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{\an8}Thank you. Mmm.
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[people chattering, laughing]
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- Evening.
- Oh, excuse me.
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Are you Miss Keckley?
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Yes.
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I'm Edwin Stanton.
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Oh. President Lincoln speaks
very highly of you.
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Oh, thank you.
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He's just upstairs. Willie has taken ill.
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- Should I come back at another time?
- Oh, no.
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Actually, Mr. Lincoln appreciates visitors
even more
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when his children are not well.
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If I should cancel my party
and tell my guests to go home, I will.
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Please tell me, is this grave?
I need to know.
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Go enjoy your party, Mrs. Lincoln.
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[sighs]
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- Mm-hmm.
- Mm-hmm.
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[exhales deeply] Come down.
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I will.
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As soon as he's sleeping soundly, hmm.
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Everything should be better by tomorrow.
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Thank you, Doctor. Stay for the dancing?
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Now, I think it best
we postpone the dancing for tonight.
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Not the whole party, but just the dancing.
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Do you say that
because of Willie's condition
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- or because of the noise?
- 'Cause of the noise.
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- We just let him sleep.
- Of course. Of course.
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You've worked so hard on this renovation.
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Go and enjoy yourself.
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I'm so used to expecting the worst.
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- [Abraham chuckles]
- I'll-- I'll pray for the best.
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[breathes heavily]
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You've never looked lovelier.
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Is it days or weeks, Doctor?
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Days.
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[swallows, smacks lips]
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And there's nothing that we can do
to cure him?
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Nothing, uh, we can send for--
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[stammers] Do anything for him?
Anything that you can think of?
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You keep him comfortable.
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I, uh, apologize for not being truthful
to your wife just now.
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But, uh, I could see she couldn't hear it.
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That's all right.
One-- One more night of peace.
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Thank you, Doc.
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The doctor said Willie would be
okay by the morning.
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- [chuckling]
- That's wonderful.
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Does he still need these?
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Oh, Abe would appreciate that.
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May I help you with those?
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Oh. Thank you.
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[Stanton clears throat]
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The president really needs a right hand
to push emancipation through.
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Everyone deserves freedom, Mr. Stanton.
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"Pip, dear old chap,
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life is made up
of ever so many partings welded together."
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- Edwin Stanton for you.
- [Abraham] Right. Thank you.
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- Mr. President.
- Come in.
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I have these for you.
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Edwin, that's very kind of you. Thank you.
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And I hoped that he would follow
in my footsteps in the law. But now...
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- [Willie] Pa? I'm parched.
- [Abraham] Mm-hmm.
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Hang on.
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Here. Here.
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[Abraham shushing]
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[sipping]
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Yeah. Mama will be in shortly.
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Huh? Yeah. [shushes] You rest, you rest.
You rest and you dream.
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All right. All right.
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Here.
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Can you fetch back
Mrs. Lincoln for me? Thank you.
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So you've decided to be
my war secretary, my Mars?
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I have, Mr. President.
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All right. Well, this kind of work,
it isn't glamorous.
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And glory is no guarantee. [mumbles]
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I used to split rails
to support my family.
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Brutal, but it gave you
a lot of time to think.
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Rail-tie by rail-tie. Swing by swing.
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[chuckles] Hours add up,
and suddenly you've paved a way.
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[sighs]
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Sir, I am built for work.
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All right, where would you start?
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By taking control
of the nation's telegraph system.
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Transfer central communications
to the War Department.
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Direct lines to generals on the front,
to newspapers.
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Improve morale with positive stories
in the press.
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Morale builds courage,
courage wins battles.
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I believe Grant and our Union men
can prevail with the right support.
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So your big plan is telegrams?
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[chuckles]
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- Um, yes, sir.
- [Abraham] Mmm.
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For starters.
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Can you begin tomorrow, Mars?
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- Yes, sir.
- All right.
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[paper boy 1] Trial of the century
begins today!
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{\an8}- Conspirators on trial!
- [paper boy 2] Papers! Get your paper.
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{\an8}[paper boy 1] Trial of the century
begins today!
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- [reporter 1] Mr. Secretary!
- [reporter 2] Secretary, a word, please.
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- [reporter 1] Mr. Secretary!
- [reporter 3] Mr. Secretary!
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[reporter 1] Does the conspirators' trial
have any significance without Booth?
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Uh, this trial will reveal a conspiracy
more significant and more important
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than any one individual.
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I say this to you: It is my sincere hope
that once justice has been served,
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we as a nation can unite to complete
the work begun
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by President Abraham Lincoln
before he was cruelly cut down.
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{\an8}[Holt] With the intent
to subvert the Constitution
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and overthrow the government
of the United States
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in the murder
of President Abraham Lincoln,
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and of the attempted murder
of Vice President Andrew Johnson
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and Secretary of State William Seward...
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we accuse Dr. Samuel Mudd,
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Lewis Powell, Edward Spangler,
George Atzerodt,
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Mary Surratt and David Herold
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of confederating in a conspiracy
against the United States,
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along with John Wilkes Booth.
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A conspiracy designed to
dismember our government
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and the persons of its chief officers,
president, vice president,
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secretary of state,
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thereby subverting the Constitution
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and the laws
of the United States of America.
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We also accuse and name in this conspiracy
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John Surratt Jr., George N. Sanders...
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and Jefferson Davis.
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- [clamoring]
- [gavel banging]
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[chief judge] Adjourned until tomorrow.
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{\an8}[Stanton] I know you had my friend killed.
Admit it.
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[Davis] I have not repented.
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I would conduct my presidency
the same way all over again.
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The delusion, Secretary,
that this trial will prove something.
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That the Confederacy's dead.
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We will win the White House
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and fly the American flag.
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And that flag will represent
the Confederacy.
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I believe this country
is better than that.
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My cause lives and breathes,
and always will.
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[Stanton] We're out of time.
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Did your agent collect evidence on Davis?
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Conover's in town,
but his cover's been blown.
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Sanders and the Montreal CSS know
that he works for me.
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The good news is
Conover's been two-timing us,
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working in intelligence for the CSS.
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Good news? How is that good news?
Bad news upon worse, surely.
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It's good news
because now Conover wants to tell us
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what he couldn't tell us before.
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[Holt] You're saying that the man
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who could theoretically have
stopped the conspirators
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is now our best bet to convict them.
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Would we ever have listened to him?
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What is he saying he has?
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He claims to have been in Montreal
and overheard talk
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about the events leading up to April 14th.
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He also claims to be in possession
of a document
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that the CSS refers to
as "the pet letter."
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Pet?
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Meaning what?
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Davis's nickname for Booth.
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Jefferson Davis called John Wilkes Booth
his pet?
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His pet.
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[Stanton] Conover is our star witness.
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Let's get him in here.
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[Holt] You may step down, Miss Simms.
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Thank you so much and et cetera.
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But now the defense will do anything
for an advantage.
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It will suggest you're stupid or a liar,
or both.
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If I could survive the whip,
I can survive words.
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What education do you have?
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I can read.
Though I-- I did-- didn't attend school.
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Oh. [breathes deeply]
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You've never attended school?
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How do you expect us to believe
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that you understand the difference
between fact and fiction
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when you have
no formal education whatsoever?
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- Sir, I-- I wasn't able to atten--
- No further questions, Your Honor.
