then as john wilkes booth made his way further he says to her we will visit the homeland. that hangs in the air then john wilkes booth makes further progress in to the truth than finally as the drama increases and the play continues he says we will visit the holy land to see the places hallowed by a the footsteps of the savior. then just before john wilkes booth done shot interest rate he says there is no place i so much desire to see as jerusalem. bear in mind he never joined a church. as he says these words it is on good friday he was known for a vast sense of humor he never made it a clear affirmation of faith in jesus christ by definition of christianity and he was suspicious of preachers for a good portion of his life for seven years he was the village atheist regime left. there is not any part that until the last moments of his life in his police statements would be to visit the holy land we did not know he did not want to go to spring period but the holy land or considered jesus his savior. this is the problem for those who try to trap him because almost all of the

and that then hangs in the air, and john wilkes booth, you can see the film playing in my brain, john wilkes booth makes further progress into the booth. and then finally towards the, as the drama increases and the play is going on on the stage below, lincoln says we will visit the holy land and see those places hallowed by the footsteps of the savior. and then just before john wilkes booth's derringer ball enters his brain, lincoln is heard to say, "there is no place i so much desire to see as jerusalem." now, i want you to bear in mind that abraham lincoln never joined a church. as he says these words, he's in a bawdy play on good friday. he was known for a crass sense of humor. he never made any kind of clear affirmation of faith in jesus christ, the central issue of whether you're a christian or not by definition of christianity. he was suspicious of preachers for a good portion of his life. as i'll share in a moment during some years in his life, he was the village atheist where he lived. there's not anything that would lead us to conclude that abraham lincoln, at least as far as

you know john wilkes booth killed abraham lincoln. how could my other books surprise you with that information? i discovered readers seem to like telling the tale. tell the story as it happened, as though people don't know the ending, week by week, hour by hour, day by day, minute by minute or in the case of bill street in front of the texas book depository second by second and don't tell readers anything a person living at the time wouldn't have known before it happened and the manhunt for john wilkes booth. i don't want you to know what is going to happen on day 10. the story of the kennedy assassination when i tell you about lee harvey oswald seven months before president kennedy assassinating an army general with a rifle i don't want you to know he's going to kill president kennedy. another way is through reports of what happened through the eyes that saw it. there is incredible newspaper and television and radio coverage that came out of the kennedy assassination. it is almost as though shakespeare was providing the lines to thes

i got a phone call from a lawyer for john wilkes booth's kids.he story is that john wilkes booth did not die in a barn in maryland, he lived, and escaped. he's not the one in the coffin. do you want to hear the story, brad. "yes, i want to hear the story." we show people the while. why - because you can see a key detail. it's not signed. that's where you say, "is the story true or not." >> there's attempts by dna to determine whether it was booth or not. they have been rebusted by judges. exumation of his brother to get the dna. >> i held john wilkes booth's bops in my hand -- bones in my hand. you can do the dna test and match it on his brother who was there. the government says no. you have to stop and say, "why not say yes?" >> why do we care so much about the theories, and why do people want to believe them? >> people want to believe them to make sense of the universe. whether it's after a terrorist attack or the boston bombings, whatever it might be. whether it's jfk or 1865 abraham lincoln dying, these are moments where parts of our psyches

ks. >> which is the worst fake name for a fake identity. >> who moved to india and left money to john wilkesth kids. >> a couple of years ago i get a phone call from a lawyer saying i represent the family of john wilkes booth and they have a story. the story was he did not die in a barn in maryland. he lived, escaped and went tonne have a great life and he's not the one in the coffin, do you want to hear our story? yes. what we did in the book is show people the will. you can read where he left the money to, but see a key detail. it's not signed. that's where you say, "is the story true?" >> there has been attempts by dna to determine whether it was booth or not. those attempts have been rebusted by judges. exclamations by his brother. >> i healed john booth's bones in my hand. you can do the dna test and match on his brother. the government says, "no." you have to stop and say, "why not just say yes? ". >> why do we care so much about the theories, and why do you think people want to believe? >> i think we want to believe these things to make sense of universe. it's no surprise whether it's

this is the letter john wilkes booth wrote after he shot abraham lincoln.mine it yourself. >> there's a thrill to that. >> the goal is to make history come alive to people. it's not a bunch of dates and facts. it's a select process. it chooses every single one of us. the question is, do you hear the call. >> before we get into the conspiracies, i have to ask you what's going on today. we are living history. in washington, so many things going on with the shutdown and the debt ceiling. >> listen, when you have crazy, you are going to have a conspiracy theory. they go hand in hand. there's nothing crazier than the government. conspiracies come about when we are scared at a people. when america gets scared, we start pointing fingers, we start fighting. it's when they are born. >> you want an answer. >> we want an answer. you feel like the world is about to end. wouldn't it be easier to blame it on something. >> let's start with the kennedy assassination. for some reason, that fascinates everybody. >> you know why it fascinates us? john f. kennedy isn't the onl

