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Episode Date: May 6, 2025When Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as president in 1861, he vowed to stop the spread of slavery and keep a fractured nation from splitting apart. Just a few years later, Lincoln was shot dead for his e...fforts. But the real story behind his assassination was more complicated than anyone ever knew. Murder: True Crime Stories is a Crime House Original Podcast, powered by PAVE Studios. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. For ad-free listening and early access to episodes, subscribe to Crime House+ on Apple Podcasts. Don’t miss out on all things Murder: True Crime Stories! Instagram: @murdertruecrimepod | @Crimehouse TikTok: @Crimehouse Facebook: @crimehousestudios X: @crimehousemedia YouTube: @crimehousestudios To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Some historical figures loom so large they become legends.
It can be hard to remember they were real people like you and me.
That's certainly the case for Abraham Lincoln. His story practically
formed the blueprint for the American dream. The son of a farmer who worked tirelessly
to raise himself up until he held the highest office in the nation. It's a true rags to
riches tale. But when the Civil War broke out, that dream turned into a nightmare.
Before long, the future of the country hung in the balance, and so did President Lincoln's
own life.
And if you believe you know the whole story, think again. People's lives are like stories with a beginning, a middle, and an end.
But sometimes the final chapter comes far too soon, and we don't always get to know
the real ending.
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This is the first of two episodes on the murder of Abraham Lincoln.
In 1865, the 56-year-old sitting president was assassinated while watching a play in
Washington D.C.
Today I'll walk you through Abe Lincoln's early life and his path to the presidency. When he was sworn in, President Lincoln vowed to do whatever it took to save the Union.
It was a heavy burden to bear, and it was one that would cost him everything.
Next time, I'll detail the dramatic search for President Lincoln's killer and the shocking
conspiracy that was uncovered as a result. I'll also tell you
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Any story about Abraham Lincoln's life usually starts with some version of,
he was born in a log cabin.
And while that fact is true,
Abe's earliest years weren't quite as destitute as most people think. Even by 1800s
standards, his parents, Thomas and Nancy Lincoln, weren't poor, but they weren't rich either.
Thomas had been working as a carpenter in Elizabethtown, Kentucky when he and Nancy
got married, and although business was good, Thomas dreamed of owning land of his
own. In the early 1800s, that dream finally came true. He bought a farm called Sinking
Spring about 20 miles south of Elizabethtown, Kentucky. There he, Nancy, and their infant
daughter Sarah did live in that iconic one-room log cabin, like most frontier families at the time.
This is where the Lincolns also welcomed their second child on February 12, 1809, a boy they
named Abraham, who everyone called Abe.
Unfortunately when Abe was two, ownership of Sinking Spring came under dispute and the
family had to move again.
Since record-keeping wasn't an exact science, this happened a lot back then.
While Thomas tried to settle the matter in court, the Lincolns leased a 30-acre farm
in nearby Knob Creek.
Although Abe and Sarah were still little, both under the age of ten, they were expected
to help with tasks around the property.
It was difficult work, especially for young children, but it helped Abe and his sister
build character.
And although Thomas could be harsh and demanding, he had a kind heart.
At night, after the chores were finished, Thomas entertained his family with different
tall tales.
It seems the apple didn't fall far from the tree.
Abe could often be found retelling his father's anecdotes to the other kids in the neighborhood.
Thomas might have inspired Abe's love of public speaking, but it was his mother, Nancy, who brought
out his intellectual side.
Like most women at the time, Nancy wasn't formally educated, but she wanted more for
her children.
If they had time during the day, Nancy sent Abe and Sarah to the nearest schoolhouse.
Living in such a remote part of Kentucky, most kids didn't go to school regularly
and didn't have the money for books or writing supplies, so students learned by repeating after
their teachers. But even with the limited resources, Abe developed a deep passion for learning.
for learning. Unfortunately, seven-year-old Abe's studies were interrupted in 1816 when the Lincolns
fell on hard times.
After five years, Thomas lost the court battle over Sinking Spring Farm.
Shortly after that, the owner of Knob Creek faced legal troubles of his own, which was
bad news for the Lincolns.
They could be evicted at a moment's notice.
If all the legal problems weren't enough, Mother Nature piled on too.
After a volcanic eruption in Indonesia the previous year, the climate was all out of
whack. North America experienced a mini ice age, and 1816 became known as the Year Without
Summer.
The freezing temperatures were disastrous for farmers like the Lincolns.
We don't know for sure, but the family probably went hungry often. Understandably, by the fall of 1816, Thomas Lincoln was fed up with Kentucky.
He moved the family to a new settlement over a hundred miles away in Little Pigeon Creek,
Indiana. But it wasn't much better. The Lincolns didn't know it, but at the time, Indiana was far less developed than Kentucky.
It was basically like living in the wilderness.
Still, the family survived for two years.
Then in 1818, they were blindsided by tragedy once more.
At just 34 years old, Abe's mother Nancy died after drinking tainted milk.
Apparently it had come from a cow that ate a poisonous plant called snake root.
Nine-year-old Abe was devastated.
Without his mom, the family lost a major source of order and comfort.
A little over a year passed before Thomas was ready to move on, and once he did, it
happened fast.
He took a trip back to Kentucky and returned with a new wife.
Sarah Bush Johnston was also a widow with three kids of her own.
She'd known Abe's parents when they lived in Elizabethtown.
She and Thomas reconnected when he went back to visit, and they quickly developed feelings
for each other.
The new Mrs. Lincoln turned out to be exactly what the family needed.
She got Thomas to fix up their ramshackle cabin, demanding he install a proper floor
and plaster the spaces between the logs, but the
cabin wasn't the only thing in desperate need of some love and attention.
Before a Sarah arrived in Indiana, Abe and his sister were sleeping on straw and dressed
in tatters.
Sarah brought them comforts they hadn't known in a while, like beds and proper clothing.
The kids appreciated Sarah, and she quickly bonded with them, especially Abe.
Like his birth mother, Nancy, Sarah pushed him to be curious about the world.
She gave him three books, including a copy of the Bible, which he used to teach himself
how to read.
Unlike the women in his life, Abe's father Thomas didn't see the value in education.
Reading and writing weren't skills you needed to tend a farm, but Sarah stood up for Abe
and did what she could to supply her stepson with books. Still, formal schooling was even harder to come by in Indiana than it had been in Kentucky.
That meant Abe was almost entirely self-taught.
Throughout his teenage years, he was known to carry a book with him wherever he went,
even out in the fields.
But what really got Abe noticed was his height.
By the time he was 17 years old, he was already 6 feet 4 inches.
That's tall even by today's standards, but back in the 1820s, when the average height
for men was closer to 5 and a half feet, it was unheard of.
A lifetime of manual labor meant he was surprisingly strong, too.
That might be why in 1828, 19-year-old Abe was hired to pilot a boat carrying vegetables and
other produce down the Mississippi River. He would remember the trip forever, but not fondly.
remember the trip forever, but not fondly. When they reached their destination in New Orleans, Abraham saw a slave auction taking
place on the docks.
Growing up in Kentucky, Abe had seen his fair share of enslaved people, but his parents
had been members of Little Mount Baptist Church, which was firmly against the
practice. And while 19-year-old Abe wasn't particularly religious anymore, he still
maintained the belief that slavery was a sin against God. Witnessing the brutality firsthand
that day in New Orleans deeply disturbed him. But slavery was just one of the political
issues Abe was concerned about at the time. When he returned to Indiana, he participated in many
political discussions both at home and in public. These conversations helped to shape his sense of
how society should function. But not everyone shared his beliefs.
And soon, Abe would learn just how difficult it was
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In 1830, 21-year-old Abraham Lincoln was still just a farmer's son living in Indiana, but he was quickly growing
into a man with a deep interest in current events, and the best place to gather and talk
about them was the local general store, where Abe worked when he wasn't helping his dad.
There Abe took every opportunity to engage with the different views and opinions around him.
He honed his own beliefs and discovered he was pretty good in a debate.
The one argument he couldn't win, though, was whether the family should move again.
Although Indiana had been mostly good to the Lincoln family, Abe's father Thomas decided
to pursue greener pastures.
He had relatives in Illinois, and they wanted him to bring his family there.
They promised the soil was richer, and the milk sickness that killed his first wife didn't
exist in Illinois.
That was all Thomas needed. The family packed up and moved later that year in 1830.
Thomas bought land in Macon County, Illinois and set up a new farm.
But Abe was done with that life.
Like most people in their early twenties, he was ready to forge his own path.
However, he did put the skills his father had taught him to good use.
Abe moved to a nearby town called New Salem, also in Illinois, and began working as a handyman.
After that, he clerked at a general store before eventually opening a shop of his own.
But he wasn't the savviest businessman. The general store failed after just a couple of his own. But he wasn't the savviest businessman.
The general store failed after just a couple of years.
That's when Abe decided to change course.
With his interest in social issues and knack for debate, he decided to pursue a career
as a lawyer.
Luckily Abe had a friend with a law practice, and he hired Abe as an apprentice.
It was the first step to earning his own law license.
But Abe had even bigger dreams.
He'd been interested in politics for a few years and decided now was the time to act
on it.
So while he worked toward one goal, becoming a lawyer, he also got started on another.
In 1834, 25-year-old Abe ran for and won a seat as an Illinois state representative.
Abe spent his first session in the state house learning and observing his fellow legislators.
After a few months, he returned home to New Salem and continued
his legal studies.
By 1836, he'd really made something of himself. At just 27 years old, Abe was a licensed attorney
and was re-elected as a state representative. Except this time, his work as a legislator would be more complicated, because Abe was
facing his first formal vote on the issue of slavery.
When Illinois had become a state in 1818, only those who already owned enslaved people
were allowed to continue the practice.
But as the years went by, slavery still had a lot of support in Illinois. And for
this vote in 1836, the state legislature was proposing a resolution that supported the
legality of slavery. A was one of six legislators who voted against it. He also joined one other
representative in filing an official protest.
And although this was his first public stand against slavery, it wasn't quite as progressive
as it sounds. In filing that protest, Abe was essentially saying that while he believed slavery
was wrong, he agreed the practice was protected under the Constitution, at least for those
states where it currently existed.
It was a far cry from declaring himself an abolitionist, and it was also a strategic
move for his political career.
Abe's moderate stance meant he didn't lose any public support.
In fact, it only made him more popular. Abe's moderate stance meant he didn't lose any public support.
In fact, it only made him more popular.
Over the next six years, he earned the reputation of Honest Abe and was seen as a politician
who was both fair and reasonable.
It served him well. In 1840, the 31-year-old was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives for a fourth
consecutive term.
He also was part of a relatively new political party known as the Whigs.
The Whigs were seen as the party of education and order.
One of the issues they cared most about was the temperance movement to outlaw alcohol,
but their main focus was taking down the current President of the United States, Andrew Jackson.
They viewed him as an extension of the British monarchy and called him King Andrew.
Abe had been a loyal member of the Whig party since its founding in 1834.
Over the years, he'd worked his way up the ranks alongside other movers and shakers.
That was how he met Ninian Edwards, whose family was a big deal among Illinois Whigs.
He and Abe worked closely together to advance the party's cause.
Through that partnership, Abe became acquainted with Ninian's sister-in-law, 22-year-old
Mary Todd.
Mary was educated and cultured and not afraid to share her opinion.
She was everything Abe wanted in a woman.
But wooing her wouldn't be easy, because Mary and Abe came from very different worlds.
Mary was a member of the upper class.
Her father was a wealthy businessman and slave owner, and while Abe was a successful politician, he was, and always
would be, middle class at best.
None of that bothered Mary, though.
They dated for a while, but the whole time, Mary's sister was in her ear, telling her
she should find someone wealthier.
Finally, after a few months, Mary gave in and ended things with Abe.
For about a year, they tried to avoid one another, but their connection was undeniable.
Sometime in the early 1840s, they got back together, this time in secret, which meant
a lot of sneaking around.
Although Mary lived with her sister 70 miles away in Springfield, she managed to keep the
relationship under wraps.
Until the day she and Abe got married, on November 4th, 1842.
Mary was 24 and Abe was 33.
And although he couldn't provide the life of luxury she was accustomed to, the pair
were very happy together.
The next year they welcomed their first child, a son who they named Robert Todd.
The family rented a small house while Abe saved up to get them something nicer, and
in 1844 he bought their first and only
home in Springfield.
With his personal life going so well, Abe took another major step in his political career.
Illinois had seven congressional districts, but the Whig Party only stood a chance in
one of them.
So the party's leaders agreed to take turns running for the seat, and in
1846 Abe got his shot. He won his election pretty easily and began a two-year term in
the US House of Representatives. It was his first experience on the national stage, and
he took the opportunity to absorb as much as he could, including how political parties
interacted.
For example, as a member of the opposition party, he wasn't expected to support the
Mexican-American war.
However, a lot of people back in Illinois were in favor of the conflict.
So Abe's vote against it in 1847 didn't go over very well with
his constituents and suddenly he found himself in the hot seat with voters. With his popularity
waning, Abe decided it was time to take a break from politics. In 1849 he switched gears
and focused on his family and law career instead.
He spent the next five years becoming one of the most prominent lawyers in the state
of Illinois.
And while Abe wasn't actively participating in politics, he was still paying attention,
especially when the federal government passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854.
Under this act, these two new territories could choose for themselves if they wanted
to allow slavery.
It opened the door to one of Abe's greatest fears, the unchecked spread of the practice,
and the issue hit very close to home.
The law had been proposed by one of the two U.S. senators from Illinois, Stephen Douglas. Abe was
ashamed that someone representing his state would champion such an awful policy. But on the bright side, that meant Abe could do something to fight back. He could
unseat Douglas, who was up for re-election.
Abe got a harsh dose of reality when he failed to win his campaign, and it only got worse
when the Whig Party started to unravel. But Abe wasn't giving up just yet. He worked with other anti-slavery
colleagues to form the Illinois chapter of the Republican Party, which was focused on
many of the same issues as the Whigs had been. And while the faction was new, its key players
weren't. They quickly gained influence, even securing the governorship in 1856. But even then,
they didn't have enough power to help Abe when he went up against Stephen Douglas for a second
time in 1858. Although Abe lost the Senate seat once again, he did prove himself to his colleagues. Over the course of his year-long campaign, Abe had debated Douglas seven times.
It was clear to his Republican cohorts that Abe was an excellent public speaker and a
formidable opponent.
So despite two failed Senate runs, Abe Lincoln won the Republican Party's nomination for
president in 1860.
Although Abe was clear he had no intention of interfering with slavery where it already existed,
he still managed to win the majority of northern states. That was enough for a decisive victory.
That was enough for a decisive victory. In November 1860, 51-year-old Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th President of the United
States.
But it wouldn't be smooth sailing.
Because just a few months later, the country would be in a bitter war over slavery, and Abe would find himself in the
line of fire.
In November 1860, 51-year-old Abraham Lincoln became the 16th President of the United States.
He and his family moved from their comfortable, if modest, home in Springfield, Illinois to
the White House.
By then, Abe and his wife Mary had three sons, 17-year-old Robert, 10-year-old Willie, and
7-year-old Tad.
But the Lincolns didn't have much time to celebrate.
When Abe was inaugurated in March 1861, the issue of slavery was at a fever pitch.
Just before he took office, seven southern states had voted to separate themselves from
the United States.
They declared themselves the Confederate States of America,
drafted a constitution, and chose their own president, Jefferson Davis. Within a month,
four more states joined them, and that's when the fighting began. By April 12, 1861,
By April 12, 1861, barely a month after Abe took office, the Civil War was officially underway.
In total, eleven southern states eventually formed the Confederacy dedicated to advancing
the right for states to have more power, including the right to preserve slavery.
The North became known as the Union.
Although there were many abolitionists in their midst, the Union's goal wasn't to
eradicate slavery, it was to prevent it from expanding into new territories and states.
Despite his personal feelings, Abe didn't want to force the South to get rid of the
practice.
For him, the Civil War wasn't about emancipation.
He was simply fighting to preserve the integrity of the United States.
For the next year, the Union fought tooth and nail to gain the upper hand.
It came at a high cost. Thousands of young
men were losing their lives, and all that death and destruction hit closer to home for
the Lincolns in 1862. Early that year, Abe and Mary's youngest sons, Willie and Tad,
came down with what was likely typhoid fever.
They were both bedridden, but 11-year-old Willie never recovered.
He died in February of 1862.
Abe and Mary Todd were devastated.
The loss motivated Abe to work even harder to end the war.
For the first time, he truly felt the pain of losing a child.
With so many parents around the nation facing the same grief, Abe desperately searched for
a way to end the suffering. But it soon became apparent that he couldn't end the war without
answering the question of slavery.
A began to reconsider his stance on emancipation. He still didn't believe the Constitution gave him the right, even as president,
to free all enslaved people in the South.
However, the war provided him with an unexpected loophole.
As commander-in-chief of the military, he was allowed to seize enemy property, including
enslaved people.
Once all of those people were technically his, he could then go ahead and free them
through a process called national emancipation.
But Abe hoped that he wouldn't have to go through with it.
He thought that just the threat of national emancipation would be enough for the Confederacy
to surrender and rejoin the Union.
He brought the idea to his cabinet in the summer of 1862. Abe's Secretary of State, William Seward,
suggested he wait for a major victory before putting his plan into action. That chance came
after the Battle of Antietam in Maryland in September of 1862. With a death toll in the
thousands, it was the war's bloodiest single-day conflict.
And although the Union lost more soldiers, Abe considered it a strategic victory.
He used the opportunity to make his announcement.
If the Confederacy didn't disband and rejoin the Union by the end of the year, all enslaved individuals living
there would be considered free. December 31st came and went and still the
Confederates kept fighting. If they thought A was bluffing, they were in for a
rude awakening. On the first day of 1863, President Lincoln signed the official
Emancipation Proclamation, effectively ending slavery in the United States forever.
However, not everyone in the Union was supportive of the proclamation, not only because there were
still people there who supported slavery, but because they saw it as another roadblock
to ending the war.
How would they reunite with a confederacy now?
With another presidential election coming up the following year, Abe's advisors started
to worry he might not win.
To try and help his chances, they brought on a new running mate, Andrew Johnson.
He was a Democratic senator from Tennessee, which had seceded along with much of the South.
And while Johnson was pro-slavery, he wasn't pro-Confederacy, so he had stayed with the Union and was the
only Southern Senator still in Congress.
Having Johnson on his ticket was helpful, but it wasn't what put Lincoln's campaign
over the edge.
That came thanks to the slew of military victories the Union racked up just before the November
1864 election.
It finally felt like they were making progress, and the momentum led to a landslide Electoral
College victory for Abe.
In March 1865, 56-year-old Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as President of the United States for the second time, and it seemed like he'd finally end the fighting once and for all.
After a grueling winter and supply chain issues, southern morale was at an all-time low.
By April of that year, the tide had turned heavily in the Union's favor.
Then on April 9th, Confederate General Robert
E. Lee surrendered his troops in Richmond, Virginia. There were a few battles still going on,
but many Americans were relieved that the fighting was almost at an end. Finally, they could look
forward to a future when the darkness of war and slavery were behind them. No one
was more eager for that future than President Lincoln.
Abe woke up on the morning of April 14, 1865, five days after the Confederacy surrendered,
feeling more hopeful than he had in years. During breakfast, Mary reminded him of their plans to go to Ford's Theatre that evening.
They'd made a point to go see a play there once a week.
It was a distraction from the heaviness of daily life.
Abe was looking forward to it, but first he had work to do.
Meetings, meetings, and more meetings.
There was a lot to figure out regarding the end of the war.
It was up to President Lincoln and his cabinet to decide what reconciliation would look like,
who would be held responsible, and how was the biggest question on everyone's minds.
For his part, Abe was done with bloodshed. He
wasn't interested in punishing the southern states and their leaders any more than they'd
already been. He was focused on working with them. But there was only so much that could be
accomplished in one day. So, Abe took a rare break in the early evening
to join Mary on her carriage ride around Washington, D.C.
It was liberating to get a few minutes to themselves to imagine life after the war.
They got back just in time to get ready for the theater.
They were still looking for guests to go with them, and the honor went to Major
Henry Rathbone and his fiancee. He was a survivor of the Battle of Antietam and regarded as
a hero.
Abe and Mary Todd were thrilled to have the Major and his fiancee join them for the evening,
but by the time everything was settled, the group was running late.
When the president and his party arrived at Ford's theater, the play had already begun.
The group had no chance of getting to their seats without causing a stir.
The presidential box was practically above the stage, as much on display as the actors
themselves.
So when Abe was spotted entering, the crowd burst into applause.
After the brief interruption, the show carried on.
The Night's Entertainment was a three-act play called Our American Cousin.
It was a comedy about a bumbling American trying to navigate life in the English aristocracy.
As a former country boy himself, Abe got a kick out of the humor.
He and Mary cozied up to one another as they enjoyed their evening.
They held hands and sat closer together as the play went on.
By the third act, Mary joked that they must be scandalizing Major Rathbone's fiancé.
Abe smiled and assured her, quote,
she won't think anything of it.
Minutes later, at around 10.15 p.m.,
the main character delivered the biggest punchline
of the whole show.
As expected, the theater filled with an uproar of laughter.
At that exact moment, a man entered the President's
box. Using a length of wood he'd taken from a music stand, he wedged the door closed.
Then he pointed a single-shot derringer pistol at the back of Abraham Lincoln's head and
pulled the trigger. Smoke filled the box. When it cleared, Major Rathbone saw a man standing behind the President's slumped
body and sprang into action.
The assassin dropped his gun and brandished a large dagger.
He swung at Major Rathbone, cutting his arm to the bone, before leaping from the box onto
the stage below.
The audience cried out in shock. They still
didn't know what had happened to the president, but many recognized the man on stage as the
Shakespearean actor John Wilkes Booth. He wasn't in the show that evening, but he'd performed at
Ford's Theatre many times before. Thrusting the bloody dagger into the air,
he yelled, Seek Semper Tyrannus. The Latin phrase translates to, thus always to tyrants,
and is often used to suggest that tyrannical leaders will eventually be overthrown. After
shouting at the audience, Booth disappeared behind the curtains.
As Booth fled into the night, Abe lay unconscious and bleeding.
Mary wailed, pleading for someone to help them.
When the rest of the audience realized the President had been shot, the theater erupted
into chaos. But even then, no one knew the full truth
that Abraham Lincoln wasn't the only target that night.
In reality, Booth's attack was just one part
of a much larger conspiracy.
The goal?
To plunge the Union into chaos
and change the course of history.
Forever.
Thanks so much for listening. I'm Carter Roy and this is Murder True Crime Stories.
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