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Hope I get to say more than that.
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They may not let you.
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Powell was wearing that brown hat
bent down over one eye...
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Same way he's looking at me now.
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[Ewing] How old are you?
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I guess I'm between 29 and 30.
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You don't know your age exactly?
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People like me who were born into slavery
weren't given a birthday.
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But I do know the assassination attempt
on my employer's life was planned.
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Powell tricked me
by bringing a pharmacy box.
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Thank goodness Secretary Seward survived.
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But I'm certain
Powell meant to murder him.
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[audience murmuring]
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[Peanuts] Mr. Spangler told me
to watch the horse.
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To have it ready outside the theater.
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I told him I had to sell my goods.
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He say I had no choice.
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Don't you always have a choice,
Mr. Burroughs?
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[Peanuts] In my experience,
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when certain men say,
"You got to," like that--
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It was a threat.
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And you are saying
that Mr. Spangler protected Booth's horse
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and opened the door for him?
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[Peanuts] On the Bible...
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I swear it's true.
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I'm the assistant secretary of war
and a telegraphic expert.
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Could you tell us the purpose
of this instrument?
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Which is exhibit number 59, Your Honors.
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It's a cipher key. It breaks code.
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Where did you acquire this cipher key?
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The office of Mr. Benjamin.
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He's the Confederate secretary of state
at Richmond.
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Thank you.
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And now, if you would,
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cipher fragment exhibit number seven,
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which is said to have been found
in the hotel room of John Wilkes Booth.
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And compare it, please,
to the other cipher.
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They're the same.
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I've examined and compared them.
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You have no doubts
as to their being the same?
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I'm the national expert.
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Why would one of the objects
in Booth's hotel room be Confederate code?
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Only the accused can answer that.
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No further questions.
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[Ewing] We know Booth is an actor.
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Couldn't exhibit number seven
be a prop from a play?
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We know his pistol wasn't a prop.
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[audience grumbling, murmuring]
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[gavel bangs]
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[judge] Order.
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My name is Jeremiah Dyer.
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I'm a pastor in Bryantown.
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I've known Sam Mudd from our early youth.
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Do you know his reputation?
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Mudd's reputation is exemplary, I'd say.
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State to the court Dr. Mudd's treatment
of his household. Servants or slaves.
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They didn't work a great deal.
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- [Ewing] His servants are considered lazy?
- That's the talk.
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- [clears throat]
- [Ewing] When you were a plowman
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on Dr. Mudd's farm, how did he treat you?
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First-rate.
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And how long have you known Mary Simms?
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Since she was a small girl.
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We were good friends.
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But when she came to be grown,
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all the servants in the neighborhood
learned not to trust her.
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She lies. A lot.
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And on the other hand,
Dr. Mudd delivers babies and saves lives.
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White and colored lives.
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He's a good man.
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[chattering]
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I don't know if I'm enough, sir.
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[mumbles] Mary, listen to me.
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It was never going to be easy,
but you will have your chance.
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- Will I?
- You will.
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Hold your nerve.
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00:16:18,270 --> 00:16:19,563
W-W-Will you testify?
250
00:16:20,147 --> 00:16:21,899
It's me versus a-- a lot of men.
251
00:16:22,566 --> 00:16:25,986
And they saying things like--
like Mudd is kindhearted.
252
00:16:25,986 --> 00:16:27,654
And they calling me a liar.
253
00:16:27,654 --> 00:16:33,327
You asking me to speak out
against a white man in a federal trial?
254
00:16:34,661 --> 00:16:36,788
They string men from a tree
for a lot less than that.
255
00:16:36,788 --> 00:16:39,917
Don't you want them to know
what he-- what he capable of?
256
00:16:39,917 --> 00:16:42,169
You can tell them what Mudd did to me.
257
00:16:42,169 --> 00:16:44,129
Milo, that's not my story to tell.
258
00:16:44,963 --> 00:16:46,340
[Stanton] What's your concern?
259
00:16:47,132 --> 00:16:50,302
They calling her lazy. And a liar.
260
00:16:53,222 --> 00:16:57,476
I'm just a crippled servant,
so what you think they're gonna call me?
261
00:16:58,060 --> 00:17:00,604
Your account of what Mudd did to you,
262
00:17:01,563 --> 00:17:06,108
that story... [inhales deeply]
...tells us who he really is.
263
00:17:07,653 --> 00:17:11,240
But no one will know that
unless you tell them.
264
00:17:13,492 --> 00:17:14,952
This is your chance.
265
00:17:15,993 --> 00:17:17,954
I'll give you a few minutes
to think about it.
266
00:17:26,088 --> 00:17:28,715
Thank you for granting me immunity.
267
00:17:28,715 --> 00:17:33,303
I promise to tell the whole truth
about the Surratts and Booth
268
00:17:33,303 --> 00:17:35,889
and everyone at the boardinghouse.
269
00:17:35,889 --> 00:17:38,267
Good. Well, I-I'll see you in court.
270
00:17:39,017 --> 00:17:41,061
We could lose if you don't speak up.
271
00:17:43,355 --> 00:17:44,356
Please.
272
00:17:46,650 --> 00:17:47,693
[clears throat]
273
00:17:52,364 --> 00:17:53,699
Sir, Milo said he'd speak.
274
00:17:53,699 --> 00:17:54,783
Good.
275
00:17:55,742 --> 00:17:57,369
Can I count on your testimony?
276
00:17:58,871 --> 00:17:59,872
I'll be there.
277
00:18:00,622 --> 00:18:01,790
Could we keep on practicing?
278
00:18:01,790 --> 00:18:04,418
No, I don't want you to over-rehearse.
279
00:18:04,418 --> 00:18:05,544
You'll do fine.
280
00:18:07,129 --> 00:18:08,630
I'll see you both in the courthouse.
281
00:18:09,464 --> 00:18:10,465
Sir.
282
00:18:12,009 --> 00:18:13,010
[Stanton clears throat]
283
00:18:15,220 --> 00:18:16,221
[Stanton grunts]
284
00:18:16,930 --> 00:18:17,931
Secretary.
285
00:18:19,433 --> 00:18:21,351
Take a seat. [clears throat]
286
00:18:21,351 --> 00:18:23,770
Baker told me to report to you
for the trial.
287
00:18:23,770 --> 00:18:24,855
[Stanton grunts]
288
00:18:25,355 --> 00:18:27,399
- How can I help?
- [Stanton sucks teeth]
289
00:18:28,233 --> 00:18:29,568
[Mary] Officer Weichmann?
290
00:18:31,862 --> 00:18:36,325
I think I know why you've been quiet
at practice. May I talk to you?
291
00:18:37,242 --> 00:18:41,163
I-- I think you know, uh, more
about the men that killed the president
292
00:18:41,163 --> 00:18:42,623
than-- than what you leading on.
293
00:18:47,211 --> 00:18:48,587
And why would you think that?
294
00:18:49,922 --> 00:18:51,381
'Cause Dr. Mudd say, um--
295
00:18:52,216 --> 00:18:54,426
He say that you spent a lot of time
with Surratt.
296
00:18:56,011 --> 00:19:00,390
And he had a meeting with Booth
and Surratt after DC in January.
297
00:19:01,642 --> 00:19:04,102
Mudd, Booth and Surratt,
they all knew each other before the 14th.