. >> coming up did john wilkes booth live another 40 years after assassinating abraham lincoln. run down great conspiracy theories next. >> americans are fas nated by conspiracy theories, we are a month away from the john f kennedy assassination and decades away from the roswell nearies. the book "history decoded," 10 greatest conspiracy brings you the facts and theories on fascinating mist ris. take a look at the book's trailer. yes, the book has a trailer. >> "history decoded" - counting down the top 10 greatest conspiracy throughout history. a chance to go deeper into the greater mist ris. >> what if i told you after murdering president abe lincoln, the most famous assassin lived for 40 years. fort knox is empty. 40 million americans have seen or know someone who has seen a ufo. >> introducing a new investigation into the truth behind the kennedy assassination. >> i can feel it. >> brad meltzer wrote the book, and host of "decoded." good to see you. you've made a career writing novels about conspiracy nearies, this was ipp spired going back to something that happened in 11th

type one's are political assassins, like john wilkes booth. type 2's are egocentrics looking for simple recognition type 3's are psychopaths, cold-blooded killers who leave far messier scenes. and type 4, our unsub, suffers from a major mental disorder and is frequently delusional. the closer we come to figuring out that delusion, the closer we'll get to finding the unsub. what's he going to be doing until we do? finding other victims. excuse me. [knocks on door] hi. is there a detective kim here? right here. you're heading the investigation into the natalie ryan murder? yes. um... my--i have a client. she's, uh... is there another place we can be private? we're all working this murder. well, um... she received a note, my client did, and she freaked out. i told her not to worry about it. where is the note? where's your client? she's waiting in the other room. reid, let's go. lila. hi. hotch: how well did you know natalie ryan? we spoke when we saw each other in public, but we were never friends. how about wally melman? what? wally melman. he's

they looked a like. >> and john wilkes booth was his other identity. e amazing part of the story is we actually found the will that he wrote. when you pull it out of the book, you see it's not signed. wait a minute this story can't be true. but the 91-year-old woman who came to us and said it was a true story. why are you telling this story now? i'm going to die soon and i want the truth to come out. >> you say how can you tell when someone is telling the truth. >> no one lies on the death bed. no one lies on their death bed. >> you've given your father something to do. "history decoded" goes on sale on tuesday. >>> anna faris tells us why her >>> "mom" is the newest sit-com out, and it is about a woman who is making up with her past and is also a recovering addict. >> do you have bathroom? >> we don't have a bathroom. >> come on help me out. >> it is not for public use. >> look, i'm in a hurry, and i have to get to school, can't you make an exception. >> i don't make the rules. >> no, but you have a brain and you could help me help my little boy put on

. >> john wilkes' family actually contacted you. >> this is where the book started.id john wilkes booth supposedly died 12 days after he shot abraham lincoln. and they said, you know what? he didn't die. do you want to hear who's in the coffin? >> you get to see the wanted poster. he was tired of getting ties for christmas and i thought i'm going to get him a book he can read and enjoy. >> two men, john boyd, their names are similar. >> and john bchlt wilkes. >> if your name is john wilkes booth and you're secret john boyd, you're bad at picking secret identities. we found the will he wrote. when you pull it out of the book, it was not signed. but the 91-year-old came to us, we said, why are you going to tell the story now? >> she said i'm going to die soon and i want -- >> how can you tell when it's the truth? the deathbed confession. >> no one lies on their death bed. >> you've given your father-in-law something to do on christmas real estate than a tie. >>> anna "i'm terry mcauliffe, candidate for governor, and i sponsored this ad." "i'm very troubled by ken cucci

because of his important role as deputy president, if you will, that john wilkes booth targeted seward for assassination in april 1865 that he killed lincoln. he was in some respects a very easy target that night. he had been injured in a carriage accident two weeks prior and the assassins knew exactly where to find him. the assassin managed to get into his bedroom. he had a pistol in one hand and an 8-inch knife in the collections in california in the other. he had already used that nearly to death outside of seward store. but the night wasn't very good working order. he pressed seward down with the other slashed his face and neck. in one sense he missed. he didn't sever the arteries but he succeeded quite well. you see the picture of him after the assassination attempt and he was horribly disfigured and bled copiously. and it continues to serve as our secretary of state through controversial administration almost all of you know that he was mocked and it was called seward's five. i'm here to tell you that that is a met. dozens or hundreds of newspapers after the treaty was signed whi

