The BRUTAL Executions Of The Men And Women That Killed Abraham Lincoln
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- One of the most shocking moments in American History was when John Wilkes Booth entered the Presidential Box inside a theatre in Washington DC and fired his pistol at the President Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln became the first in a number of Presidents who were assassinated, but the plan to bring down the government went further. There were a number of conspirators who plotted along with Wilkes and the plan was to assassinate the Secretary of State and also the Vice President. But these two elements of the plan failed.
But shortly after Lincoln's death, hundreds of people were arrested and were accused of being involved but 8 people were brought to trial. Known as the 'Lincoln Conspirators,' these group of people were accused of being complicit in the shocking event. But after their trial 4 of them were sentenced to death, and inside of an American prison on a huge 12 foot gallows, the conspirators were executed. But who were they?
Join us today as we look at, 'The BRUTAL Execution Of The Lincoln Conspirators.' To support our channel, please make sure to subscribe.
we used to deal with traitors but now we just act like nothing happened
Remember when Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 people and injured another 17 but got no death penalty
Nowadays the bad people confuse and obscure the truth
They always accuse you of what they themselves are doing, or planning to do.
What do you mean ??
Great point
Agreed. Nowadays the corruption runs so deep traitors are actively protected by corrupt government organizations
Very cool to see you doing American history, especially Lincoln! 👍
You are dead right it’s about time we started kick ass again where the day’s you could leave the front door and windows open with no fear it’s about time people are made a countable we are to soft on crime
Nowadays we coddle murderers, put them in a jail, feed them house them, entertain them, then let them out, it's pathetic, no backbone, murderers get less time than many other crimes, if your against the death penalty you'd think different if some coward killed your loved one then laughed at you in court.
john- ''They are soft as shit in new Zealand too.
If they were definatly guilty and laughed at the victims family in court ,then yeah,prick should be killed,but its the ones who aint guilty thats the problem with the death penalty.
Exactly 💯
We are always told in our UK history lessons about John Wilkes-Booth but never about the other conspirators so this was very interesting. Thank you.
As an aside Edwin Booth, his brother was a Union man. Known at the time as being the 'best' actor though obviously we have no insight into that. A statue to him in Grammercy Park at the start of Lexington Avenue in Manhattan and you can't make this up but Edwin saved Lincoln's son from falling from a train station platform -- I think in Jersey City, NJ or Newark, NJ.
This American story is a treasure trove of interesting factoids including those around Booth's escape. He fled Washington and managed to get treatment for his broken ankle at a one Dr. Samuel Mudd's residence in Maryland. He hid in the swamps for a few days, got cornered in a tobacco barn by Union troops, and against orders was shot in the neck by Private Boston Corbett, an oddball who had previously castrated himself to avoid sexual temptation.
@@daveygivens735 Facinating stuff! Thank you….
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I love that you are covering American history. It's quite a bit different from English history.
Trying to pick a few different topics, hopefully you enjoy! Looking at France again in a few days
Really?
As a distant relative of Mary Surratt. I have read the book on her possible involvement. My personal opinion is the the trial, conviction and execution were rushed. Much like wth Kennedy. Is she was involved then the punishment fit the crime and satisfied the lust for for blood. She maintained her position on being innocent throughout the proceedings. Only those who lived through it know the real truth. My side of the family had been in Texas a generation or two by the time all this happened but I heard stories about Mary as I grew up.
It's more like a regular execution than a brutal one
Except for the fact that civilians are not to be tried in military courts without a formal declaration of martial law.
As ALWAYS, I'm Thankful to be learning So Much from your Channels!
Good morning, and again, Thank You! I hope you're doing well!
I love finding out history that I’ve never heard before!
I’ve been aware of this for a while. It was shockingly brutal…but remember we’d just killed 600,000 of our own in a civil war. The winners were taking no sh*t.
@Michael Ketcham >> Well, if you say so.
@Michael Ketcham >> Oh. You’re one of those.
@Michael Ketcham you gonna do his dishes, Cowboy? 🤪
Good history lesson 👏, keep em comming
I'm a direct decendant of George Washington Lafayette Bickley who was the head of (Knights of the golden circle) who is rumored to have been envolved in this. Very ashamed of him.