298
00:19:05,771 --> 00:19:10,317
And I just feel like there's something
that you not saying much about.
299
00:19:13,737 --> 00:19:17,282
Look, I say that all them knew each other
before the 14th,
300
00:19:17,282 --> 00:19:18,575
they not gonna believe me.
301
00:19:20,869 --> 00:19:22,621
I'll be saying the same thing. Hmm.
302
00:19:22,621 --> 00:19:23,705
[stammers] Not just--
303
00:19:24,957 --> 00:19:26,667
Not-- Not just that.
304
00:19:26,667 --> 00:19:29,586
But, i-if the wind go against me,
just please--
305
00:19:30,796 --> 00:19:32,798
please just tell 'em why you believe me.
306
00:19:35,092 --> 00:19:36,343
Tell me about this letter.
307
00:19:37,761 --> 00:19:40,347
I do believe you have a case
for grand conspiracy.
308
00:19:47,688 --> 00:19:49,022
[Stanton clears throat]
309
00:19:49,022 --> 00:19:51,066
Mr. Simms,
would you please state for the court
310
00:19:51,066 --> 00:19:55,696
whether you were
the defendant Dr. Samuel Mudd's slave?
311
00:19:56,321 --> 00:19:58,198
Yes, sir. I-- I was his carpenter.
312
00:19:58,198 --> 00:19:59,825
How did you become crippled?
313
00:20:03,161 --> 00:20:04,872
Dr. Mudd shot me in the leg.
314
00:20:04,872 --> 00:20:06,164
I never shot that boy.
315
00:20:06,164 --> 00:20:09,209
[chief judge] Manage your defendant,
or I will ask him to leave.
316
00:20:09,209 --> 00:20:12,171
[Ewing] Sit down. Keep quiet, Dr. Mudd,
or you'll have to leave.
317
00:20:12,171 --> 00:20:13,755
He's a liar.
318
00:20:15,549 --> 00:20:17,467
[Holt] What was the reason
Dr. Mudd shot you?
319
00:20:19,845 --> 00:20:20,888
One day, I guess...
320
00:20:23,390 --> 00:20:25,225
Well, I guess Dr. Mudd
ain't like my attitude.
321
00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:30,480
Shot me in the thigh over nothing.
Like it was the punch line to a joke.
322
00:20:32,107 --> 00:20:33,483
Thank you, Mr. Simms, that's all.
323
00:20:33,483 --> 00:20:35,861
[audience murmuring]
324
00:20:45,913 --> 00:20:48,707
[Holt] The prosecution calls
Milo Simms's sister, Mary Simms.
325
00:21:03,972 --> 00:21:05,182
[Holt] Miss Simms...
326
00:21:08,227 --> 00:21:12,981
would you please state for the court
whether you too were the slave
327
00:21:12,981 --> 00:21:15,400
of the prisoner Dr. Samuel Mudd?
328
00:21:16,527 --> 00:21:18,278
Yes, sir. I kept house for him.
329
00:21:18,862 --> 00:21:23,408
And state for the court whether you heard
any talk between a neighbor and Dr. Mudd
330
00:21:23,408 --> 00:21:25,661
about President Abraham Lincoln.
331
00:21:26,495 --> 00:21:28,497
Sir, neighbor told Dr. Mudd.
332
00:21:28,497 --> 00:21:31,500
He say, "Abe Lincoln,
old, goddamn son of a bitch.
333
00:21:31,500 --> 00:21:33,502
He should have been dead long ago."
334
00:21:34,336 --> 00:21:38,799
Dr. Mudd say, "That is much on my mind.
We would have killed him."
335
00:21:38,799 --> 00:21:40,467
- I see.
- [gavel bangs]
336
00:21:40,467 --> 00:21:44,930
And state for the court
whether Dr. Mudd had visitors
337
00:21:44,930 --> 00:21:47,099
stay at his house.
338
00:21:48,141 --> 00:21:50,811
Yes, sir, Confederates. They wore gray.
339
00:21:50,811 --> 00:21:52,938
And, uh, Mudd made me
take provisions to 'em.
340
00:21:52,938 --> 00:21:56,441
In his words, he-- he, uh, he tell me,
"Look out for 'em."
341
00:21:56,441 --> 00:21:59,820
Lastly, was there a particular man
who most often visited Dr. Mudd
342
00:21:59,820 --> 00:22:01,822
at his house last summer?
343
00:22:02,614 --> 00:22:04,032
[Mary] Yes, sir. John Surratt.
344
00:22:04,867 --> 00:22:07,870
He stayed most Saturday to Monday. Mmm.
345
00:22:07,870 --> 00:22:11,832
Uh, he go between Richmond
and-- and Montreal.
346
00:22:11,832 --> 00:22:13,000
Thank you, Miss Simms.
347
00:22:15,627 --> 00:22:17,754
If you did not want to
aid their activities,
348
00:22:17,754 --> 00:22:19,173
why didn't you leave?
349
00:22:19,173 --> 00:22:20,716
I tried to leave, sir.
350
00:22:21,884 --> 00:22:23,093
Dr. Mudd whipped me.
351
00:22:26,388 --> 00:22:30,976
Uh, we will stipulate that she has scars
and will not ask her to show them.
352
00:22:34,229 --> 00:22:38,775
You want us to believe
the good Dr. Mudd is a Confederate agent?
353
00:22:38,775 --> 00:22:41,570
His home, a stop on the Secret Line?
354
00:22:41,570 --> 00:22:42,738
Yes, sir.
355
00:22:43,447 --> 00:22:44,781
And that Mudd, Surratt and Booth,
356
00:22:44,781 --> 00:22:46,950
they was friends
before the assassination.
357
00:22:46,950 --> 00:22:48,243
[Ewing sighs]
358
00:22:48,243 --> 00:22:51,747
Pardon me,
but have you ever been to school?
359
00:22:53,582 --> 00:22:56,043
Who believes this yarn she's spinning?
360
00:22:58,420 --> 00:23:00,506
If you don't believe me,
ask Officer Weichmann.
361
00:23:06,595 --> 00:23:09,014
State your name and where you live.
362
00:23:09,014 --> 00:23:10,891
Uh, Louis Weichmann.
363
00:23:12,059 --> 00:23:15,145
And I, uh-- I stay at the DC boardinghouse
364
00:23:15,145 --> 00:23:17,773
owned by Mrs. Mary Surratt.
365
00:23:18,732 --> 00:23:21,485
John Surratt's mother, the prisoner there.
366
00:23:22,152 --> 00:23:26,156
Have you ever seen
Mrs. Surratt with the defendants?
367
00:23:27,115 --> 00:23:29,618
- Yeah, with all of them.
- [audience murmuring]
368
00:23:29,618 --> 00:23:31,995
[Ewing]
And how do you know the widow Surratt?
369
00:23:32,829 --> 00:23:37,000
I, uh, started boarding with her
when the War Department hired me.
370
00:23:37,876 --> 00:23:41,296
Did not realize my associates
at the boardinghouse
371
00:23:41,296 --> 00:23:43,090
were planning the assassination.
372
00:23:44,925 --> 00:23:46,552
Or I would have reported it.
373
00:23:47,594 --> 00:23:50,556
[Ewing] When's the last time
you saw John Surratt?
374
00:23:52,975 --> 00:23:56,103
Uh, he left a few days before April 14th.
