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John Wilkes Booth and the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theather

This is an excerpt from the video "Lincoln's Last Night - Part 1: The Assassination". Watch the video in full length here:    • Lincoln's Last Night - Part 1: The Assassi...   No man embodies the "American Dream" more than Abraham Lincoln. His vision of the unity of the United States in freedom and the abolition of slavery made him an icon. Lincoln was assassinated in Washington's Ford Theatre on Good Friday 1865 because of his visionary policies. Subscribe to wocomoHISTORY: https://goo.gl/oXDoxY Follow us on Facebook:   / wocomo   With a mixture of documentary film and modern docu-drama, an exciting parallel story is told parallel story of Abraham Lincoln and his assassin John Wilkes Booth. On April 14, 1865, at Ford's Theather in Washington, D.C. the President Abraham Lincoln is attending a performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin" with the famous Laura Keene. But among the audience, one person seeks to avenge the South, and to cause a paralyzing confusion within the government. This man is John Wilkes Booth, a sucessfull actor and a fierce Confederate sympathizer during the Civil War. Booth considered Lincoln to be responsible for America's greatest crisis. As a proslavery apologists, he was horrified to hear Lincoln calling for educated Black men, and those who had served as soldiers, to be given the right to vote. For Booth and his conspirators there was no other way out than to assasinate President Lincoln. Original title: Lincoln's Last Night - Part 1: The Assassination A film by Wilfried Hauke © 2009, Licensed by Vidicom #history #documentary #civilwar #lincoln #usa