Whenever I think of Lincoln. His reverent place in the Pantheon of the American mythos. He's lauded for his accomplishments, while guiding a fractured nation through a war to end slavery. Admired for his virtue, strength of character, and wisdom. Not just by Americans, but around the world he is considered an exemplar of the better angels of our nature. One of the greatest historical figures, to live
So when I've wax philosophically, I've come to the conclusion, that there could have been no other outcome, than what was, and is. A light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long. But it casts the warmest glow.
His assassination, as tragic as it was. Is why he is still revered. There wasn't a second term to tarnish him. He lived long enough to accomplish what he was meant to. In his death, we are left with what we should strive to emulate.
Not an embattled figure who after the war, would have slipped into history, lesser the ideal for it. Were all the better because of him
Well said !
He killed 750,000 people for, in his own words, REVENUE TAX MONEY!
Thats the idealized version of Lincoln that we all learned about, but look closely and you might see a cynical politician who dragged the nation through hell, disregarding the law and the constitution when it didn't suit him. The greatest presidents are the ones who kept the nation out of war and conflict and are forgotten by history.
@Jimbo 757 One side of Lincoln:
Abraham Lincoln, Lawyer and US Congressman, 12 January 1848 on the floor of the US House of Representatives:
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and for a new one that suits them better. *THIS IS A MOST VALUABLE, - A MOST SACRED RIGHT - a RIGHT,* which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it."
The OTHER SIDE of Lincoln:
Lincoln's Presidential Proclamation NO. 81, April 19, 1861 (five days after Ft Sumter)
Whereas an insurrection against the Government of the United States has broken out in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and the laws of the United States *FOR THE COLLECTION OF THE REVENUE* can not be effectually executed therein conformably to that provision of the Constitution *WHICH REQUIRES DUTIES (REVENUE) TO BE UNIFORM THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES;* ....."
1865 not 1685!
Booth screamed sic semper tyranis. Virginia’s state moto, latin for death to tyrants. Than jumped onto the stage
There isn't anthing conclusive about what John Wilkes Booth said after the assassination. It could have been "ouch". Southern legend says it was "Sic semper tyrannis", probably because it sounded cool. It would have been an easy jump for Booth but his foot got caught in the bunting. To mention the obvious, the caption on the assassination date is a couple of hundred years off.
And Booth was correct!
@@dealy4801 ITS the state motto of Virginia, which may have been his home country!
Dealy And ended up as the 2nd State invaded by the Union on 21 July 1861.
@@dealy4801 Yep, the Union _LOVES_ slavery and only abolished it on paper *AND* eight months AFTER it's invasion of Dixie!
Ah. I've been waiting for you to cover this one. John Wilkes gets way too many educational videos on him. But not many on his partners. I knew about this since high school. Teachers never taught us. I just got curious one day and used Google to read about the assassination.
On the original In Search of ... they talked about his partners, too.
Booth didn't stab the orchestra leader instead he slashed the union officer Rathbone in the arm. Booth leaped from Lincoln's box and broke his leg.
Yes, and he didn’t jump box to box.
And he didn't shout freedom, he shouted "Sic Semper Tyrannis".
This Brit needs to do his homework.
@A Mcmenemy The State motto of Virginia! And, Booth was correct!
I wonder where he found this misinformation?
Booth didn't yell "freedom" after shooting Lincoln. He yelled "Sic semper tyrannis" or "Ever thus to tyrants."
Mary Surratt begged, "Please don't let me drop". There was no trap door. The FLOOR was designed to fall out from under them, suddenly leaving them suspended, mid-air, by their necks. This was done to insure a slow, torturous death. Indeed, it took up to 15 minutes of horrific strangling, to kill all four. Whst their minds endured, during those terrible minutes, can only be imagined. Upon removal of nooses and hoods, their faces must have been ghastly to observe.
They left the hoods in place and placed name tags in each "coffin" so there would be no mistake if their remains were ever exhumed in the future.
Walking past your own grave would be a horrific site.