375
00:23:57,229 --> 00:23:59,940
Said he was looking for work
up in Montreal
376
00:23:59,940 --> 00:24:02,234
and I should expect
to hear from him. [swallows]
377
00:24:02,985 --> 00:24:06,822
[Ewing] Could Mr. Surratt have
come and gone without your knowledge?
378
00:24:06,822 --> 00:24:08,490
No, that would have been impossible.
379
00:24:10,033 --> 00:24:12,286
You were on intimate terms since school?
380
00:24:14,663 --> 00:24:16,540
Very intimate, indeed.
381
00:24:16,540 --> 00:24:17,624
[Ewing] How intimate?
382
00:24:20,586 --> 00:24:25,340
Well, at his mother's boardinghouse,
we shared a table,
383
00:24:26,884 --> 00:24:30,679
we shared a room, we shared a bed, and...
384
00:24:32,556 --> 00:24:33,557
we slept together.
385
00:24:33,557 --> 00:24:36,435
- [audience clamoring]
- [gavel bangs]
386
00:24:36,435 --> 00:24:37,561
[chief judge] Order!
387
00:24:40,439 --> 00:24:45,360
You never heard discussions
between Surratt and the other defendants?
388
00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:47,905
The only time I overheard some of it
389
00:24:47,905 --> 00:24:53,619
was when, uh, Surratt took me
to Booth's hotel room in January.
390
00:24:55,204 --> 00:24:56,496
Dr. Mudd was there.
391
00:24:57,289 --> 00:25:00,375
Booth claimed that he was interested
in buying Mudd's farm.
392
00:25:01,001 --> 00:25:03,837
Did you have reason to doubt them?
393
00:25:03,837 --> 00:25:07,758
[Weichmann] No, I never knew
why John had gold with him
394
00:25:07,758 --> 00:25:11,970
when he would return from trips
to Montreal or Richmond or...
395
00:25:13,805 --> 00:25:17,226
But he never did share
that he engaged in Confederate activities.
396
00:25:17,226 --> 00:25:19,394
Mmm. Thank you.
397
00:25:20,437 --> 00:25:23,774
Your Honor, I have every reason
to defend John Surratt.
398
00:25:25,609 --> 00:25:26,610
But, uh...
399
00:25:28,195 --> 00:25:31,782
Well, everything Miss Simms has said
about him makes sense to me now.
400
00:25:34,743 --> 00:25:35,744
And I believe her.
401
00:25:39,665 --> 00:25:41,124
You are good at this, Miss Simms.
402
00:25:42,334 --> 00:25:43,585
- Thank you, sir.
- [clears throat]
403
00:25:46,088 --> 00:25:48,799
I'm a correspondent
for the New York Tribune.
404
00:25:50,926 --> 00:25:52,886
Two years ago, I reported to Baker
405
00:25:52,886 --> 00:25:57,432
that I had a source inside the
Confederate Secret Service in Montreal.
406
00:25:59,059 --> 00:26:00,936
He didn't realize that source was me.
407
00:26:01,979 --> 00:26:04,398
To secure my income during the war,
408
00:26:05,482 --> 00:26:10,445
I gathered intelligence on both
the War Department and the CSS.
409
00:26:11,780 --> 00:26:16,702
When Lee surrendered, fellows
were celebrating in the streets of DC.
410
00:26:16,702 --> 00:26:19,788
In Montreal, they were awaiting
the go-ahead from Richmond.
411
00:26:21,290 --> 00:26:24,877
John Surratt delivered it
to set "pet" in motion.
412
00:26:26,420 --> 00:26:27,254
Pet?
413
00:26:28,297 --> 00:26:29,298
John Wilkes Booth.
414
00:26:30,340 --> 00:26:33,302
Who calls John Wilkes Booth "pet"?
415
00:26:35,262 --> 00:26:36,805
In CSS circles,
416
00:26:36,805 --> 00:26:41,226
it's commonly known that Jefferson Davis
refers to Booth as his pet.
417
00:26:41,226 --> 00:26:43,604
- [audience clamoring]
- [gavel banging]
418
00:26:43,604 --> 00:26:45,898
[chief judge] Quiet, please. Order!
419
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:49,484
I knew they had a plan.
420
00:26:51,069 --> 00:26:53,155
And this is how Sanders
explained it to me.
421
00:26:54,948 --> 00:26:58,202
They would kill the president,
the vice president,
422
00:26:58,952 --> 00:27:00,245
and the secretary of state.
423
00:27:01,246 --> 00:27:06,376
Since the Constitution does not indicate
how to choose a new president,
424
00:27:07,377 --> 00:27:08,378
it would be chaos.
425
00:27:09,004 --> 00:27:13,342
It was their Hail Mary plan to win
if they lost on the battlefield.
426
00:27:14,301 --> 00:27:15,719
And Sanders told me that he believed
427
00:27:15,719 --> 00:27:17,930
that Booth would make a fizzle
of the plan.
428
00:27:19,264 --> 00:27:22,434
I have provided a message that I found
that was delivered and never picked up.
429
00:27:23,101 --> 00:27:27,272
Who was this letter addressed to?
430
00:27:28,190 --> 00:27:30,317
George Sanders, who's now in London.
431
00:27:31,109 --> 00:27:34,279
George Sanders. Would you please
read the message to the court?
432
00:27:41,036 --> 00:27:42,913
"Pet has done his job well.
433
00:27:44,248 --> 00:27:45,290
He is safe.
434
00:27:46,458 --> 00:27:47,793
And old Abe is in hell."
435
00:27:47,793 --> 00:27:49,878
[audience clamoring]
436
00:27:53,298 --> 00:27:57,135
When was the last time
you saw John Surratt in Montreal?
437
00:27:57,135 --> 00:27:59,179
Four days before the assassination
438
00:27:59,179 --> 00:28:01,473
in the smoking room
of the Saint Lawrence Hotel.
439
00:28:02,432 --> 00:28:03,892
With a dispatch from Richmond.
440
00:28:03,892 --> 00:28:06,687
- Stating what subject?
- [Conover] I didn't see it.
441
00:28:08,021 --> 00:28:12,442
But Sanders turned to me and said,
"This makes the thing all right."
442
00:28:12,442 --> 00:28:14,027
What did you take that to mean?
443
00:28:16,154 --> 00:28:18,574
That Booth had the go-ahead
from Jefferson Davis.
444
00:28:18,574 --> 00:28:20,951
- [audience clamoring]
- Thank you, Mr. Conover.
445
00:28:25,873 --> 00:28:28,667
Is your name Sanford Conover?
446
00:28:29,418 --> 00:28:31,128
It is not the only name I have.
447
00:28:33,755 --> 00:28:38,010
Our research shows us
that you have an alias as a broker.
448
00:28:38,010 --> 00:28:39,469
James Wallace?
449
00:28:40,304 --> 00:28:41,305
That is also me.
450
00:28:41,305 --> 00:28:44,183
[audience murmuring]
451
00:28:44,183 --> 00:28:47,978
So who is Charles A. Dunham?
An expert in forgery.
452
00:28:47,978 --> 00:28:49,813
That is also me, sir.
453
00:28:49,813 --> 00:28:53,817
So, you're a double agent,
and you have three different names?
454
00:28:53,817 --> 00:28:56,695
Which of these names
is actually yours, sir?
