4k walk around Ford's Theatre ~ the site of Abraham Lincoln's assassination 

Thank you. I appreciate you watching and glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks. Yeah, the whole theater I always pictured as being much bigger as a kid.

Most buildings back then were a lot smaller than today's buildings

I'm glad you liked it. I'm traveling the world and trying to take video of what people would enjoy seeing.

Yes, John Wilkes Booth knew that and he was waiting for the funniest line of the play when he knew the audience would be laughing and it would muffle the shot. That line was: "Don't know the manners of good society... eh? I know enough to turn you inside out old gal, you sockdologizing old mantrap!" It was spoken by Harry Hawk and were the last words Lincoln ever heard. The laughter and applause muffled the shot as Booth hoped. When he came tumbling out of the box people thought it was part of the production until they heard Mary Lincoln screaming.

@@rupertthepisceanshark603 Hey thanks that's interesting, I never knew that. There had to been a lot of laughter at the time to have muffled out that explosive shot, those little guns are so loud it will have your hearing ringing for several seconds.

Thanks. Glad you liked it.

Because that is how it looked the night Lincoln attended. When John T. Ford heard the president would be attending April 14 he put up American flag buntings to hang from the box and put up a portrait of George Washington since there was no official presidential seal in 1865 yet. George Washington was really seen as a symbol of the country and unity at that time.

The soldier who was suppose to be guarding Lincoln was having a drink at the bar. I do believe the secret service was started after this tragedy.

As well as numerous famous people's homes and other historical buildings.

Yeah I saw it I couldn't believe it was still in pretty good shape despite being 157 years old

Can't go into the room because it's not the actual chair? I don't understand the reasoning.

Not anymore fuck the government

Thank you for watching.

I was there many ,many years ago,beautiful place ,thank you for refreshing my visit

@@francamporeale4561 I’m sure it was actually a good time to visit the places that were open. Didn’t have all the crowds. Thx again!

Thanks

I know he had a knife with him as well. But who knows

@@Gregthegreatone he had a tin whistle too. There are 3 extant shorthand versions of the military trial, organized incompletely (eg1 recording testimony to a question that is itself unrecorded and (eg2) daily records not always chronologically ordered, in another) my point here is that there was testimony about hearing whistle(s) out in the street at around 10:00 PM this (to me) is a nearly crystal clear indicator of a manged scenario (eg3 entry to the presidential booth because the Preatorian guard went AWOL to the bar next door for stiff drink) one earmark of a clandestine operation: c/f1 The Secret Service were hungover from the night before drinking Everclear until 4:30 AM 11/22/1963. The barn in Virginia may have been the place he was cornered, but someone needs to come up with a much more compelling argument why he wasn't headed to CSA in Montreal (not CSA in VA) back to the department that gave him the money for the assassination in the first place. And then there's the matter of the French Woman (Ou la la, la femme fatale Montreal) and no clear accounting for the whereabouts of jwb's ostentatious diamond stick pin; not seen in his possession since the time he scratched a secret message onto a windows pane (sometime in 1862) addressed to his hotel maid which she promptly reported to the War Department/Stanton/Pinkerton/Conger, something about poisoning AL which of course renders the details of the original kipnap plot just a "cover story" for the likes of Spangler, doh! But not for Lewis Payne (plus 4 or 5 other aliases) at one time a rider with John Singleton Mosby's Partisans who rather than surrender, dissolved his unit in the field 7 days after the assassination. There's a lot more but this is to the point.

“So other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?”

Even his secretary is Mrs.Kennedy advise him not to go to Ford Theater and same thing almost 100 years later in 1963 JFK secretary Mrs.Evelyn Lincoln advised him not go to Texas and why those two men's didn't want to listen to their secretary and follow their advice and the two President closest advisor was concerned about there would be danger in some places that is not safe.

@@andrebond678 They were both screwing their secretaries so they dismissed it as hysteria.

That's incredible. What a. great family history.

It is one of the very few guns in the world that's "priceless." The reason the gun is the most expensive is because of the massive historical significance and is not for sale and never will be.

I was trying to figure out where that was coming from! When I figured it was coming from that restaurant-in the middle of the day-I was like "who tf is wanting to eat there?" Looks like it's 10am or something. It's probably not, but FFS...

I was at that location this past weekend and the Hard Rock Cafe, the source of the noise, is terrible. It seems they should not be able to blare music like that. It was annoying.

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It was Grant's wife, Julia, who didn't like Mrs. Lincoln.

Grim in its emblem of what has happened to the country. What happened at Ford's Theater was an outrage to all; The Hard Rock Cafe is an outrage.

Crazy how lax they were towards guarding presidents back then. Even JFK having the top down in the car seems crazy.

i agree . @@Gregthegreatone

Yes, I would say north, northeast.

Yeah

Yeah. I learned that about 2 or 3 years ago, and I was very disappointed. They destroyed the stage and seating back in the late 1800s and basically used the building as some sort of warehouse for federal records. There's even a picture from the 1960s, showing the inside of the building while it was being restored; you can see the inside of the building completely gutted, with basically just the oriignal 4 outside walls left standing. It's just like what happened to the White House, which was completely gutted and rebuilt in the 1940s and 50s.

That is true. I've often thought of that in modern sports stadiums too. These super rich people sit in the luxury boxes. I'd rather sit in the front row.

Makes no sense. Should have always been on display. Terrible things in history are still history.

Unfortunately not.

It actually is. It's also a national historical site so it's part of the park service as well.

What is the difference between the replica on display and the real thing ? Would be real tempting for someone to want to steal the real deal, I would think .

Zero to do with "Liberal Logic".

Look above in the heading. I already corrected myself when I heard the video.

@@Gregthegreatone Okay, i didn't see that part!

Better yet. Create the secret service yourself.

@@Gregthegreatone I think they were in fact created around Lincoln's time or shortly after...but their original and still main duty is to go after counterfeiters. The whole protecting the President thing didn't come until sadly after McKinley was hot in 1901.

@@JohnSmith-zw8vp They were created just shy of 3 months after his death. But yes, they should have been created earlier and as we know them now. Would have been easy to stop if everyone was frisked including in the back ways.

And if you ever meet Mrs. Lincoln ask..."So...other than THAT , how was the play ?"

Stay home on the 14th!!

Huh? Dude, you've got too much spare time on your hands.

Like Patsy Kline?

Aye, so was Leon Czolgosz. Pfft.

OMG! Now you’re saying he was transgender? The BLT community has really run amok. That’s going too far!

No he wasn't. He was the assassin. But, contrary to popular belief he wasn't killed in Garrett's Barn in Virginia. During his escape after the assassination he made his way out of Washington using a bridge that crossed over the Potomac & a password given to him by a sympathetic army captain that would allow him to pass through the barricade on the side of the bridge going out of Washington. After he had his leg set by Dr Mudd he eventually stowed away in the back of a wagon which was eventually approached by Confederate sympathizers informing the drivers of the wagon that the union troops were closed behind so they took the opportunity to hustle Booth into the woods, later on he realized that he dropped some important papers that contained personally identifiable information showing that the papers belong to booth and the man that went back to retrieve them was the one that was shot at Garrett's Barn, David Harold even said that Booth wasn't in there. Booth on the othergand eventually made it to Oklahoma where he eventually met Finess Bates, Kathy Bates grandfather, Mr Bates was an attorney at the time and came to know Booth as a man by the name of John Saint Helen, St Helen eventually contracted some sort of a fever or sickness of some sort and believing he was dying confessed that he was the assassin of President Lincoln to Mr. Bates, who eventually turned around and wrote a book about it. Booth eventually became despondent and took his own life in an Oklahoma boarding house by drinking a glass of wine laced with stricnine. Here's the other clincher Booth had brown hair the man in Booths grave had red hair. Just like they're doing now the government wanted to passify the American public so they passed off the ginger as being booth. The government has been lying to people probably for longer than any of us have been alive. You just have to possess the ability to read between the lines not everything is so black and white. Boost assassination was the first political assassination cover up in the United States, the second being Huey Long of Louisiana aka "The Kingfish"

What are you suggesting?

@@kromesd769 Nothing like the arts!

I disagree.The pluses and minuses are great on both sides of the debate,but the fact remains that it is an object that is a valid piece of history..and ignoring it's existence doesn't change facts..any more than denying the existence of the gas chambers sugar coats the Holocaust.Our children have every right to know facts,especially the ugliest and most vile ones,and the right to have guidance that teaches why things in this world are inherently wrong and crimes against us all.Tey to keep in mind that guns don't choose to shoot someone all by themselves ...and that a single sheet of notebook paper has the capability of cutting someone's throat.

It's also been over 150 years since the crime. Have a think about infamous crimes from centuries prior to the 19th and what lies in museums around the world that you don't give a second thought to because of how completely removed from the events your time is from that time. Nobody is or has attempted to put something like the guns from Columbine on display. Further, the crime wasn't directed at historically significant people. In the future, it may determined that the crime represented some sort of turning point in history, but we'll be dead. There will be significant time removed in-between for there to be distance from the event.