annie seward, what is going on.ells stewart where the better miss. fanny tries to block him. he begins stabbing at secretary of state seward. the third blow slices open his cheek. the fourth blow, the only thing that prevented him from cutting the jugular was the jaw splint. seward's other son augustus, and a soldier assigned to help them, by the name of sergeant george robertson, start attacking and beating on powell who starts smashing at them with a knife. he realizes this is enough and runs out of the building. david harold runs out of the building with two horses. he hears the screaming and yelling, panics, and takes off. leaving powell's horse, and he does not know the city alone outside. powell comes outside the house and there is a messenger with the secretary of state. powell says i am a messenger. he stabs a man and winds up in the back, -- he stabs the man in the back, leaving the man permanently paralyzed. he yells i'm mad. he jumps on a horse and rides up with nowhere to go. fannie seward yells pap's de

once he gets into the room where seward is in bed, he has a bully knife and stabbed seward repeatedly. the neck brace it was wearing is what satan. -- the neck brace he was wearing is what saved him. altogether, about five people were assaulted. he flees the house and david harold gets spooked and runs off and leaves powell. how will does not know his way around the city and winds up wandering around and will wind up at the boardinghouse of mary surround -- surratt. looking suspicious, is taken in for questioning. the herndon house a block over to the east from ford's theatre is where the conspirators had their final meeting that evening at around 8:00 p.m. on the 14th, given their assignments. it is now where there is a jw marriott building. this over here is the national hotel. it no longer stands. it was torn down in 1942. that is where john wilkes booth stayed on a number of occasions. it is believed that is where he awoke that morning of the 14th. that is also where john wilkes was met on the number of occasions with john surratt and samuel mudd, other conspirators in the plot to

lincoln and seward assassinated. this is something to remember is that not all people in the united states were mourning at the time. some in the former confederacy who were mourning some in the union, rejoicing. a lot of -- a lot of factors that went into people's responses. this one shows this information is not simply an artifact of the age of twitter. many of you who might have been around on september 11 th 2001 may remember all of the rumors flying at the time. i was in pittsburgh in college, and i went to class that morning, after hearing radio on the shuttle to campus that i thought in addition to the twin towers having collapsed and the pentagon having had a plane crash into it that the national wall was on fire and the state department was bombed so a lot of news spread at the time. this story has a similar piece to had that as well. not only were they assassinated, by that point, people knew that likely seward would live but robert e. lee defrequenteated grant, when, in fact 12 days before this was printed

they were first at the home of secretary of state seward. they had heard the secretary of state had been stabbed to death in his bed, and he almost was killed. he survived the wounds. when they got to seward's mansion near the white house they heard that lincoln had been shot here at fd's theater so they rushed over here in a carriage. by the time they got here, thousands of people had gathered at the corner of 10th and f streets and the carriage couldn't push through the crowd. so there they were, the two most powerful members of the cabinet commanding the entire united states army and the navy had to disembark from their carriage and disappear into the mob and push their way through and come into this house. so stanton came through this door into this room and he saw mary lincoln here. and he decided he couldn't operate from here in front of the first lady. so stanton came through this room and into the back parlor here. which was the francis' bedroom. and it was here at a table in the center of this room that the secretary of war began th

he kind of for his way upstairs and started stabbing seward. seward had a metal brace on his neck and that effective blows. he was pretty badly stabbed and cut up. somebody interfered. everyone was screaming. powell rushed downstairs and on his way out stabbed seward's son. he expected someone to be waiting for him with his horse, but that person left. meanwhile, george went into the hotel where vice president johnson was. he was going to kill him but chickened out. he went to have a drink. he basically chickened out. he got hanged for it anyway. anyway harold who had left powell -- harold went southward with booze and they escaped all the way over to virginia, it took about 12 days. they were trapped in the barn of the garrett farm. the farm of richard garrett sort of like a tobacco shed. harold actually gave himself up. booth wanted to fight his way out. he wanted to fight his way out and maybe become a martyr. he was shot through the neck. he died a few hours later. the guy who shot him was kind of trigger happy, his name was corbett. he bec

secretary of state william seward and vice president andrew johnson.he also looks at a variety of larger assassination conspiracy theories. and talks about how lincoln's death altered american history. this event from the smithsonian associates is about two hours. prof. nurnberger: no event in american history that i can think of change the course of american history as much as a single event, as much as the assassination of abraham lincoln. maybe 9/11, maybe pearl harbor. but in terms of boom, one second, history changed -- abraham lincoln's plans for post-civil war america were to bring the southern states back into the union.

