The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Death at the Theatre (Part 1)
Dominic and Tom launch into the final days of one of America鈥檚 greatest presidents; Abraham Lincoln. Who would be his assassin, and where would he meet this tragic reckoning?
After passing the 13th amendment, in the closing weeks of the brutal American Civil War, what did president Abraham Lincoln - recently re-elected - do next to inflame his detractors? Crippled with guilt for the death and destruction of the war, was he indeed a unionist tyrant? What did Lincoln decide to do with the defeated rebel states? And, with time ticking for Lincoln鈥檚 life, who was John Wilkes Booth, the racist actor bent on Lincoln鈥檚 destruction?
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Producer: Theo Young-Smith
Assistant Producer: Tabby Syrett + Aaliyah Akude
Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor
