S3 Ep39: The Lincoln Assassination's Forgotten Conspirators

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

It's a story every American grade school student learns - how the actor John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln in his box at the Ford's Theater, jumped down to the stage, and fled Washington DC until he was killed by the authorities in a barn in rural Virginia. But it's not widely known that Booth wasn't acting alone, and that President Lincoln was only one of several targets he and his conspirators planned to murder on the night of April 15, 1865. In today's episode, we tell the story of the others involved and their plot to assassinate multiple members of Lincoln's administration and throw a country just starting to recover from the Civil War into chaos.

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0:00.0	Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they change laws, change society, or even earn the label,
0:15.6	Crime of the Century.
0:18.4	But the stories that made headlines in decades past
0:21.5	aren't necessarily remembered today.
0:25.0	I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author,
0:27.5	and in each episode of this show,
0:29.5	I'll examine a case that's maybe lesser known today but was huge when it happened.
0:35.0	This is crimes of the table,
0:55.0	candlelight flickering on their faces, each with their instructions.
1:00.0	They were going to do what four years of war could not
1:03.7	Avenge the South and rid the nation of this tyrant
1:07.8	History would remember their names after this night.
1:11.4	Well, that's what they had hoped. In truth, history would remember one of their
1:15.9	names because most people think of the Lincoln assassination as the act of a single deranged person.
1:22.3	But that's not the case. The truth is there was a whole
1:25.6	conspiracy behind the death that involved a vast number of participants. This episode is about the rest of them, the ones who don't have roadside
1:36.7	markers or their childhood homes preserved as they were in the 1800s. Those who
1:42.4	plotted and planned alongside John Wilkes Booth who were captured, charged, and convicted,
1:49.2	with some even executed after a controversial trial in the wake of President Abraham Lincoln's
1:54.9	assassination but who have been crowded out of American history. Here are the alleged
2:01.0	crimes of Louis Powell, David Harold, George Atserrat, Samuel Arnold, Michael Ogloclin, John Surrette, and his mother Mary.
2:10.5	These were the other players who helped pull off the tragic events of that fateful night at Ford's
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