." ♪ >>> nestled at the base of majestic glaciers, the small coastal town of seward, alaska is knownor more than just breathtaking natural beauty. it's also home to the spring creek correctional facility, alaska's only maximum security prison. it's here that we encountered carl abel, one of the most memorable killers ever profiled on "lockup." it didn't take long for him to make clear his opinions of some of his fellow inmates. >> all of these inmates can say what they want to say. they're punks. people in control know they're punks. abul first came to spring creek in 2003, after he was convicted of murdering a co-worker. >> i caved his head in. caved it in totally. i think the biggest fragment of bone they found was a size of a half dollar. i probably got a little out of hand later on. i kept hanging out and beating on him some more. there was -- it was -- are you really interested in the gory stuff? i was interested in how the decomposition would be. it was pretty nasty. it was kind of twisted there. >> the raw interview footage goes on to reveal perhaps the most grisly aspect of a

you know false report that secretary state seward was assassinated. that was not true but he was injured. you see that throughout. this last one has that. many of the reports in the newspapers come from the ap, the associated press, which we still have today, and it was established in 1846, conglomerate of five newspapers pooling resources, the herald being one of them to get as much information from around the country as they pozbly can at any point in time rising to importance during the civil war and you can see it's right at the, you know, apex of its early significance here, and so a reporter named edd edd edd edd lorence is doing the reporting, so the reports coming from him, into the ap and to the herald: also, you see stan ten, the secretary of war giving his dispatches given in the paper as well. he would go to the war telegraph office and give information coming from the government and newspapers would report that as well. i don't know precisely what people's reaction was not being there, awebut certainly, there's reports in subszequent edit

as our crews found out at the spring creek correctional center in seward, alaska. >> slow down. slow down. slow down. >> on the floor over there we need cleanup. >> you really need to respond to me so i know you're all right. let's go a little bit more. okay. okay. >> joel brooks is doing 12 years for assault. his adversary, john slaku is serving a six-year sentence for sexual assault. our cameras were there when officers interrogated them about the fight. >> what was this all about? >> well, he's a rapist, and i was talking to the inmate, in the meal line about it with him. >> you're talking about his crime with another person. >> yeah, yeah. >> okay. >> and i was talking with another prisoner about him being a rapist and he came up to me and said you ain't [ bleep ] i said you're not. >> i told him to stop talking about me. i repeated it. he said what are you going to do? and i just repeated it again, stop talking about me. and then he walked up to me in my face, and said now what are you going to do? >> five minutes later, he rushed me -- >> don't come at me. >> well slammed

witnesses, to begin the manhunt, begin the investigation to see if other cabinet members aside from seward had been marked for death. and wells was here that night more as a mourner and witness for lincoln, rather than a person who was active in the investigation and the activities that night. wells found it hot and oppressive and humid that morning. he walked outside. a light rain had begun. he was astonished to find several thousand people keeping vigil in the streets outside. many of them were black. either freemen who had never been slaves, or freed slaves. men and women, gathering in silence. and wells was touched by that. the street was silent. by that point, there was no shouting, there was no screaming. a hushed crowd stood outside. they asked wells, how is the president? what was to happen? he could not answer them. he came back, and by 6:30 the morning, it was obvious that lincoln was not going to last much longer. the breathing became labored less frequent. so doctors fished pocket watches out of their suit coats because they wanted to mark the moment when abraham lincoln died.

folly, seward's folly the $67 million purchase of alaska. again, that is really quite incredible diplomacy and likewise the diplomacy of abraham lincoln's in helping to save our union men are flexing or not so fledgling, but early adulthood public was in dire straits and in severe danger of collapsing on itself. some pretty itself. some pretty good diplomacy was exerted in order to avoid countries like england coming in on the side of the confederacy when that was a real danger that particular time. so when people start telling you that the diplomacy you look at in the 19th century is about metternich and all those people answer to that is let's look at the diplomacy that we americans conducted ourselves during that century. the next thing i would like to make a few comments on is the issue of leadership. niemi leadership our country are really that time of post- civil war after we averted the catastrophe of the union being divided and we had, by the way, a president who was really committed to the growth and very interested in our expansion

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officer david porter, president lincoln, secretary of the navy gideon welles secretary of state william seward, general george mcclellan, secretary of war edwin stanton. they begin to talk about this need to seize new orleans. a plan that assault. predominately, they plan to assault fort saint philip and fort jackson. the problem is these are yankees from the north and they do not know those forts. someone says there's a young lieutenant in washington right now who knows everything about this two forts. so the call goes out to find weitzel and bring him right away. he shows up with these the wigs -- bigwigs of the federal government. they ask what he knows, and he asks what they need to know. he knows exactly how to take the two forts because he knows their weaknesses, so they make weitzel the chief engineer of the mission against new orleans. this twentysomething has the key to unlock the two forts, if you will. a large contingent of ships and the fleet sales around the tip of florida to a staging area just off the coast of new orleans. weitzel tells admiral farragut how to capture the forts.

just south of where fillmore was growing up, william seward, one of the most anti-slavery movement, saidin starting his career, just down the road frederick douglass will live in rochester, new york. with all of this anti-slavery movement going on, neither of the fillmore's ever lift a finger to eight slavery. i never show and he to slavery at all. they show no sympathy to blacks. when fillmore is running for vice president, someone accuses them of helping slaves escape, and in a letter that is so shocking i would not say it in the year, he simply says incredibly horrible things about black people. why would i ever lift my finger to help them? >> did abigail's love of books cause any trends in education or library expansion? >> to my knowledge, no. but you would have to look for the long-term. they did not have the instantaneous communications. her books were not going to set off a trend in the way modern communications do. i think what we are beginning to see as we go into the second half of the 19th century, is more and more work for middle-class women in teaching and so forth. obvious