A Nation in Crisis: John Wilkes Booth Pt. 1

As the American Civil War comes to a close, the renowned stage actor John Wilkes Booth decides it's time to enter the theatre of war. He assassinates President Lincoln, plunging the country into one of its darkest moments. Booth is later shot at a farm in Eastern Virginia and dragged out onto a porch so that everyone can hear his dying words: a final message for his mother. Forty-two years later, a lawyer claims the man shot at the farm was not the president’s assassin. The lawyer gives a detailed deathbed confession of a man claiming to be the real John Wilkes Booth. If true, it will rewrite American history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices