The Last Night of Abraham Lincoln | Part 2: Immortality | Free Documentary History

The Last Night of Abraham Lincoln - Part 2: Immortality | History Documentary
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Abraham Lincoln is the embodiment of the 'American Dream.' His vision of a free America united in peace and the abolishment of slavery made him an icon and a legend.
This two-part docu-drama tells the fascinating story of Abraham Lincoln and his murderer John Wilkes Booth. The assassin who planned the murder of the President like a Shakespearian plot. Lincoln is portrayed by Fritz Klein and Booth by Brian J. Merrick.
"Lincoln's Last Night" was shot at spectacular locations across the United States. A cast of more than 80 historical actors creates an authentic image of Lincoln's America. The Presidential office in the White House was staged at Centre Hill Mansion in Petersburg, Virginia. The Ford's Theater box reconstruction was one of many locations around Richmond, Virginia used extensively - with further scenes filmed at the historic Strasburg, Pennsylvania Railroad, and at the original and recently restored summer residence of the Lincoln Family in rural D.C.
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“It was my dream to put an end to slavery and to reunite America after this bloody war but the country is so full of hatred and my enemies are everywhere the country waits with baited breath as the hunt for my assassin draws to a close” Lincoln's wife Mary had been sitting beside him when Booth opened fire it's a traumatic experience from which she will never recover

[@catrinaciccone6945]

She was schizophrenic anyway!

[@jamesdeen3011]

I have been in anticipation for part 2. Thank you hard work and high standards in quality. Enjoyed.👍👍

[@janodjano5828]

So many inaccuracies , in this. You may want to consider other presentations of people who actually have written books .

[@frankschiro7387]

Rest in peace Abraham Lincoln you are a great president❤❤❤❤😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@markmeyer4664]

Great and excited to sit down and enjoy this one

[@joecombs7468]

This was very well done, even with so many errors of historical fact.

[@shaylawatson1244]

How is it well done with error facts 😂

[@jefferycampbell8724]

​@shaylawatson1244 guess he means it's a good fictional story based on a true events !?!?

[@matthewhedrichjr.5445]

@@shaylawatson12445:05 you mean this? Lincoln was actually unclothed when he died.

[@mr.sherlockholmes6130]

At 7:22a.m. April 15th we lost our greatest president . He passed away . Now he belongs to the Ages .

[@FairwayJack]

very good doc ...great man

[@jennifergongora9727]

My little boy loves Lincoln .He even took picture of the 5$ bill and has it has screen saver

[@-oiiio-3993]

Lincoln Cents of 2009 had four different designs for the reverse ('tails') side, each depicting a period of Lincoln's life.

[@WVgrl59]

"Abraham Lincoln believed that slavery was wrong morally and politically, and that it should not be allowed to spread further in the United States. He also said that he should not object if slavery gradually ended throughout the Union. Lincoln believed that the Constitution forbids interfering with slavery in states where it already exists, and that the general welfare does not require it." "However, he also said that he could save the Union without freeing any slaves, and that he would do so if he could."

[@freddyfurrah3789]

This makes me want to watch Gone With The Wind. I'm due to watch it again.

[@maryrhudy9250]

I have to correct you guys on one point. Mary Sarat was NOT the first woman executed in America. That dubious honour goes s far back as the girl Francis Silver in North Carolina in the 1830s. She was charged with murder after having killed her husband, Charlie Silver after he threatened to shoot their child if she didn't shut up. Under the laws at the time, she was not allowed to testify in her own defense and was unable to explain why she had killed Charlie. After local women, who were visiting her out of kindness, learned the whole story, word spread throughout the country, and numerous appeals were made on her behalf. The Governor was running for re-election at the time and refused to overturn the verdict so that she could have a new trial. Their child survived and was placed with Charlie Silver's family.

[@stuart-hs6bi]

Mary Surratt was the first woman executed by the federal government.

[@charlesmccormick585]

Mary, there are many errors in this film (artistic license I guess). There should have been a qualifier when Mary Surratt was mentioned as the first woman executed. Mary was the first woman executed by the Federal Government. It is nice to know others (such as yourself) have an interest in American history and care about accuracy. Best wishes.

[@jeffmilroy9345]

Realizing there are always two sides to every story - it seems pretty extreme to threaten to shoot one's own child. I am always beguiled by the fact a couple goes to the trouble to get married yet ends up on the rocks like that. And executing a woman with a child to rear? Something rotten in Denmark. We need more details please.

[@kevinwatkins6615]

The narrator said she was the first woman executed by the federal government.😊federal

[@janodjano5828]

There appears to be several inaccurate descriptions in this video. For example, he broke his right leg.

[@greghomestead8366]

Any history buffs that don't know... On KZbin search...... How many times was Abraham Lincoln buried?. Very interesting subject. I believe he was buried 17 times.

[@Gwaithmir]

Lincoln came close to being the victim of grave robbers.

[@susiek.johnson3923]

3

[@andybovee827]

Ill feel sorry for Lincoln just as Sherman apologizes for all the rape, pillage and murder on his march to Savanah, including the slaves he left to be recaptured.

[@Eric-qo8vv]

Ultimately no matter Booths reasons he cowardly shot another man in the back.

[@nunyabuziness8421]

No mention of the 60 ppl who died trying to find booth

[@freddyfurrah3789]

There was no mention that all the slaves in America were owned by DEMOCRATS.

[@David-DK-Kerr]

0:11 stopped watching after they got the flag wrong. 😑

[@WVgrl59]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 it is not the channels fault that the reenactment isn't using a period flag.😂😂😂😂

[@David-DK-Kerr]

Who said anything about the channel smart guy?

[@JohnTashjian-f4n]

​@@WVgrl59, they DID use the correct flag.

[@howardkoontz4735]

It is written that the cross burning is taken from the silent movie "Birth of a Nation."

[@CARLOBOYS]

All I remember after Booth was captured by the Union Army at Garret farm, he was summarily executed by the Yankees.

[@parttysetzer6247]

So that evey from Lincoln to present that ever president who was assigned so sad and what did approve nothing except sadness

[@FoodConnoisseurCook]

This feels a bit more sympathetic to the Southerners but I take it as good sign for being neutral. (Just see the last description of JwB immortality part)

[@mr-x7689]

Lincoln never wanted to end slavery, nor seamed to care especially much about it. It was just an side effect of the outcome of the war. The man even said it him selfe. Tho i dont remember the quote. It was somthing in the style of "If we could had won the war, whitout freeing a single slave it would still had been a good outcome" or somthing. But hey lets wash history, and its players as better than they realy where. After all, we live in a time where Osama Binladen is seen a s a hero in the west, and Terrorists in Palestine as victimes, even tho they are activly killing innocent civilians, and hiding in civilian infrastructure.

[@robertschumann7737]

Lincoln was never a senator. He came very near in 1855 but lost by 5 votes. That was when the state legislators elected the US Senators. Lincoln was a one term congressman. Its rather amazing that he became President. Before Trump Lincoln was probably the president with the least amount of experience. He got the job for his firebrand speeches condeming slavery. Lincoln was the first president to be successfully assassinated but not the first attempt. Andrew Jackson very nearly was assinated. The assassin came up to him with his pistol out and click misfire so he pulled out his second pistol click misfire. Then Jackson proceeded to beat him senseless with his walking stick. Another mistake you made was Lincoln never wanted equal rights for all. He completely and totally believed in the superiority of whites. He considered blacks to be 3/4 of a white man and the Chinese to be 1/2. I think you need to go all the way to somone like Woodrow Wilson to get a president who saw all men as equal. Even though its written very plainly by our founding fathers. At the time blacks were not seen as men though. They were property to almost all of the founding fathers sans Jefferson and probably Franklin.

[@-oiiio-3993]

Both Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin were most assuredly slaveowners as is well documented.

[@Mindfultranslations]

Booth was an evil genius… he planned and timed the murder to the second … knowing the lines of the play. What the audience reaction is , sound effects. Only thing that he didn’t anticipate was his faulty leap onto the stage . What baffles me is why in the presidential box and during the play ? Booth knew the theater well . He could’ve shot during entrance, exit , chariot ride to from the theater. Perhaps even a better escape afterward. Never during any stage of my public schooling did I hear of the wider conspiracy: vp, secretaries targeted etc . Neither the hanging of other conspirators. Only afterwards and via media outlets I learned of this. Ie whats secrets are there regarding jfk mlk rfk ??? And Malcolm too !

[@brian8928]

I like this documentary to some extent but there is one part I really got confused about where President Lincoln was laying in the bed and his wife came in. I’m sure she didn’t call him Mr. Lincoln. Their entire married life.😆

[@destry232]

This doc was full of inaccuracies.

[@freddyfurrah3789]

I'm sure

[@matthewhedrichjr.5445]

Yes like with Lincoln being in a nightshirt when in fact his doctors stripped him of his clothes to be checked for other additional wounds and bring his body temperature up by covering him with mustard plasters. Ami correct?

[@darrellterry9691]

As a white man while respecting this video and our greatest leader this land isn't ours we took it from the American Indian .

[@TheDronzDr]

Ain’t that the truth

[@jefflincoln700]

Which natives, which tribe,what area ,what date?

[@franky528]

It’s a great place to live though!..Isn’t it.

[@franky528]

If America didn’t accomplish so much they’d be know one to blame!

[@ethelhoose1196]

Yes it was

[@davidkillen2207]

The war wasn’t over slavery…

[@TheMactone]

The Union Army killing John Wilkes Booth is kind of the equivalent of Seal Team 6 taking out Bin Laden 😂

[@kevinwatkins6615]

Lol

[@TheDronzDr]

Your right

[@skate103]

Ooh rah🇺🇲

[@davidb2206]

No, because it was specifically against the mission order to shoot Booth. It WAS the mission order for Bin Laden.

[@ChrisJensen-se9rj]

Different groups fought for whatever reason they felt was worth it. Slavery States rights of succession Tariffs For profits. But it all culminated in a better America

[@freddyfurrah3789]

STOPPING ABORTION

[@CaptoftheHaggister]

NY was always as racist as the south. Even during the war. Especially the group known as The Know Nothings and their many follows. And their racism wasn't just reserved for the blacks. They hated any one that wasn't white English decent that wasn't born in America by a fighting family that fought for their independence. For the rest of the New Yorkers The blacks and the newly arrived Irish from the potato famine got the worst but other groups like the Italians and gypsies also received much hatred.

[@rahmit47]

Poor speaker narrating .

[@nanouli6511]

Pious cause rubbish

[@davidkillen2207]

The war wasn’t over slavery

[@meetyourfate]

So what it was about then? State's rights!? To own slaves? 🌚☻🌝

[@J0LL1B33]

It was over slavery, more specifically the moral issue of it.

[@jeffmilroy9345]

It was complicated but primarily over the perceived threat of freeing the slaves without compensating slave owners for the economic loss. "Taking" without compensation was and is supposed to be unconstitutional. A large portion of the economy of the south was built around slavery. Fortunes rode on the outcome of Lincoln's election. The abolitionists should have backed compensation for both slave; and, slave holder to properly fix the problem when they had the chance - but it would have been a very tough political sell. Slavery should have been addressed at the time the constitution was ratified. Tons of open land needed to be settled for decades to come and could have been given to former slaves. Freeing just one slave cost someone about $1000-$2000 back then. (estimated value of a slave in present day money is about $36,000). Walk up to most citizens today and tell them you are taking $36,000 out of their hide. I am guessing you will have a big fight on your hands.

[@gmaxion2001]

Slavery has been abolished already. How was it not over?

[@randallanthony1794]

@@meetyourfatethe north was called the northern aggressor.it was about taking over industry in the south.this was direct competition for northern power.it was over money.the immorality of slaver was ending already even Andrew johnson said this he was going to phase it out.