I can't argue with the sentences, except perhaps that of Mary Suratt who likely had only limited involvement in the conspiracy. But the trial was rushed, the defendants had little chance to offer a reasonable defense. Even in the aftermath of the assassination and the horrific war America should have observed the Rights of the accused to a fair trial and not vengeance.
What likely had little involvement... Oh because she's a woman of course. Because that just wouldn't be possible.
It was pointless for John Wilkes Booth to do this. Had he done this deed 2 or 3 years earlier it would have made sense .
Why would it have made sense?
@@michaelpalmieri7335 It would have eliminated this tyrant and stopped the Northern aggression of tyrannical war
@m9078jk3 Same it didn't but Lincoln thought he could skip the death and destruction he dumped on so many all because he wanted REVENUE TAX MONEY!
Those greedy cowardly slave holders were the tyrants you sick bastard!
@TheRuthyc Slavery was *LEGAL* under the US Constitution: Migration and Importantion Clause, Fugitive Slave Clause, 3/5 Compromise Clause, 4th Amendment, 5th Amendment, 9th Amendment and 10th Amendment.
Slavery was *LEGAL* according to the federal laws of Congress (Legislative Branch): 1793 Fugitive Slave Act, 1820 Missouri Compromise, 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, 1854 Kansas - Nebraska Act.
Slavery was *LEGAL* according SCOTUS (Judicial Branch): 1857 Dred Scott v Sanford decision based on the 5th Amendment.
Slavery was *LEGAL* according to the 16th president, Abraham Lincoln (Executive Branch): "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful (constitutional) right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Also, he quoted the Constitution'sFugitiveSlaveClauseinparagraph 9. (1st Inaugural Speech)
*Therefore,* a war on slavery violates the US Constitution and all three branches of the Federal government making it *unconstitutional, illegal and hypocritical.*
Care to try again? Lincoln said secession was LEGAL and hie STATED REASON for invading the South was.... ready for this.... REVENUE TAX MONEY!
Want the documents, as in PLURAL?
My parents, my brother and I went to visit the B&O R.R. museum and we saw the steam locomotive with the picture of Aberham Lincoln for his funeral train. I might still have the picture.
They REALLY screwed poor Mary……..
It is always interesting to see a part of my history presented by someone who isnt from here. Makes me wonder if someone not from the US might go down a line of research that someone from the US might not really consider.
isn't
Americans know nothing of their own history, the education system is just so far behind the rest of the world it's not funny. Mark Twain once said that Americans started wars to help them learn geography. Talk about a backward country.
We have gutless politicians
At: 2:30 into the video, Booth did NOT shout "Freedom". Historical records report that Booth yelled "Sic Semper Tyrannis" (translation: "thus always to tyrants"). You may research this easily.
I'm neutral on this topic. Both sides made mistakes.
@Michael Ketcham ahh you heartbroken that you can’t own slaves?
@@im4run I’m sure the same goes for you when it comes to killing babies. You sad about that?
@@im4run Prove slavery had anything to do with what Lincoln did? I DARE YOU!
@@MGTOWPaladinyou got a rebel flag nobody cares what you have to say 💀
The military had no jurisdiction.
NOT just 3 men and one woman more to it than this!!
First motion photography,Alexander Gardner also photographed President Lincoln.
Love it!
I don't think Lewis Powell/Payne [4+ other alises, incl John Woods was it with Mary Surratt?] the man has not yet been properly accounted: a detached rider w/ 43rd Virginia cavalry partisan rangers unsurrendered, dissolved by Mosby in the field 7 days after the assassination. Q1: Whom among any of Mosby's raiders (no matter how young) would have taken a defective Whitney on such a critical mission? Q2: if .44 cal Derringer was so damn small, why wouldn't JWB bring 2 when he learned around noon (collecting his fan mail at Ford's) that General Grant and Julia (who changed her mind about 6pm that night because of a sick relative in NY but more because she hated Mary Todd) would be seated with the Lincolns that night?? Bang Bang?? Make it make sense ...
