72: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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Around three o'clock, lincoln does something he's rarely done in a good long while. He enjoys an open carriage ride with his wife mary. She can see the joy in him too. They have plans to travel like so many of us hope to in retirement. But at the same time, john willt booth is meeting with co conspirators. And that plan is to assassinate vice president andrew johnson, secretary of state, william henry seward and lincoln himself,. simultaneously. At ten 15 to night, george atsrot sits at the bar in the kirkwood house. The goat wearing thick accented german immigrant has a room here to
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