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and so i certainly hope just as with my books about the lincoln assassination and john wilkes-booth by the time young adults and audiences get to these books you will realize that heroes are not john wilkes-booth racist murderer who killed one of the best american presidents ever and one of the greatest americans of all time. the heroes are not the cypher man lee harvey oswald. the heroes of my books and these two books are certainly john kennedy jacqueline kennedy and the story they wrote from the brief time from january 20, 1961 until november 22, 1963. so with that i thank you and you can ask some questions if you like. [applause] there is a microphone in the back of the room. please go to that microphone. just tip it towards you. >> can you hear me? >> yes, i can hear you fine. >> the security surrounding kennedy of course gets a lot of attention with conspiracy theories. was that unusual for the time or was it typical of dallas? a few days later obviously security is surrounding oswald was poor enough to let ruby near him. i'm just wondering at what point did they start learning a

the flap and out comes the ed, so you get the lincoln assassination, here's the real letter that john wilkesh left behind. >> i got the georgia geyser. >> let's talk about this. >> america's stonehenge. there's also map here. >> in georgia right now, a guy years ago, builds this amazing little thing that looks like an american stonehenge. i thing that's so amazing a about it, where it's located they think it's a safe zone, when the big earthquake happen in california, georgia this this spot is going to be what's safe. it's right there now today. >> they were built in 1980. >> by a guy who said no one can know my real identity. a secret society. >> i loved what you said. i'm not going to be a spoiler here. >> you'll see, we look at this and you know, this isn't something from 1865 with abraham lincoln. this is today in georgia. >> the spear of destiny? >> one of my favorite ones in there truly. >> pull your cards out. so, this one is the spear that pierces christ's side pl napoleon took power because he chased the spear. the other person who chased the spear was adolf hitler. what you have th

john wilkes booth was an actor. the party of slavery, the kkk, those weren't republicans. black panthers, weather underground, yun bomber, the left is the home not of the brave but of the depraved. >> those a lot of my friends you're talking about. this is where i disagree with cheney. the idea that somehow i want to see where it is that barack obama has done damage to the united states overseas. where? >> did you see the whole thing about the saudis over the weekend? >> the kingdom in saudi arabia. >> this is not about foreign policy. this is about attacking the right. how about the middle east? >> what was he going to do about that? he's the one that stood up to syria. >> he stood up to syria? >> everybody else whimped out. >> john boehner defended him. >> boehner was there. >> i don't know how it happens that you get me off track so often. tell me about what you think of extremism and what do you think about that whole thing? >> i love the vice president using their own words against them. that was fantastic. he actually quoted barack obama the senator, we're here to fu

in this one john wilkes booth family approached my lawyer and said he did not die in a barn after heled abraham lincoln. he lived many years later. would you like to hear our story. we didn't want to count on the top-ten conspiracies. we wanted to give people the real evidence. in this case, when you open the book -- here's the book. you open it up and you get to pull out, this is the actual letter that john w i lk he s booth left behind after he shot -- john wilk he s booth left behind after he shot lincoln. >> the other thing you do, you research. for example, area 51, inside rosswell. u.f.o. or not? you end the story with jimmy carter, ronald reagan, two of the people who say they saw u.f.o.'s in their lifetime? >> it is easy to find that crazy person in the middle of nowhere who said i was abducted. i don't believe that person. i want the truth. tell me what really happen. we give you in the book the rosswell redacted report the government first came out with. you get to see yourself. >> you -- there is a questionnaire? >> the government used to fill out a form and say did you se

he wrote about how john wilkes booth was right, he of course assassinated abraham lincoln.ybody started to learn about what he used to do before he was working for rand paul, he tried to dismiss his confederate leanings as a youthful indiscretion, something that was goldman's. in fact, less than a year before rand paul had hired him, he was still writing about how he supported the idea of how the old confederacy was rising again, southern secession today. eventually rand paul did finally get too embarrassed about it, and he had to go. but he held on for a long time defending him before he had to cut him off. right now we are at a moment in republican politics of deep turmoil. in one specific part of the republican party, it's not what it is for the rest of the country. in one specific part, the problem is not that we just had a shut down. the problem is that it ended and we did not hit the debt ceiling. that is the problem. their problem is that anybody who voted to end the shut down and not hit the debt ceiling is obviously a trader who needs to be run out of the party. th

here is a real letter that john wilkes booth's left behind after he shot a ramekin.n you will see the form the government wants you to fill out when you see a ufo. which one do you have there? >> the stock about that one. lou: americas stonehenge. there is a map. >> so right now years ago i guy builds this amazing middle finger of looks like an american stonehenge. the thing that is so amazing about it is that where it is located they think is a safe zone. when the big earthquake happens in california and florida fall into the ocean, georgia in this spot will be what is safe. i love the fact that this mystery is out there. is that there not today. lou: 1980. >> and arce christian said one thing, no one can ever know my real identity. and it's a code for rosicrucian. rosicrucian is a secret, agency chris society. lou: i love what you said about it. >> but we look at this. th is from 1865 with abraham lincoln. this is today in georgia and no one knows why. lou: this pier of destiny. >> one of my favorite ones, charlie. i was going to say, pull your cards out. this one

he wrote about john wilkes booth was right. he of course assassinated abraham lincoln.paul hired this guy as a senior staffer in his senate office. when everybody started to learn about what this guy used to do before he was working for rand paul, he initially tried to dismiss the con fed ratd leanings as something that was old news. less than a year before rand paul hired him the dude was still writing about how he still supported the idea of the old confederacy rising up again. southern secession today. eventually rand paul did finally get too embarrassed about the whole thing and the staffer had to go, but rand paul held on for a long time defending the guy before he had to finally cut him loose. right now we are at a moment in republican politics of deep turmoil. if one specific part of the party the turmoil is not what it is for the rest of the country. the problem is not that we just had a government shutdown. the problem is that the shutdown ended and we did not hit the debt ceiling. that's the problem. their problem is anybody who voted to end the shutdown and n

i remember reading those headlines president shot, john wilkes booth the actors the assassin. .. read this story hundreds of times as a boy wanting to know what happened on the night of april 14, 1965. years later when i was working on my book manhunt a great find i was able to acquire from my collection and original set of 100 issues from the "chicago tribune" from the spring and summer of 1865 that covered not only the end of the war the assassination the manhunt the trial of the conspirators so years later after i was exposed to that as a boy i actually had in my hands and entire original issue of the "chicago tribune" april 15, 1865 and is one of my treasured possessions. i was exposed to other stories attaboy too. my grandmother worked for chicago newspapers. the very tail end of that era. the sun-times, the sun-times and those reporters hung out at bars. they dress like cops. they acted like a man pretended to be them. it's just just an arab wild storytelling and i remember once when i was six my grandmother told me this. she loved to tell me while terrifying stories preach

butch cassidy was in killed billy the kid wasn't killed john wilkes-booth wasn't killed.nd in the photographs he suffered two wounds in the civil war to his lungs and those scars are very visible in the photographs. frank's family identified him as jesse james so i mean there is no question that jesse was killed. there was more than just dalton. there were several impostors that claimed to be jesse over the years. in fact there were lawsuits by the james family suing individuals who claimed to be jesse james. it's these cases that led to the dna examination several years ago in the 1990s where they exempt jesse's body and carney. the family wanted to end this once and for all but it didn't. it's never going to end no matter how much evidence. >> also i am sure you visited northfield and the little museum they have their. i was there a year ago and it's really quite interesting. >> it's spectacular. it's been restored to 1876 the way it was at the time of the robbery. there were furnishings that were there at the time and every september -- i was a fair couple of weeks ago

i remember reading those headlines president shot, john wilkes booth the actors the assassin. .. i must have read this story hundreds of times as a boy wanting to know what happened on the night of april 14, 1965. years later when i was working on my book manhunt a great find i was able to acquire from my collection and original set of 100 issues from the "chicago tribune" from the spring and summer of 1865 that covered not only the end of the war the assassination the manhunt the trial of the conspirators so years later after i was exposed to that as a boy i actually had in my hands and entire original issue of the "chicago tribune" april 15, 1865 and is one of my treasured possessions. i was exposed to other stories attaboy too. my grandmother worked for chicago newspapers. the very tail end of that era. the sun-times, the sun-times and those reporters hung out at bars. they dress like cops. they acted like a man pretended to be them. it's just just an arab wild storytelling and i remember once when i was six my grandmother told me this. she loved to tell me while terrifying st