455
00:28:57,237 --> 00:28:59,031
I go wherever the story leads.
456
00:28:59,823 --> 00:29:02,201
Does that include forging evidence?
457
00:29:03,202 --> 00:29:04,661
No, sir, it does not.
458
00:29:04,661 --> 00:29:11,084
Exactly when did you first see Booth,
Surratt and Sanders in Montreal?
459
00:29:13,795 --> 00:29:14,963
I'll repeat the question.
460
00:29:15,547 --> 00:29:19,426
When did you first see
Booth, Surratt and Sanders in Montreal?
461
00:29:20,093 --> 00:29:22,346
October 17th, before the election.
462
00:29:23,347 --> 00:29:27,017
It's the first time that I saw Booth
in Montreal with Surratt and Sanders.
463
00:29:27,017 --> 00:29:28,727
[Ewing] Are you certain about that date?
464
00:29:30,521 --> 00:29:31,522
I am certain.
465
00:29:32,231 --> 00:29:35,692
I have a record that you were in jail
for trespassing
466
00:29:35,692 --> 00:29:38,070
the entire month of October.
467
00:29:38,070 --> 00:29:42,366
- I was briefly arrested, but I was not--
- Mr. Dunham. Or Conover. Or is it Wallace?
468
00:29:42,366 --> 00:29:43,700
Are you a con man?
469
00:29:43,700 --> 00:29:46,995
How could you be in a Montreal hotel
when you were in jail?
470
00:29:46,995 --> 00:29:49,748
I misspoke. I got the month wrong.
471
00:29:49,748 --> 00:29:51,625
- [audience clamoring]
- [Conover] Your Honor.
472
00:29:51,625 --> 00:29:52,876
[gavel bangs]
473
00:29:52,876 --> 00:29:54,336
Despite my confusion,
474
00:29:55,128 --> 00:29:58,382
I'm certain
that Jefferson Davis was aware
475
00:29:58,382 --> 00:30:00,676
of the plan
to assassinate President Lincoln.
476
00:30:01,844 --> 00:30:05,722
I believe he not only knew it,
he ordered it.
477
00:30:08,183 --> 00:30:11,937
As a reporter, spy and a forger,
478
00:30:13,438 --> 00:30:15,482
you must have quite an imagination.
479
00:30:16,483 --> 00:30:19,736
Did you intentionally commit perjury
in this courtroom?
480
00:30:19,736 --> 00:30:21,154
Or do you just lie for sport?
481
00:30:21,154 --> 00:30:24,491
What difference does it make
what month it was? Hmm?
482
00:30:25,242 --> 00:30:26,493
The defense rests.
483
00:30:29,621 --> 00:30:31,665
[audience murmuring]
484
00:30:42,050 --> 00:30:42,885
News?
485
00:30:42,885 --> 00:30:46,972
Oh, um. No. No, there's no news.
486
00:30:46,972 --> 00:30:48,348
Not, uh-- Not yet.
487
00:30:49,141 --> 00:30:52,186
Whatever the outcome,
you did right by Abe.
488
00:30:53,187 --> 00:30:56,064
Charging Davis and the Confederacy
puts it on the record.
489
00:30:56,857 --> 00:30:58,567
They know we know what they did.
490
00:30:59,776 --> 00:31:01,778
- So whatever the verdict, I can sleep.
- [scoffs]
491
00:31:03,488 --> 00:31:06,033
Well, I'll sleep when justice is served.
492
00:31:06,033 --> 00:31:09,411
Oh, don't get me wrong. I want that.
493
00:31:10,454 --> 00:31:12,497
[telegraph clicking]
494
00:31:19,588 --> 00:31:21,256
The judges reached a verdict.
495
00:31:33,810 --> 00:31:34,811
Any indication?
496
00:31:35,521 --> 00:31:36,522
No hint.
497
00:31:48,575 --> 00:31:50,035
[bailiff] All rise.
498
00:32:05,425 --> 00:32:06,426
[chief judge] Be seated.
499
00:32:17,187 --> 00:32:19,690
Whatever may be the convictions of others,
500
00:32:20,315 --> 00:32:22,109
it is my own conviction
501
00:32:22,109 --> 00:32:26,864
that Jefferson Davis is as clearly
proven guilty of this conspiracy
502
00:32:26,864 --> 00:32:29,157
- as John Wilkes Booth...
- [audience murmuring]
503
00:32:29,157 --> 00:32:32,953
...by whose hand
Davis inflicted the wound on Lincoln.
504
00:32:34,329 --> 00:32:35,664
[gavel bangs]
505
00:32:35,664 --> 00:32:41,211
However, our panel has determined
the charges of grand conspiracy
506
00:32:41,211 --> 00:32:43,088
to be inconclusive.
507
00:32:43,839 --> 00:32:49,428
The commission does believe
that using the hand of John Wilkes Booth,
508
00:32:49,428 --> 00:32:55,309
conspirators in Richmond and Montreal
inflicted a mortal wound
509
00:32:55,309 --> 00:32:58,854
which deprived the republic
of its chief defender.
510
00:33:00,439 --> 00:33:04,151
Conspirators filled the land
from ocean to ocean
511
00:33:04,151 --> 00:33:07,029
with a strange, great sorrow.
512
00:33:10,574 --> 00:33:14,494
But due to tainted evidence
and technicalities,
513
00:33:14,494 --> 00:33:18,540
our panel was prevented
from rendering a fair verdict
514
00:33:18,540 --> 00:33:22,669
on the grand conspiracy
behind the assassination.
515
00:33:22,669 --> 00:33:27,132
Future inquiries and history
must achieve that proof.
516
00:33:30,010 --> 00:33:33,096
Yet we have reached a verdict
on the defendants in this courtroom.
517
00:33:33,764 --> 00:33:35,891
Our decision will be read
by the war secretary.
518
00:33:35,891 --> 00:33:38,143
[clears throat] Thank you.
519
00:33:41,063 --> 00:33:42,064
[Stanton clears throat]
520
00:34:10,884 --> 00:34:11,885
[clears throat]
521
00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:16,014
Mary E. Surratt...
522
00:34:18,684 --> 00:34:19,726
guilty.
523
00:34:19,726 --> 00:34:22,228
- [breathes shakily]
- [audience whispering]
524
00:34:22,228 --> 00:34:24,731
Lewis Powell, guilty.
525
00:34:28,443 --> 00:34:31,321
George Atzerodt, guilty.
526
00:34:33,699 --> 00:34:35,576
David E. Herold...
527
00:34:40,289 --> 00:34:41,290
guilty.
528
00:34:45,543 --> 00:34:48,255
All to be hanged tomorrow.
529
00:34:49,089 --> 00:34:51,717
[Mary Surratt crying]
530
00:34:56,763 --> 00:34:58,849
Edward Spangler, guilty.
531
00:35:00,058 --> 00:35:02,436
Sentenced to six years imprisonment.
532
00:35:06,273 --> 00:35:07,274
How about Mudd?
533
00:35:08,150 --> 00:35:09,151
It's coming.
534
00:35:11,278 --> 00:35:14,698
Finally, Dr. Samuel A. Mudd.
535
00:35:18,493 --> 00:35:19,494
Guilty.
536
00:35:20,204 --> 00:35:23,749
Sentenced to a term
of life imprisonment and hard labor.
