Killing Lincoln
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Harry Ford:
Hello, John.
John Wilkes Booth:
[humming].
Murcott:
I amharmless except to myself.
Florence Trenchard:
I hear you.
Mrs. Mountchessington:
You will please recollect
you are addressing
my daughter.
And in my presence.
Asa Trenchard:
Yes.I'm offering her
my heart and
hand just as
she wants them,
with nothing in 'em.
Mrs. Mountchessington:
Dear, to your room.
Augusta:
Yes, ma.The nasty beast!
Mrs. Mountchessington:
I am aware.
[gun c*cks].
Mrs. Mountchessington:
Mr. Trenchard, you are
not used to the manners
of good society and that,
alone, will excuse
the impertinence of
which you have
been guilty.
Asa Trenchard:
Don't know the manners
of good society, eh?
Well, I guess I know
enough to turn you inside out,
old woman; you
sockdologizing old man-trap!
Tom Hanks:
On the eveningof April 13th, 1865,
John Wilkes Booth
initiates his plan
not only to kill
Abraham Lincoln,
but to decapitate
the government of
the United States.
A Civil War that has
lasted four years is
drawing to an end.
While Washington City
celebrates the surrender
of Robert E. Lee's
Confederate Army,
Booth and his
co-conspirators plot
a carefully
coordinated triple murder.
John Wilkes Booth:
And?
Mister Powell?
Lewis Powell:
The Secretary of State
ain't going
nowhere soon.
Confined to his bed
and slow to recover.
Got his-self a nurse.
A little slip of a man.
And there's a
n*gger butler.
John Wilkes Booth:
Mister Atzerodt,
you will check into the
Kirkwood tomorrow morning.
Vice President
Johnson's suite is
on the first floor.
George Atzerodt:
No.John Wilkes Booth: No?
George Atzerodt:
No.I do not wish.
I cannot.
John Wilkes Booth:
It is too late, George.
We have, all of us,
conspired together.
George Atzerodt:
To capture, ya.
To kidnap one man.
Not to murder.
John Wilkes Booth:
This is an act of war.
And you are
stuck to it.
It is a tar pit from
which you cannot pull away.
And when tomorrow
night is through and
our deed is done,
we will, all of us,
be known as its authors.
I have seen to it.
And we will be
hailed as heroes!
We will meet back
here tomorrow night
at nine o'clock.
And Powell and Herold
will pay a visit
to the
Secretary of State.
Mr. Atzerodt will go to
see the Vice President.
And I will go to
Grover's Theater
for a performance of
"Aladdin" or "His
Wonderful Lamp."
And there I
will kill a tyrant.
[small explosion sound]
Tom Hanks:
This is thetrue story of the killing
of Abraham Lincoln,
the first assassination of
an American president,
and what might be the most
resonant crime in the
history of the nation.
John Wilkes Booth's
plan to kill Lincoln isn't
operation to target
the 16th president of
the United States.
At least five
kidnapping or assassination
schemes are hatched,
although none
are attempted.
None, save
perhaps one.
Abraham Lincoln
is riding alone,
as is his custom,
from the War Department
to the soldier's home where
the hot summer months.
[loud rifle shot]
Abraham Lincoln:
Whoa, whoa!
[grunts].
Help me, son!
Private Nichols:
Whoa, whoa!
[horse neighs].
Private Nichols:
Steady, steady now.
Steady.
[horse neighs].
Private Nichols:
I, uh,Abraham Lincoln:
Yes.Down by the bottom
of the hill.
That is what
frightened him so.
And, uh, he bucked and
separated me from my,
my $8 pug hat.
Private Nichols, I am
much obliged to you.
Private Nichols:
Your hat, sir.
I found it at the
bottom of the hill.
Abraham Lincoln:
It isproperly ventilated for
these hot summer months.
Likely some fellow
returning from a day's
hunt discharged his gun in
a precautionary measure of
safety before
bringing it into his home.
I assure you I am in
greater danger from a
rumor of snipers
than I am from your
silence in this affair.
I would ask that you tell
no one of this adventure.
Private Nichols:
Sir, I.
Abraham Lincoln:
I willPrivate Nichols:
Yes, sir.
Tom Hanks:
Thatis Abraham Lincoln.
The self-educated
statesman who has
abolished slavery
and will go on to
end the war and
save the Union.
Yet, during his 4
years and 41 days in office,
the intensity of the
even by members of his
own party, is extreme,
even by
today's standards.
But while the killing
of Abraham Lincoln
serves to sanctify him,
to transform a
controversial
president into a
dearly beloved martyr,
it also serves to
pervert the truth
about his killer.
John Wilkes Booth,
a passionate and
well-admired man on
the path to become one
of the greatest
actors of his time,
is reduced by history
to a two-dimensional
scoundrel and
dismissed as a madman.
John Wilkes Booth:
Harder!
Faster!
Come on!
[laughs].
[audience screams].
[audience gasping].
James McCollom:
Good God, I've.
John Wilkes Booth:
It's all right, old man.
Come on hard, for God's
sake and save the fight.
[audience applause]
John Wilkes Booth:
[screams]
[audience gasps]
[audience applause]
Man:
Curtain!Bring the curtain down.
James McCollom:
Mr. Booth.
John Wilkes Booth:
Why, Mr. McCollom!
James McCollom:
Mr. Booth, I,
I am so very sorry.
John Wilkes Booth:
Come, come, old fellow.
You look as if you
had lost the blood.
Not another word.
Now, if you'd had
gotten my eye,
that would have been bad.
But you didn't.
And it was, well,
it was splendid!
James McCollom:
Thank you, sir.
Tom Hanks:
That isJohn Wilkes Booth.
Born and raised
in Maryland,
a border state,
not secede from the Union.
also a Southern zealot,
whose hatred of
Abraham Lincoln is
nothing less
than fanatical.
In October of 1864,
Booth makes contact
with the Confederate
Secret Service.
And shortly after
Lincoln's reelection,
he determines to
kidnap the President.
He stops in Philadelphia
to visit his sister, Asia.
And there he
writes a letter.
John Wilkes Booth:
To whom it may concern.
Right or wrong,
God judge me, not man.
My love is for
the South alone.
Nor do I deem it a
dishonor in attempting
to make for her a
prisoner of this man
to whom she owes
so much misery.
Edwin.
Our brother
voted for him?
Asia Booth Clarke: Yes.
John Wilkes Booth:
For a false President?
A tool of the North
slavery by robbery,
rapine and slaughter?
Oh, God, grant that
I may see the end!
This country was
formed for the white man
and not for the black.
Asia.
Lock this in
your safe for me.
I may come back for it.
But if anything
should happen to me,
open it alone and send
the letters as directed
for brother Junius
and sister Rosalie.
And one other, to
whom it may concern.
A Confederate
doing duty upon
his own
responsibility,
J. Wilkes Booth.
Abraham Lincoln:
Hmm.I will fix that
for you, son.
We'll put a fine
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