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Connie Booth is a direct descendant who emigrated to the UK to live and co-wrote a successful comedy with Monty Python legend John Cleese. They starred with thespians Prunella Scales and Andrew Sachs in two series of six episodes with the last episode winning a Montruex Award. Acting was in her blood as was her doomed antecedent. John and Connie married but it didn’t last and she left him heart broken and with alimony payments to keep her in the style she had become accustomed to.
Fawlty Towers, an absolutely hilarious show.
they didn't have the medical tech,back in those yrs.that was a,big bummer.
Mary Surratt was innocent...This was so terrible...
God bless Dixie💚
Sic Semper Tyrranis.
Dixie forever x
This is somewhat like the Gunpowder Plot that they were trying to kill the head of the government.
Lincoln commuted many death penalties and probably would have commuted these as well.
Of course they were. Couldn't risk them going to trial and revealing who was really behind the assassination and attempted coup.
Grant and his wife were supposed to go with Lincoln. However Grant wanted to see his kids.
Well they left that out of the history class in school
The execution was actually botched as the drop was not long enough to kill all 4 instantly.
In fact two.. Herold and Powell thrashed and writhed for over five minutes
pig- they reakon the female was actually innocent, as Confederates were just staying at her Bed and breakfast.
ALWAYS 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Please: was killed in 1865. In 1685 only there were colonies in The North of America.
Maybe verboten to mention it here, but I learned all of this by reading Bill O'Reilly's "Killing Lincoln". Also, you misspelled JUSTIFIABLE in your title.
There are numerous words that are spelled differently in "AMERICAN" English as opposed to "BRITISH" English.
there were Confederate soilders waiting for Booth across the Potomac river. The orders too kill abe Lincoln came from- Richmond town in Virginia
Originally they were going to kidnap him but decided on plan b
no! it wasn"t 36 degrees C. as the U S does NOT! use celsius--- say it was 98.6 F
Was executed Lewis Powell a time traveller?
All very interesting to hear about the other conspirators, but this whole scenario unfolded because
Lincoln was having printed his version of ‘Greenbacks’ that were equal to the banksters currency, and the banksters cannot have that! They should have gone after those people who helped the conspirators get as far as they did!
Well done!💐👍🏻
The monotonous voice of the speaker is annoying.
The real conspirators have never even been charged.
Let me guess Phil. MAGA?
Mary’s husband died of alcoholism and she prepared the last drink. 😂
Brutal, HOW ???
Read another account of the General (and his wife) who were in Lincoln's booth at the assassination. Both where thrown into an insane asylum shortly afterwards and both were dead within a month. The general had just endured the Civil War and he couldn't handle the trauma? Hmmm.
And oddly enough the pistol used is the same model/caliber Mary Todd was known to carry.
And lastly Mary Todd was denied death benefits three times by Congress(?) before receiving. She's the lone widow to ever be denied.....hmm.
Oh, let's not forget Mary Todd was a heroin (laudenum) addict.
He was a major actually and he was thrown into an asylum because years later he killed his wife (the woman who was his fiancée at the time of the assassination). He lost his mind after it and tried to kill his children when his wife intervened so he killed her. Terrible story.
Mary Todd set upp her yankee husband too be killed. She had allot off Kin back in Kentucky who were Konfederates.''
Lincoln is my hero.
Do cheap pine coffins scare you more than expensive oak ones?😈
Na.
I wanna mine to be made out of Lead, with an cobalt-60 lining, filled with mercury and anthrax/cyanide.
I want it to be the kind literarily NO ONE want to get even remotely close to.
Then perhaps i might get some peace and quiet.
That's defnetly unique😂
I guess it is very peaceful not to exist ,just like it was before you came to this world.
Now do the conspiracy to kill Roosevelt Franklin Delano
@@Zelda_Kitty FDR was not assassinated ;)
@@Zelda_Kitty welll.... was there a conspiracy ? if yes, it deserves a vid probably
Brutal? Very subjective.
Hung as they should've been! They took too long to complete there task!
Mary surrat was innocent, of course.
I've always believed that.
How would anyone today know?
Total nonsense. Johnson was a co-conspirator not a target
SUBTITLES SAY 1685
Executing heroes, real shame.