537
00:35:23,749 --> 00:35:26,043
- [audience clamoring, cheering]
- [gavel banging]
538
00:35:28,462 --> 00:35:29,671
[gavel banging]
539
00:35:29,671 --> 00:35:31,465
[chief judge] Order! Quiet!
540
00:35:31,465 --> 00:35:32,966
[gavel banging]
541
00:35:44,645 --> 00:35:45,729
[exhales deeply]
542
00:35:55,072 --> 00:35:56,448
I told the truth.
543
00:35:56,448 --> 00:35:59,618
What was the point in telling the truth
if it was surrounded by lies?
544
00:35:59,618 --> 00:36:02,162
- You knew exactly who I am, Baker.
- [breathes shakily]
545
00:36:02,162 --> 00:36:03,247
Baker.
546
00:36:03,956 --> 00:36:06,917
[clears throat] Did someone offer you
a better price?
547
00:36:06,917 --> 00:36:10,420
I received a suspicious package
this morning from London.
548
00:36:12,172 --> 00:36:14,424
You know where to find me
when you need me again.
549
00:36:16,009 --> 00:36:17,344
[Baker] Sanders got to him.
550
00:36:19,221 --> 00:36:21,098
- [reporter 1] Secretary.
- [reporter 2] Secretary, a word.
551
00:36:21,098 --> 00:36:23,100
- Secretary, a word, please.
- [reporter 1] Mr. Secretary.
552
00:36:23,100 --> 00:36:26,270
- Gentlemen.
- Was accusing Davis and the Confederacy
553
00:36:26,270 --> 00:36:28,313
of grand conspiracy too ambitious?
554
00:36:28,313 --> 00:36:29,606
Absolutely not.
555
00:36:29,606 --> 00:36:32,693
The verdict for Jefferson Davis
was inconclusive
556
00:36:32,693 --> 00:36:35,070
but let there be no doubt,
557
00:36:35,070 --> 00:36:37,865
this court did not exonerate
the Confederacy here this evening.
558
00:36:38,490 --> 00:36:39,867
But did you fail Lincoln?
559
00:36:41,618 --> 00:36:43,120
We can't ask him, can we?
560
00:36:44,162 --> 00:36:44,997
[clears throat]
561
00:36:44,997 --> 00:36:46,373
Sir, could you address Reconstruction?
562
00:36:46,373 --> 00:36:47,457
[reporters clamoring]
563
00:36:49,459 --> 00:36:51,461
[breathing heavily]
564
00:37:22,951 --> 00:37:26,246
[Eckert] Papers want your permission
to use the image of the executions.
565
00:37:26,788 --> 00:37:28,290
[inhales sharply] Permission granted.
566
00:37:30,375 --> 00:37:31,877
Also, the, uh,
567
00:37:32,669 --> 00:37:35,756
the National Archives collected the items
from the evidence table.
568
00:37:35,756 --> 00:37:37,132
- They, uh--
- Good.
569
00:37:38,550 --> 00:37:41,553
They want to know
why 18 pages of Booth's diary are missing.
570
00:37:44,389 --> 00:37:45,807
They could open an inquiry.
571
00:37:48,352 --> 00:37:51,230
Um, Baker had it last. [clears throat]
572
00:37:52,856 --> 00:37:54,066
Baker claims you did.
573
00:37:54,900 --> 00:37:57,694
They should, uh--
They should speak to Baker.
574
00:38:01,698 --> 00:38:05,619
Uh, also, earlier, I, uh, noticed
your hearth needed a cleaning.
575
00:38:08,288 --> 00:38:09,706
I had that taken care of.
576
00:38:23,887 --> 00:38:24,972
[classical music playing]
577
00:38:24,972 --> 00:38:27,724
[Howard] ...personally
see your application arrive on my desk.
578
00:38:27,724 --> 00:38:29,226
[Mary] Application for what, sir?
579
00:38:29,226 --> 00:38:33,355
[Elizabeth] Mr. Howard has founded
a university for colored students.
580
00:38:33,355 --> 00:38:36,859
A college of arts and letters and trades.
581
00:38:38,485 --> 00:38:41,113
As soon as I qualify,
I'll put my application on your desk, sir.
582
00:38:41,113 --> 00:38:42,197
[both chuckle]
583
00:38:43,824 --> 00:38:44,658
[chuckles]
584
00:38:46,994 --> 00:38:47,953
Edwin.
585
00:38:48,453 --> 00:38:49,454
Oliver.
586
00:38:50,372 --> 00:38:53,375
An hour ago, Johnson told me
he was cutting the bureau by half.
587
00:38:53,375 --> 00:38:54,543
He made a point to say
588
00:38:54,543 --> 00:38:57,880
that he knows we helped freedmen
under the auspices of the War Department.
589
00:38:58,714 --> 00:39:00,924
I fear he's up to something.
I don't know what.
590
00:39:00,924 --> 00:39:04,011
[inhales sharply] All right. Thank you.
591
00:39:04,011 --> 00:39:06,471
[sighs] I think it's about that time.
Shall we?
592
00:39:06,471 --> 00:39:07,764
- Of course.
- [Howard chuckles]
593
00:39:07,764 --> 00:39:10,475
- [inhales sharply] So...
- [clinking wine glass]
594
00:39:10,475 --> 00:39:13,645
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh, welcome.
595
00:39:13,645 --> 00:39:17,733
[stammers] Thank you all, uh, for coming.
[inhales deeply]
596
00:39:17,733 --> 00:39:20,110
We are, uh-- We are gathered here
this evening
597
00:39:20,110 --> 00:39:23,530
to celebrate the publication
of Miss Keckley's remarkable book
598
00:39:23,530 --> 00:39:28,118
and to raise funds for
the Contraband Relief Association,
599
00:39:28,118 --> 00:39:29,703
uh, founded by Elizabeth.
600
00:39:30,829 --> 00:39:36,960
Now the-- the Freedmen's Bureau, uh,
headed by the valiant, uh, Oliver Howard,
601
00:39:37,711 --> 00:39:42,799
uh, essentially, uh, parallels
Miss Keckley's vital efforts.
602
00:39:42,799 --> 00:39:47,054
And as long as the-- the work of the
bureau is not supported by the president,
603
00:39:47,054 --> 00:39:51,600
we continue to rely on Miss Keckley's fund
to support and provide resources
604
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:58,106
to the recently freed as they
make the leap from slavery into society.
605
00:39:58,857 --> 00:40:02,569
So do please give as generously
as you're able.
606
00:40:02,569 --> 00:40:05,614
I greatly admire her undertaking...
[chuckles] ...and, uh...
607
00:40:05,614 --> 00:40:11,245
[inhales sharply] ...well, if, uh,
truth be known, I greatly admire her, so...
608
00:40:11,245 --> 00:40:12,162
Uh, Elizabeth.
609
00:40:12,162 --> 00:40:13,664
- [guests applauding]
- [chuckles]
610
00:40:15,123 --> 00:40:16,917
Thank you so much, Secretary.
611
00:40:16,917 --> 00:40:20,546
Every donation you make
provides staple items for those in need.
612
00:40:22,047 --> 00:40:24,675
Because too many of my brothers
and sisters coming up north
613
00:40:24,675 --> 00:40:26,510
are not prepared for their new life.
