John Brown's Body (1859)
This Day
00:00
John Brown and the Battle of Harper's Ferry
John Wilkes Booth, Stonewall Jackson and John Brown were in the audience. These are three men who have a lot of influence on American history going forward. It's something that John Brown understood was that up until the moment that he died he was delivering a message to the country about slavery. He certainly when I think he had been captured and was awaiting death tried to play up as you're saying some of these cinematic details.
Play episode from 03:39
Transcript
