john wilkes booth.ate and well-admired man on the path to become one of the greatest actors of his time is reduced by history to a two-dimensional skround rel and dismissed as a madman. >> it's all right. for god's sakes, save the fight. >> mr. booth. >> why mr. mccollum. >> mr. booth, i'm so very sorry. >> come, come, old fellow. you look as if you had lost the blood. not another word. now if you had got my eye, that would have been bad. but you didn't. and it was -- well, it was splendid! >> that is john wilkes booth. bosh and raised in maryland, a border state, a slave state that did not secede from the union. john wilkes booth is also a southern zealot whose hatred of abraham lincoln is nothing less than fanatical. in october of 1864, booth makes contact with a confederate secret service and shortly after lincoln's re-election, he determines to kidnap the president. he stops in philadelphia to visit his sister aja and there he writes a letter. >> to whom it may concern, right or wrong, god judge me,

dugard finds out that john wilkes booth was engrajed to louisy hale.t everybody doesn't know is that the sometime they are engaged lucy hale was stepping out on booth with robert todd lincoln, abraham's son. we believe that john wilkes booth found out about that and that drove some of his hatred toward the now that i have never seen it before. i think it's around some place but dugard took it out. >> had you read all of these some of these more popular lincoln books? >> some of them. but i wanted to start on a clean slate. i had a vision here of telling americans exactly hot man was and why he was a tremendous leader. that's my vision. i didn't want to get polluted by a bunch of different things. certainly i have read a lot about him. i have a history degree and former history teacher. what i have learned writing and researching this book it's amazing. >> one of the reasons you say you wrote this is because he was one of the last great leaders in the country and that we need somebody like that. >> president lincoln was the greatest president and now we

>> he was assassinated by john wilkes booth at some theater. >> who shot lincoln? >> ruth. >> not ruth. >> babe ruth. >> you mean that's the same guy? >> george booth. >> booth. is it booth? >> they stole his body. >> they stole his body. >> lincoln's body. >> they did? >> where did they take it? >> it's an unsolved mystery no? >> you can count on him to bring good humor every time. >> panic on the line in the middle of an armed standoff with police. >> they think they are invincible with the face shot. >> the strange call from a hostage maker. >> how to avoid the third crisis if you are taking you beer tonightuber tonight. >> who do you think is the most charitable celebrity? ♪ >> welcome back to "fox & friends first". a nationwide epidemic. a deadly outbreak claiming the lives of 16 children. the cdc sounding the alarm of a major health crisis after widespread cases of the h3 n 2 spreads. this year's vaccine was developed h3 n 2 began to mutate. it is not as effective as it could be. doctors say you should get a flu shot because some protection is better than non

. >> john wilkes booth. i think it's part of his tissue from the neck area. >> total douche. >> you can say it here because it's a medical museum. we have the brain here, the good chunk of the brain in the other one. we have a president that was assassinat assassinated, president garfield. it was charles katow. he was a couple tacos shy of a taco platter. a couple elephants shy of a herd, is that better? it took garfield 80 days to die. he lingered. we think now that it was the massive infection of all these doctors sticking their unwashed hands and their unwashed instruments into the president over and over again. >> this was 1880? '81? >> '81. they thought you could be fed recollect rectally so they gave him beef broth enemas. >> imagine if public service announcements were back in the 1880s. >> hello. i'm mike row. >> i'm anna doti. >> we're here to talk about an important problem. >> beef broth enemas. >> this is a tragedy and it needs to stop. man and women following the best advice of medical professio

. >> john wilkes booth. >> he's a fay mouz criminal. >> i have no idea who that is. >> lee harvey oswald>> lee harvey oswald. bad guy. >> bad guy? >> now where did lee harvey hoz walled shoot him? >> in dallas. >> wasn't it like chicago. >> pittsburgh? >> he shot him on the grassy -- >> i feel so dumb right now. >> that is correct. >> the grassy knoll. >> do you think he killed the president. >> i don't know, we live in such a time where there's so much different theories. >> i don't believe the conspiracy theories, no. >> you never know what really happened, man. you never know. >> who's this guy? >> that's my dad. >> somebody ought to belt you in the mouth. >> linden johnson? >> bush? >> not a bush. you don't know? >> i think i'm too young. >> is he on fox news? >> he is on fox news. >> this is still -- >> oh, neil? >> nobody, close. >> will you get serious. >> o'reilly. bill o'reilly. host of fox news o'reilly factor. >> very good. >> he has a nice tie in that picture, actually. >> excel let me threads. >> he's been number one for over a decade. you're obviously a huge fan. >> a congr

. >> that you are looking at canada, john wilkes booth.clearly assassinating lincoln wasn't going to do any good. it was an act of revenge. but they could dismiss as criminal acts and not carry it out by a coherent political organization. >> so our assassinations have no plan plans of our enemies focused, is that the lesson that you are telling us? >> 1989 this year he ends in the united states agreed on the new president. new president. they were going to close down what was has the law at the time. they were going to more or less slow down and stop the war in the south. >> it's where they put explosives in the charge in a close down candy store and the president's convoy was going down and that was the end of any talk about closing hezbollah down or any talk of restoring the lebanese state. >> he didn't have a grievance against the president meant that they felt in their interest we are talking about their interests, not ours they felt it was a danger to what they were doing and that is the islamic resistance in the south. he did have a

. >> that you are looking at canada, john wilkes booth.clearly assassinating lincoln wasn't going to do any good. it was an act of revenge. but they could dismiss as criminal acts and not carry it out by a coherent political organization. >> so our assassinations have no plan plans of our enemies focused, is that the lesson that you are telling us? >> 1989 this year he ends in the united states agreed on the new president. new president. they were going to close down what was has the law at the time. they were going to more or less slow down and stop the war in the south. >> it's where they put explosives in the charge in a close down candy store and the president's convoy was going down and that was the end of any talk about closing hezbollah down or any talk of restoring the lebanese state. >> he didn't have a grievance against the president meant that they felt in their interest we are talking about their interests, not ours they felt it was a danger to what they were doing and that is the islamic resistance in the south. he did have a

>> he was assassinated by john wilkes booth at the theater. >> who shot lincoln? >> ruth. >> ruth?is it booth? >> have they stole his body? >> they stole whose body? >> lincoln's body. no? >> they did? >> yeah. >> where did they take? >> it's an unsolved mystery no? >> she's partially right. they had to move his body. they moved him around too much. just so sad. but jesse had -- it's new york city. he went to union square. >> yeah. that was cute. >>> coming up, an incredible story of an american p.o.w. tortured during world war ii. but some people might never get to see it. colonel ollie north is here next on why that's a really awful idea. >>> and do you want to make a new year's resolution that will actually work and make your life better? dr. keith ablow says it's as simple as reading one of three books. he's going to tell us about it and explain coming up. ♪ ♪ when it comes to good nutrition...i'm no expert. that would be my daughter -- hi dad. she's a dietitian. and back when i wasn't eating right, she got me drinking boost. it's got a great taste and it helps give me the nutr