Consider The Elephant
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 14:54:41
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Synopsis
In this podiobook: The common wisdom is that the men who have attacked American Presidents - Czolgosz, Guiteau, Fromme, Hinckley, Moore, Oswald, Zangara - were disgruntled, disturbed loners. That wisdom includes John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham
Episodes
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Chapter 37 - Consider The Elephant
20/08/2006 Duration: 11min-In this episode: Ned writes a letter to Wilkes. Finis.
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Chapter 36 - Consider The Elephant
19/08/2006 Duration: 23min-In this episode: Bainbridge, Ruggles and Jett
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Chapter 35 - Consider The Elephant
18/08/2006 Duration: 40min-In this episode: Escape: Thomas Jones gets Wilkes to the Potomac.
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Chapter 34 - Consider The Elephant
17/08/2006 Duration: 21min-In this episode: Escape: Dr. Samuel Mudd treats Wilkes' broken leg
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Chapter 32 - Consider The Elephant
15/08/2006 Duration: 23min-In this episode: Wilkes learns that Lincoln is going to the theater. He makes his preparations.
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Chapter 31 - Consider The Elephant
14/08/2006 Duration: 25min-In this episode: Wilkes urges the managers of two Washington theaters to invite Lincoln to a performance on Good Friday night. Surratt tells Wilkes he will have to escape to Canada.
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Chapter 30 - Consider The Elephant
13/08/2006 Duration: 27min-In this episode: As their cause becomes more desperate, the Confederates decide to kill Lincoln - but without involving Wilkes. Richmond falls, and Wilkes - despondent - disbands his crew. But the Rebel plan is thwarted, and Mary Surratt asks Wilkes to assassinate th
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Chapter 29 - Consider The Elephant
12/08/2006 Duration: 14min-In this episode: Now Richmond doesn't want Lincoln snatched. Wilkes is devastated.
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Chapter 28 - Consider The Elephant
11/08/2006 Duration: 29min-In this episode: Wilkes takes his crew to a play at Ford's Theater. An attempt to snatch the President on the Seventh Street Road fails when Lincoln doesn't show.
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Chapter 26 - Consider The Elephant
10/08/2006 Duration: 24min-In this episode: Wilkes and Surratt decide to snatch Lincoln at his inaugural ball, and Wilkes concocts a clever way to get into the event.
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Chapter 27 - Consider The Elephant
10/08/2006 Duration: 20min-In this episode: Wilkes goes to the inaugural ball but, out of concern for Lucy Hale, decides not to snatch the President there.
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Chapter 25 - Consider The Elephant
09/08/2006 Duration: 29min-In this episode: Wilkes gets a tour of John Ford's new theater in Washington, then meets a new conspirator - Lewis Thornton Powell.
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Chapter 24 - Consider The Elephant
08/08/2006 Duration: 20min-In this episode: Wilkes leaves an envelope with Asia in Philadelphia, then meets the conspirators in Washington.
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Chapter 23 - Consider The Elephant
07/08/2006 Duration: 22min-In this episode: While the three Booths perform "Julius Caesar", Confederates raid New York City, setting fires on Broadway in the hotels and theaters.
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Chapter 22 - Consider The Elephant
06/08/2006 Duration: 20min-In this episode: Lincoln is re-elected, and Wilkes meets Dr. Samuel Mudd.
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Chapter 21 - Consider The Elephant
05/08/2006 Duration: 23min-In this episode: Wilkes tells Asia of the Lincoln kidnap plot.Wilkes meets Patrick Martin in Montreal, makes his first contacts on the route he plans to use to take the kidnapped President to Richmond, and gets details on Lincoln's routine.
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Chapter 20 - Consider The Elephant
04/08/2006 Duration: 19min-In this episode: In Boston, Wilkes meets with Confederate agents from Canada and signs on to a plot to kidnap President Lincoln.
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Chapter 19 - Consider The Elephant
03/08/2006 Duration: 11min-In this episode: Lincoln is nominated for a second term, and Wilkes prospects for oil in Venango County, Pennsylvania.
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Chapter 18 - Consider The Elephant
02/08/2006 Duration: 10min-In this episode: Sick and exhausted, Wilkes tours Southern towns under Union occupation while General Grant cuts a swath through Virginia. In New Orleans, Wilkes hears the story of how his father died.