614
00:40:27,427 --> 00:40:30,180
If it were not for the generous spirit
of Mrs. Lincoln
615
00:40:30,889 --> 00:40:32,891
and that of Mr. Abraham Lincoln...
616
00:40:33,684 --> 00:40:34,685
May he rest in peace.
617
00:40:35,477 --> 00:40:40,774
They have given relief many times over,
which is why I included them in my book,
618
00:40:40,774 --> 00:40:43,735
Thirty Years a Slave
and Four Years in the White House.
619
00:40:44,945 --> 00:40:49,074
That's all I have to say. Okay. [chuckles]
So, all proceeds today will be donated.
620
00:40:49,074 --> 00:40:51,493
And thank you again for coming.
Please enjoy.
621
00:40:51,493 --> 00:40:53,120
- [applauding]
- [glasses clinking]
622
00:40:54,538 --> 00:40:55,664
[chuckles]
623
00:40:57,666 --> 00:40:58,667
It's a good turnout.
624
00:40:59,668 --> 00:41:01,170
You invited Lorenzo Thomas?
625
00:41:03,589 --> 00:41:06,008
Is it the same Thomas
you shipped to Arkansas?
626
00:41:06,008 --> 00:41:07,092
Failed his way up?
627
00:41:09,261 --> 00:41:10,429
Why would he come to this?
628
00:41:16,643 --> 00:41:18,645
I think Johnson might be replacing me.
629
00:41:21,732 --> 00:41:22,733
Hold this.
630
00:41:27,362 --> 00:41:28,447
Mr. President.
631
00:41:29,907 --> 00:41:31,158
Thank you for coming.
632
00:41:32,117 --> 00:41:33,702
- Lorenzo.
- Edwin.
633
00:41:34,703 --> 00:41:35,829
We need to talk.
634
00:41:35,829 --> 00:41:36,914
Please.
635
00:41:40,959 --> 00:41:45,380
You tried to ruin my party,
so now I am ruining yours.
636
00:41:46,298 --> 00:41:49,218
Edwin, I plan to withdraw your men
from the South.
637
00:41:49,843 --> 00:41:52,012
I know you won't obey my decision
638
00:41:52,012 --> 00:41:55,349
because it ends your enforcement
of Reconstruction.
639
00:41:55,349 --> 00:41:56,433
That's fine.
640
00:41:58,268 --> 00:42:01,230
I appointed Thomas to replace you.
641
00:42:01,813 --> 00:42:03,565
He'll send the order tomorrow.
642
00:42:03,565 --> 00:42:07,486
Americans are not ready
for all these plans you're making.
643
00:42:09,363 --> 00:42:10,948
There's too much unrest.
644
00:42:13,575 --> 00:42:14,785
I could have accused you.
645
00:42:16,286 --> 00:42:17,287
But you didn't.
646
00:42:21,041 --> 00:42:22,751
If you remove me like this,
647
00:42:22,751 --> 00:42:25,003
it will trigger an investigation
by Congress
648
00:42:25,712 --> 00:42:26,713
and they'll impeach you.
649
00:42:27,506 --> 00:42:30,008
Congress is welcome to fight me.
650
00:42:32,553 --> 00:42:35,222
Come on, I'll give you a tour.
651
00:42:37,140 --> 00:42:38,141
Mr. President.
652
00:42:57,703 --> 00:42:58,620
[Thomas scoffs]
653
00:43:10,507 --> 00:43:12,634
- [Stanton sighs]
- I'll need your keys.
654
00:43:13,844 --> 00:43:14,970
Of course.
655
00:43:14,970 --> 00:43:18,182
Um, I've put them--
656
00:43:19,016 --> 00:43:19,975
Left them somewhere.
657
00:43:22,186 --> 00:43:23,270
[clears throat] Let me look.
658
00:43:29,610 --> 00:43:31,528
{\an8}[Abraham] Mars. Come on in.
659
00:43:32,112 --> 00:43:33,238
{\an8}Uh, need more time?
660
00:43:33,238 --> 00:43:34,364
{\an8}[Abraham] No, no.
661
00:43:35,532 --> 00:43:36,742
I've had my hour.
662
00:43:37,326 --> 00:43:39,703
- [door closes]
- Willie and I talked through prayer.
663
00:43:39,703 --> 00:43:43,290
He's as charming a rascal as ever,
and I read him a chapter
664
00:43:43,290 --> 00:43:44,750
from his favorite novel.
665
00:43:45,751 --> 00:43:51,465
This weekly scheduled hour of grief,
it mends my heart, contains it.
666
00:43:51,465 --> 00:43:54,384
If I never thanked you for teaching me
the ritual, I'm thanking you now.
667
00:43:56,887 --> 00:43:58,472
So, what is so important
668
00:43:58,472 --> 00:44:01,141
that it couldn't wait for me
to come by the office later?
669
00:44:01,141 --> 00:44:02,976
Has Lee surrendered a second time?
670
00:44:02,976 --> 00:44:05,604
[chuckles, inhales sharply]
No, he has not.
671
00:44:05,604 --> 00:44:06,730
Oh, I know.
672
00:44:06,730 --> 00:44:09,399
Jefferson Davis changed his tune
673
00:44:09,399 --> 00:44:12,861
- and decided to join the cabinet.
- [chuckles]
674
00:44:12,861 --> 00:44:15,989
[coughing, clears throat]
675
00:44:16,740 --> 00:44:17,741
No.
676
00:44:17,741 --> 00:44:19,117
[inhales deeply]
677
00:44:20,786 --> 00:44:24,873
Abe, as you know...
[clears throat, clicks tongue] ...um,
678
00:44:25,832 --> 00:44:31,213
Ellen and I were mourning our--
our son, James, when I joined the cabinet.
679
00:44:32,172 --> 00:44:36,134
She supported me
taking your offer with her whole self.
680
00:44:38,303 --> 00:44:41,807
It's been long years and late nights.
681
00:44:41,807 --> 00:44:43,559
[inhales sharply]
682
00:44:43,559 --> 00:44:47,938
And now that, you know,
God willing, we have finally prevailed...
683
00:44:51,692 --> 00:44:54,319
well... [clears throat]
...she'd like me home.
684
00:44:55,237 --> 00:44:57,030
You're attempting to resign?
685
00:44:59,449 --> 00:45:00,450
I am.
686
00:45:03,453 --> 00:45:06,582
Oh, Ellen knows that... [stammers]
...the work isn't done
687
00:45:06,582 --> 00:45:09,209
the moment Lee flies a dish towel.
688
00:45:09,209 --> 00:45:10,294
She does.
689
00:45:13,172 --> 00:45:16,717
My priorities need to resume to my family,
690
00:45:16,717 --> 00:45:21,096
and obviously I will make myself available
to whoever you name as my successor.
691
00:45:21,096 --> 00:45:24,266
[inhales, exhales sharply]
692
00:45:24,850 --> 00:45:27,060
Mars, I can't accept your resignation.
693
00:45:28,437 --> 00:45:30,272
And I do not believe
that you believe in it.
694
00:45:31,899 --> 00:45:33,901
Your heart, it's always been
more in Reconstruction
695
00:45:33,901 --> 00:45:35,319
than it ever was in victory.
696
00:45:35,319 --> 00:45:36,904
And I need you now more than ever.
697
00:45:39,615 --> 00:45:43,744
- And you could propose a vacation.
