boston corbett decides he s going to take a shot at booth. and he wants to shoot him in the head, just like booth shot lincoln in the head. only, he misses and nails him in the throat, and that severs booth s spine. put him down over there. is he dead? the day is ours. the bloody dog is dead. let us strive to finish the work we are in. one way or another, the south will have its retribution. useless. useless. paralyzed and bleeding from the neck, booth dies the next morning. his corpse is unceremoniously shipped to washington for burial, as the body of abraham lincoln makes a final hero s journey. the nation mourned dramatically for several weeks.
give me that. i saw him through the barn planks. he claimed he was raising his rifle against us. sergeant boston corbett shot him. tom hanks: in washington, lewis powell and george atzerodt will soon be joined by david herold, and all of them will be held in custody aboard the ironclad monitors uss saugus and uss montauk. and tomorrow, their photographs will be taken and the public will see, for the first time, the faces of the men who conspired to decapitate the government of the united states. now, it is the morning of april 26th. and john wilkes booth has only hours to live.
doherty: nah, corbett did. give me that. i saw him through the barn planks. he claimed he was raising his rifle against us. sergeant boston corbett shot him. tom hanks: in washington, lewis powell and george atzerodt will soon be joined by david herold, and all of them will be held in custody aboard the ironclad monitors uss saugus and uss montauk. and tomorrow, their photographs will be taken and the public will see, for the first time, the faces of the men who conspired to decapitate the government of the united states. now, it is the morning of april 26th. and john wilkes booth has only hours to live.
doherty: nah, corbett did. give me that. i saw him through the barn planks. he claimed he was raising his rifle against us. sergeant boston corbett shot him. tom hanks: in washington, lewis powell and george atzerodt will soon be joined by david herold, and all of them will be held in custody aboard the ironclad monitors uss saugus and uss montauk. and tomorrow, their photographs will be taken and the public will see, for the first time, the faces of the men who conspired to decapitate the government of the united states. now, it is the morning of april 26th. and john wilkes booth has only hours to live.
doherty: nah, corbett did. give me that. i saw him through the barn planks. he claimed he was raising his rifle against us. sergeant boston corbett shot him. tom hanks: in washington, lewis powell and george atzerodt will soon be joined by david herold, and all of them will be held in custody aboard the ironclad monitors uss saugus and uss montauk. and tomorrow, their photographs will be taken and the public will see, for the first time, the faces of the men who conspired to decapitate the government of the united states. now, it is the morning of april 26th. and john wilkes booth has only hours to live.