Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 622: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Part II - Death Wish
Fri, 6 Jun 2025
The boys return to the story of the first presidential assassination, picking back up with John Wilkes Boothe in the final weeks leading up to the shooting, the possibly scandalous motivations behind the killing, and the story of how his plan evolved from kidnapping to straight up murder. For Live Shows, Merch, and More Visit: www.LastPodcastOnTheLeft.comKevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Last Podcast on the Left ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus.
Chapter 1: What led to John Wilkes Booth's assassination plot?
Is this our best episode?
I just can't handle that this doctor's name is... He conspired to kill the greatest president of all time. Couldn't care less. He's like, his name's Poopy.
His name's Poopy. He's a poo-poo man. He makes false... He makes a total false...
That's honestly what it deserves. What do you want from us?
Dr. Mudd was a slave owner and farmer who owned a plot of land in Bryant Town, Maryland. But when the state finally abolished slavery in 1864, Dr. Mudd did not have a business plan that included actually paying the people who worked his plantation. This is going to devastate my whole poo-poo base.
Practice is going to fuck up all of my fart science. This is all I need to do. My bean farm. Oh, no, all the precious beats.
Dr. Mudd's operation therefore collapsed, which gave him ample reason to help the Confederacy in any way he could. As for Booth's plot, Dr. Mudd's home was perfectly situated as a stopover between Washington, D.C. and the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, which meant that Booth could hide at Dr. Mudd's farm with Abraham Lincoln after kidnapping him.
President Lincoln, I just want to say I'm a huge fan. Could I interest you in some beans? No. I'd love to help you.
Do you have any Duke or shit, fuck, fart, shit, fuck, fart issues, President Lincoln? I'm a huge, again, people know I hate, I'm filled with hate.
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Chapter 6: What were the motivations behind Booth's actions?
No, I'm very Eastern Italian.
Shy Zone.
Now, while you may think that the plot to kidnap Lincoln was simply a plan that lost steam, Booth and his gang of Confederates did make a bona fide attempt at snatching the president in the spring of 1865. See, in those days, theaters would announce Lincoln's visits ahead of time because it increased ticket sales.
So when Booth got word that Lincoln had tickets to an upcoming performance at Ford's Theater, he finally set his kidnapping plan into motion. On March 15th, Booth gathered his team at Ford's Theater in anticipation of Lincoln's visit, where Booth familiarized them with both the layout of the theater and his grand plan itself.
On Booth's cue, one of the co-conspirators would rush the president's box and seize Lincoln, while Booth and another accomplished would follow him with handcuffs. Once properly seized, Lincoln would be lowered from the box to the stage with, I suppose, a rope. Or something similar.
Well, he has very long clothes on.
We'll strip him down to the very bottom of his nude.
And then we will tie those clothes together into a tether. And we'll throw him over. Yes, I can see it now. Like a giant chandelier. Lincoln will swing above the audience. No, that's the plot. He's the most righteous one. You throw him and I will catch him.
That was the plan.
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