- [inhales, exhales deeply]
698
00:45:43,744 --> 00:45:46,580
We're planning on
finally going to California.
699
00:45:48,457 --> 00:45:50,751
We could go to the beach.
700
00:45:51,877 --> 00:45:54,087
- Come with us. [chuckles]
- [Stanton chuckles]
701
00:45:54,087 --> 00:45:56,965
Yeah, after we pass the amendments.
Maybe next summer.
702
00:45:56,965 --> 00:46:01,345
You can tell Ellen that you won't
be working on Christmas this year.
703
00:46:02,221 --> 00:46:04,097
She'll have you home for the holiday.
704
00:46:05,891 --> 00:46:08,769
Abe, it's April. [chuckles, clears throat]
705
00:46:10,020 --> 00:46:14,650
Abe, I have given you and this office
three years.
706
00:46:14,650 --> 00:46:17,486
I am confident that the--
the plans that I have put in pla--
707
00:46:17,486 --> 00:46:20,906
Reconstruction is more difficult
than the destruction of war.
708
00:46:20,906 --> 00:46:22,658
You've been our main reliance.
709
00:46:23,408 --> 00:46:25,827
You understand the national situation
better than anyone.
710
00:46:28,205 --> 00:46:29,248
I don't want to imagine.
711
00:46:29,248 --> 00:46:33,794
It is my wish and it is the country's need
that you remain.
712
00:46:35,337 --> 00:46:36,338
You cannot go.
713
00:46:37,756 --> 00:46:39,675
You must see us through the final act.
714
00:46:46,181 --> 00:46:50,394
[sighs] I've, uh,
heard you have a taste for Scotch?
715
00:46:51,311 --> 00:46:54,606
If you're interested, I have
a-- a 30-year-old I've been saving.
716
00:46:54,606 --> 00:46:56,984
It's in the, uh, the hall pantry there.
717
00:46:57,734 --> 00:47:01,905
Mmm. [clicks tongue]
I do love a good aged Scotch. [chuckles]
718
00:47:02,573 --> 00:47:05,117
[sniffs] Let's open it.
719
00:47:07,411 --> 00:47:08,954
[inhales deeply]
720
00:47:12,916 --> 00:47:15,544
- It's just round to the right.
- [Thomas] Hmm.
721
00:47:16,128 --> 00:47:18,589
- Uh, you can't miss it.
- [Thomas] Oh. Okay.
722
00:47:36,106 --> 00:47:38,567
[grunting]
723
00:47:38,567 --> 00:47:41,904
- [banging on door]
- [grunts]
724
00:47:44,615 --> 00:47:45,866
[banging continues]
725
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:51,830
You wanna kill Reconstruction?
726
00:47:53,123 --> 00:47:54,625
You'll have to get past me.
727
00:47:55,876 --> 00:47:57,586
[banging continues]
728
00:47:57,586 --> 00:48:00,464
[Thomas] Edwin. Open the door, Edwin.
729
00:48:01,673 --> 00:48:02,674
Edwin?
730
00:48:03,467 --> 00:48:05,469
[banging continues]
731
00:48:05,469 --> 00:48:11,183
[yelling] Edwin, I am secretary of war.
I'll have the army here in a day.
732
00:48:11,808 --> 00:48:13,810
[banging continues]
733
00:48:36,500 --> 00:48:38,919
{\an8}[tapping Morse code]
734
00:48:46,134 --> 00:48:48,136
[Stanton] "Dear General Grant."
735
00:49:21,170 --> 00:49:22,421
[indistinct dialogue]
736
00:49:51,909 --> 00:49:53,785
{\an8}[speaking indistinctly]
737
00:50:01,126 --> 00:50:02,252
All right. [chuckles]
738
00:50:03,462 --> 00:50:06,298
- [student] Don't be nervous.
- Very nervous.
739
00:50:06,298 --> 00:50:07,382
[device hissing]
740
00:50:10,636 --> 00:50:13,764
{\an8}[coughing, groans]
741
00:50:13,764 --> 00:50:16,183
- [Eddie Jr.] How do you feel?
- [stammers] Good.
742
00:50:16,183 --> 00:50:19,102
You coming down for breakfast
or should I bring a plate up?
743
00:50:19,102 --> 00:50:21,688
No, no. Um, I'll come down.
744
00:50:22,272 --> 00:50:25,400
[breathes heavily, groans]
745
00:50:29,112 --> 00:50:30,322
What is it? [breathes heavily]
746
00:50:31,490 --> 00:50:34,451
- News from the court.
- Mm-hmm.
747
00:50:36,870 --> 00:50:38,956
Your nomination was confirmed.
748
00:50:40,123 --> 00:50:42,459
[breathes deeply]
749
00:50:44,336 --> 00:50:45,337
Hmm.
750
00:50:50,884 --> 00:50:51,885
Show me.
751
00:50:56,431 --> 00:50:57,432
Hmm.
752
00:51:08,277 --> 00:51:11,738
You know, I hated seeing you sacrifice
so much of your health
753
00:51:12,990 --> 00:51:14,199
to hold back Johnson.
754
00:51:16,785 --> 00:51:17,703
But I see now.
755
00:51:19,663 --> 00:51:20,497
It was worth it.
756
00:51:23,083 --> 00:51:26,420
On the court, your decisions
will finish your work with Lincoln.
757
00:51:29,047 --> 00:51:31,008
[clicks tongue] Father, you did it.
[chuckles]
758
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:34,845
The family know?
759
00:51:34,845 --> 00:51:35,929
[sniffs]
760
00:51:36,597 --> 00:51:38,015
Come down and tell them.
761
00:51:38,015 --> 00:51:40,767
Grandpa is a justice of the Supreme Court.
762
00:51:40,767 --> 00:51:41,935
[chuckles]
763
00:51:42,644 --> 00:51:43,645
I'll, um--
764
00:51:44,771 --> 00:51:47,524
I'll be-- I'll be right down.
You, uh-- You go on.
765
00:51:51,612 --> 00:51:52,613
[clears throat]
766
00:51:55,949 --> 00:51:57,743
Eddie. [breathes deeply]
767
00:51:57,743 --> 00:52:00,120
Um, thank you.
768
00:52:18,388 --> 00:52:19,890
We finish the work now.
769
00:52:21,308 --> 00:52:23,060
Um, we have to.
770
00:52:23,060 --> 00:52:25,812
[sighs deeply]
771
00:52:30,317 --> 00:52:32,528
[stammers, wheezes]
772
00:52:34,905 --> 00:52:35,906
[wheezes]
773
00:52:37,783 --> 00:52:38,909
[wheezes]
774
00:52:53,215 --> 00:52:56,802
[Eddie Jr.] My father died
of asthma-related organ failure.
775
00:52:56,802 --> 00:52:59,471
He was never able to serve
on the Supreme Court.
776
00:53:06,979 --> 00:53:09,773
[Mary] Two months
after Secretary Stanton passed away,
777
00:53:09,773 --> 00:53:13,151
the 15th Amendment
to the US Constitution was ratified.
778
00:53:13,819 --> 00:53:15,821
It guarantees US citizens,
779
00:53:15,821 --> 00:53:19,783
regardless of previous enslavement
or race, the right to vote.
780
00:53:27,916 --> 00:53:30,919
[Stanton] We finish the work now.
We have to.