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Name: Killing Lincoln
Rating: 4.3 (75 reviews)
Author: Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard

Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard

The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

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What’s in it for me? Follow the events that led to the killing of Lincoln.

Did you know that, historically speaking, assassination is common at the end of any war? Abraham Lincoln was very well aware of this fact, but he also had an optimistic belief that the nation could be healed after the end of the American Civil War.

However, not everyone wants to heal the wounds of war, and a few days after the war came to an end in 1865, president Lincoln was shot dead. These blinks tell the violent story of the conspiracy that led to the death of the sixteenth president of the United States.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

how Lincoln was almost poisoned;
that Lincoln’s killer’s motives were driven by white supremacist beliefs; and
why boredom and thirst for ale made the shooting of Lincoln easy.

It’s April 1865, the end of American Civil War is in sight, but a conspiracy against President Lincoln looms.

Let’s travel back in time to 1865 and the first days of April. At this time, the United States had been struggling through four violent years of civil war, ever since eleven Southern states had decided to secede and form the Confederacy in an effort to preserve the practice of slavery.

For four bloody years, Confederate and Union forces had been engaged in brutal combat, while the Union president, Abraham Lincoln, continued to hold on to his hopes for reunification.

That April, Lincoln’s hopes seemed about to come true; an end to the bloodshed was finally in sight.

The years of fighting were taking a toll on the dwindling number of soldiers fighting under Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Of the 50,000 men remaining, only 35,000 could still fight, and these men were weary and miserable after months of endless combat.

Meanwhile, Union general Ulysses S. Grant had around 200,000 men at his disposal and a thousand more canons than his Confederate counterpart. So when the Union forces took Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy, it was clear that the war was all but finished.

However, the end of the Civil War was the beginning of the assassination plots against Abraham Lincoln.

There were so many angry Southerners that some people believed it was only a matter of when, not if, the president would be assassinated.

One such Southerner was John Wilkes Booth, who believed that drastic action must be taken if slavery, and the southern way of life, was to be preserved. Booth believed that, if Robert E. Lee failed, it was up to men like him to carry on the fight for the Confederacy.

Although the Confederate army is close to escape, it has to surrender on April 9, 1865.

After the fall of Richmond, Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army, half-starved, was tired and on the run. But even though their food supplies were gone, Lee’s men were extremely close to escaping the Union forces that were hot on their heels.

Lee had a plan. His army was headed toward food rations that were waiting for them in Farmville, Virginia, and, from there, it was a short march across High Bridge, which they could burn down after crossing, thus slowing the Union troops. This would give them time to regroup and continue the fight.

Lincoln was no stranger to death threats; meanwhile, John Wilkes Booth forges his violent plans.

After four horrific years of Americans killing one another and over 600,000 lives lost, there was much rejoicing when the war finally came to an end. That is, as long as you were a Union sympathizer.

In Washington, there was indeed cause for celebration, but Abraham Lincoln knew that a great challenge lay ahead: to heal the wounded nation and bring the Southern states back into the Union.

John Wilkes Booth determines to shoot Lincoln at the theater, and he carries out his plan.

Abraham Lincoln was raised in a Christian home and read the Bible each and every day, so he always observed Good Friday as a day to reflect upon the death of Jesus Christ.

But on April 14, 1865, the Lincolns were scheduled to see a play at Ford’s Theater, for which the First Lady, Mary Lincoln, had purchased tickets.

On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln and Secretary of State Seward fall victim to a violent conspiracy.

Not far from the theater where the Lincolns were enjoying the play, a man named Lewis Powell knocked on the door of a building known as the “Old Clubhouse,” the home of Lincoln’s colleague, the US Secretary of State William Seward.

Powell was a co-conspirator of John Wilkes Booth; it was his job to murder Seward.

John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s killer, escapes to Maryland, but is found and shot dead days after.

As word spread of Lincoln’s death, the flags in Washington were moved to half-mast and people everywhere fell into a state of shock. Certainly, the once beloved Ford’s Theater would now be forever associated with this tragic event.

Soon after, Vice President Andrew Johnson was sworn in as the seventeenth president of the United States.

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Killing Lincoln (2011) tells the story behind the assassination of president Abraham Lincoln, which took place in 1865, shortly after the Confederate army had surrendered, effectively putting an end to the US Civil War. Learn all about the conspirators who plotted the killing, what their motives were and the details surrounding the fateful night at Ford’s Theater.

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If Im killed I can die but once. – Abraham Lincoln

—Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard

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Über den Autor

Bill O’Reilly is best known for his political commentary show, The O’Reilly Factor, on Fox News. He is also the coauthor of a series of historical books, including Killing Kennedy, Killing Reagan and Killing Jesus.

Martin Dugard is an American author and journalist. With Bill O’Reilly, he coauthored Killing Kennedy, Killing Reagan and Killing Jesus.

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