now, willie clark actually lived in the peterson house. he was a boarder, a soldier, and he had a room in the back on the first floor. on that morning, willie clark, like many in washington, was out and partying. he was celebrating the near end of the civil war. lee surrendered five days before. so, that night around 10:15 across the street, the president is shot. and soldiers carry the wounded president out, looked around where to bring him. a gentleman in the peterson house said bring him in here because there was an empty bedroom in the back. that was willie clark's bedroom. so they bring lincoln in there. lincoln dies there the next morning. willie clark comes back after lincoln's body is cleared out. and, essentially, you can only imagine the scene there. you are told, by the way, the president of the united states died in your bed last night. what would you do? sarah, do you think you would -- would you ever go into that room again? sarah jencks: you know, i can't imagine what willie clark must have been feeling. he was a young guy.

>> you know, i can't imagine what willie clark must have been feeling. he feels a young guy. he was a clerk at the war department. he was -- this was his room. this was the room he knew and this was his bed and head paid for the room. his response was he slept in the bed, and honestly, while we might have chosen not to do that, i think in other ways, it's understandable what he did. that was his home. so clark is not a famous name, but he guided the interpretation of the space his bedroom for the immediate aftermath because people came to visit it bothering him, knocking on his door, his room. >> so one of the items that we have here in the remembering lincoln collection is willie clark's letter to his sister, ida, back in massachusetts from a few days later. he wrote this, actually, on wednesday, april 19 th 1865, four days after lincoln's death, and this is the day of the big funeral in washington. he talks about his life in the previous few days since the president had died in his bed. he talks about souvenirs going in and out day and night for a relic. he was not blameles

willie clark and his business partner johnny peersol started deep city. label became a showcase for artists like betty wright, frank williams and the rocketeers. jobby and the dynamites. >> it is a very, very long list, an amazing list. >> it is about 1200. >> 1200 songs. >> it just flows. i'm like a song mechanic. you bring it to me. i'll help you fix it. >> william and his writing partner wrote such classics as "clean up woman" and "rocking chair." and willie and able. >> they had the unique sound. >> 50 years, 100 years from now, if you were to do an internet search and punch in the miami sound, your name is going to come up right away as principal creator of the miami sound. what were the distinctive features of the music you were making that separated it from motown, philadelphia, new york? >> the culture was a mixture of bahamian, jamaican, and people came down from georgia and alabama, but that bahamian influence was dominant. >> right. >> we would have bands who would march from overtown all the way to liberty city and back in big parades. this in

the music, the original miami sound we're talking about, came from this man, willie clark and this place than this and we were on the other side with the record shop. >> now it looks like a nondescript barbecue joint, but back in 1963 it was the home of deep city records. ♪ wake up in the morning willie clark and his business partner johnny peersol started deep city. the label became a showcase for artists like betty wright, frank williams and the rocketeers. johnny kilns and the dynamites. everything you have produced, it is a very, very long list. an amazing list. >> it is about 1200. >> 1200 songs. >> it just flows. i'm like a song mechanic. you bring it to me. i'll help you fix it. >> willy and his writing partner wrote such classics as "clean up woman" and "rocking chair." it was my answer to motown. 50 years from now, 100 years from now, if you were to do an internet search and punch in the miami sound, your name is going to come up right away as principal creator of the miami sound. what were the distinctive features of the music you were making that separated it from motown, phil

the room was normally occupied by a union clerk named willie clark, who was out that night celebrating the winding down of the war. the bed frame here is six feet lincoln is 6'4". they could not remove the frames without collapsing the bed, so his torso will be propped up on pillows with his feet hanging out on the other corner. doctors monitoring his vital signs through the night. dr. leale is in that room the whole time. several doctors will come and go, including lincoln's personal physician, surgeon general barnes will also come. barnes will make an attempt with a probe to extract the bullet unsuccessfully from lincoln's head where it has lodged behind the right eye. the unsuccessful attempt may have hastened lincoln's death. at 7:22 the next morning lincoln will draw his last breath. we have the actual photo of the room, the bed, the bloodstained pillow, just hours after lincoln's carried out of the house in a makeshift coffin. lincoln is unconscious nine hours and then dead in the house about two hours before he is taken back to the white house. secretary of war stanton will laun

clark howard with the traps they need to watch out. >>> does the high-priced hardware live up to the hype? all that and more coming up on "the willis report" where consumers are our business. gerri: bill clinton, on the defense says he has no regrets for taking millions of dollars from foreign donors for the clinton's charitable foundation. the former president telling nbc's cynthia mcfaden, quote, there is no doubt in my mind we never done anything knowingly inappropriate in terms of taking money to influence any kind of american government policy that just hasn't happened. here to weigh in our political panel. "national review" editor rich lowery townhall.com he had toward katie pavlich, a fox news contributor. rich, i have to get your reaction to this comment. i found it so delicious and clintonian. >> you look at that sentence you really want to parse every single word. gerri: bring in the lawyers. >> what does he mean by knowingly? another thing comes from this interview, tremendous sense of self-pity. as though the whole world is out to get them and struggling to meet the bills and keep lights on in humble home somewhere and