👍 But, the truth is getting out!
Please listen to your narration, to much lilt at the end of sentences. A shame as most interesting posts .
Not much new
Ten Abraham Niwey nie używał!!!!!!,he,he
Lincoln had a black servant 🤣🤣🤣🤣😁😆😄😃😏🤨🤓👍
Hey I Watch this if this was true but it is true just say something don’t get mad at me don’t disbelieve me I am tucker wyne powell he is my greatx12 uncle so Lewis powell is my greatx12 uncle
That's sad ,,,ole Abe burnt down my plantation for nothing and every other place in the south. When he was shot the war was over.
Watch the movie " The Conspiritor" about Mary Surrot. She was hung and was not even part of ot..
Yes she was. Do not base a historical opinion on a movie.
It was a movie. It was not true to life.
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Not brutal at all.
You have interesting content but sorry you are such an awfull narator. Could you please get somebody else to do it. Somebody with the right tone of voice, who does not talks through his nose, someone who does not say every last word of the sentence downwards, someone I can hold on listening to longer then thirty seconds.
Nothing here that wasn't taught in grade school .
God Save Our Union.
@Michael Ketcham save it from the current resident in the WH. Lincoln was nothing compared to that 💩 head
Union of Yankee Invaders who, in Lincoln's words, fought for REVENUE TAX MONEY!
That gallows should be rebuilt for every single J6 conspirator, for the poetic justice.
Well there goes Nancy since it was orchestrated by her. What a dumb ass comment by a brainwashed leftist.
@@onyx7273 Short bus rider says what?
@@donyoung7874 idk you said it. You tell me. Boosters have gone to your brain.
@@onyx7273 "I don't know" You don't know much, that's apparent.
@@onyx7273 It's ironic, trumpers are well known racists and here's one with the username "Onyx". MAGATs just don't get irony, it's too fine for their neolithic brains to discern. I might as well define "discern" for you while I'm here, I'm sure that's a highfalutin' new word for you. It means to recognize or perceive.
Boof?
I'll have to confirm this, but I once heard that Jefferson Davis was caught wearing women's clothing to hide who "she" was. 🤣
It was a media lie.
When yankee cavalry rode into his camp his wife tossed a shawl over his shoulders as he was walking away from their tent. The women's clothes story apparently arose from that simple occurrence but it was sensational though untrue. Media doing what media does.
Commonly reported in the union press at the time but it was a lie
In the 1860s, many clothes were HAND-MADE, so outer coats had to do double-duty for men and women. Especially in the South which didn't have all the textile industries of the North.
Just because Lincoln shared a bed with a man didn't make him gay! But, one can wonder!
Booth should be celebrated
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@Grassy Sands The New York World, a newspaper published in New York City from 1860 until 1931, wrote: "He (Lincoln) has proclaimed emancipation only where he has notoriously no power to execute it. *The exemption of the accessible parts of Louisiana, Tennessee, and Virginia renders the Proclamation not merely futile, BUT RIDICULOUS!"*
The London Spectator, weekly British magazine first published in 1828, mocked the Union, "The Union government liberates the enemy's slaves as it would the enemy's cattle, simply to weaken them in the conflict. The principles (of the Proclamation) is not that a human being can not justly own another, *BUT that he can not own another UNLESS he is loyal to the Union!"*
Lincoln's Secretary of State William Seward said, "We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipation slaves where we can not reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free!"
@Grassy Sands You're right about Lincoln wanting to deportation them. BUT, he wanted to send them to Liberia (in Africa), to the Caribbean, to the Chiriqui region (modern Panama) and as a last suggestion, he wanted to move them to Texas, like the Trail of Tears, I guess.
@Grassy Sands I don't know if he had any presidential authority to do that, as SCOTUS claimed in 1857 Dred Scott v Sanford decision, that blacks, whether free or slave, were not citizens of the US. But, the 13th Amendment may have changed all that!
Why?
It's a shame Booth got away....
Huh? Lincoln was killed in 1685??
Booth wasn't killed in the barn.😎
1685.?
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The GOP originated at this time. Is your nickname Einstein 👋
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