot that forever changed a nation. From Lincoln’s eerie dream days before his death to Booth’s doomed escape through the south, this episode unravels one of history’s darkest nights as we near the conclusion of this haunting month.

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