matthew brady. brady by this time, we think he was actually suffering with degenerative sight problem so he wasn't able to do work behind the camera anymore, but that's okay. he's such a celebrity by this time that his name was synonymous with photography. i'm going to have my brady made. that's how popular and well known he was before the war. he's capitalizing on that and puts himself in the image. if you don't believe me there he is. it's like the where's waldo of the civil war. he just loves to put himself in the image. he has this ridiculous tall hat and that pointy beard and the long black coat. we will see him again, but capital square was just and is a photographic mecca. you can just roll around there and ten feet from each other different shooting locations. and of course you have to take a picture of the governor's mansion looking down that avenue of trees. they're just starting to come into bloom. this one was a bit of a trick. look there he is. this one there's so much to like. here we h

matthew brady. brady by this time, we think he was suffering from a degenerative sight problem, but that is ok. his name was synonymous with photography. you would actually say, i'm going to have my brady made. i give a good interpretive talk folks, but i don't pick you up or say, i'm going to do a gorman. -- i don't think you're ever going to say, i'm going to do a gorman. it is like the where's waldo of the civil war. he loves to put himself in the image. it becomes fun to pick him out. the long, black coat. we will see him again. but capital square was and is a photographic mecca. of course, you have to take a picture of the governor's mansion. look at that. the trees are starting to come into bloom. well this one is a bit of a trick, but there he is. this one, there is so much to like. gardner's crew shooting towards old city hall. you see a crowd of union soldiers resting in the trees. here they all are. hanging out, chilling out. what is going on here? two pantless yankees running round capita

if matthew brady is photographing you behind your franklin street home, it's over. this is the general working with with constructed him. it's going to go around the world. he'd sit there with his son and staff officers and what is interesting about this, well, it's funny. every guy knows white socks black shoes. don't do it. that's probably why in the margin over here the photographer scratched don't use. look at them constructing that image together. the general doesn't look particularly good in this one so don't use it. let's stand him up and get one that's even better. not quite there though, is it? mover, sir thank you. just so your head is right in the middle of that cross. the image that's gone around the world. even this has a little forensic secret. the devil is in the details. some angry union soldiers scratched in the brick there with a chalk or knife, devil. this photograph was made on april 20th. you don't think there was some union soldiers in town that felt that way afterbout lee. sure. remember 9/11. fearful, scared, same thing. that's what lee and b

matthew brady went inside ford's theater into the number of photographs. people took photographs of the stable where booth kept his horses. they photographed other places associated with the assassination, but for some reason photographers did not set up their cameras in front of the peterson house and take photos after lincoln died. it's a bit of a historical mystery. i'd look for decades to find photographs taken of the peterson house shortly after lincoln died, but haven't found any and no when know of has found any. just one of the lingering mysteries of the assassination. private william clark came back the next day, the soldier who lived in this room. it was out all night celebrating the union did. that night, he slept in the very bed in which abraham lincoln died. he wrote a letter to relative saying i'm sleeping in the bed where the president died, the same coverlet that covered his body, now covers me. strangers, and offer money to come and view the room. if you don't watch them, they try to steal things. they try to steal little bits of cloth, th

matthew brady went inside ford's theater and took a number of photographs. people took photographs of the stable where booth kept his horses. they photographed other places associated with the assassination, but for some reason, photographers did not set up their cameras outside of the best in front of them -- in front of the petersen house and take photos the day after, the week after. it is a bit of a historical mystery. i have looked for decades to find period photographs taken of the petersen house shortly after lincoln died. but haven't found any. no one i know has found any. just one of the lingering mysteries of the assassination. interestingly, private william clark came back the next day the soldier who lived in this room. he was out all night celebrating the union victory. and that night, he slept in the very bed in which abraham lincoln died. he wrote a letter to relatives saying well, i am sleeping in , the bed where the president died. the same coverlet that covered his body now covers me. strangers come, they bed to see the mesh begged to see t

this is the exact pro fail face fog your right taken in 1864, not by matthew brady himself but one ofs. brady had a guy named alexander gardner, an immigrant from scotland he took that famous picture of lincoln sharing straight at the camera, right at you. it's the only one of the roughly 120 photographs of lincoln in which he's looking straight at you. but also the old $5 $5 bill photograph. everyone recognizes that picture of lincoln. his son said that was the most satisfactory portrait of his father. and the collection that yale just bought has that glass negative. >> now our picture of the day. blue skies fireworks and an american flag opening day of major league baseball season in philadelphia and 13 other cities take a look at this. the empire state building. in honor of opening day it has rotating lights with all the dollars of teams in major league baseball. that's our program. thanks for watching. i'm john seigenthaler. i'll see you back here tomorrow night. the news continues next with antonio mora. >> beyond inhumane. thousands of refugees trapped in a war zone by i.s.i.l.

i think she looks great, strong capable face, but she destroyed a whole series of photos that matthew brady took of her during the war so i don't know if that is an attempt maybe to make herself look a little more appealing, a little more attractive. in her later life, she became enormously effective at self-publicity, she absolutely understood the value of publicity and when she was starting the red cross, needed publicity and positive publicity particularly what she was doing was so unorthodox for a woman. and and you know, one of the things that really distinguishes clara barton also is she was famous for 50 years of her life. 50 years is a very, very long time. robert e. lee, for instance, was famous for four years and a few years after the war. most people have a much smaller time span of celebrity. 50 years you have got to maintain an image pretty robustly. so, i can't really answer that. i know she was vain. she dyed her hair. susan b anthony taught her to dye her hair. she dyed her hair, rubbed this stuff, lanolin on her face and apparently looked years younger than her age, but she

i think she looks great, strong capable face, but she destroyed a whole series of photos that matthew brady took of her during the war so i don't know if that is an attempt maybe to make herself look a little more appealing, a little more attractive. in her later life, she became enormously effective at self-publicity, she absolutely understood the value of publicity and when she was starting the red cross, needed publicity and positive publicity particularly what she was doing was so unorthodox for a woman. and and you know, one of the things that really distinguishes clara barton also is she was famous for 50 years of her life. 50 years is a very, very long time. robert e. lee, for instance, was famous for four years and a few years after the war. most people have a much smaller time span of celebrity. 50 years you have got to maintain an image pretty robustly. so, i can't really answer that. i know she was vain. she dyed her hair. susan b anthony taught her to dye her hair. she dyed her hair, rubbed this stuff, lanolin on her face and apparently looked years younger than her age, but she

think people would find sophisticated enough to be the president are smart enough that he had matthew brady a famous photographer at the time take his photograph. they would take head shots of people in this relatively new situation called photography that he realized when he saw lincoln he was not a good-looking man. he showed up in wrinkled clothes. his eyes were sunken, his eyes were obvious. so you could still see the picture was taken before the game and cooper union which would be important in the campaign and you can see the photograph. what he did is have a full length picture of lincoln so you couldn't see the close-up of how he looked at his facial features and so on. he put his hand on the table to give a sort of area image. that was used for many years after that as the president's official photograph in many ways the photograph was actually retouched because it was so famous and after he died is when his celebrity really triggered. after his assassination, what was happening then is he was becoming a feature of almost spiritual importance particularly in the african-american co