after the assassination of abraham lincoln, lived a happy and free man, a free man, at least? if it were possible you wouldn t have all his family members on national television saying my family told me a secret or i believe it, and what we have to realize here, this is one of the greatest stories in all of american history. this isn t just a conspiracy theory. this isn t some dreamed up idea. you saw the clip from dakota that we haired on history channel this week, and you see a family member telling me my family told me a secret and the secret is john wilkes booth lived and you can t tell anybody. we all have our family secrets, not like that one, and you realize this is changing history if this happens. this is rewriting the history books, and to me that is absolutely as lois said so well, that is a question that is worth asking. all right. it s a question that s worth asking. your episode aired last thursday on history channel. brad meltzer of brad meltzer s decoded, thanks f
buried in john wilkes grave in baltimore. to explain it all. brad meltser is here, hosts the history channel s brad meltzer decoded which just aired an episode on john wilks booth and joining us from rhode island is a descendant of edwin booth, lois trebisacci. she appeared on the program learning how she first learned of her blood line from her mother. without skipping a beet she said you re going to be learning this in school. they are going to say that he died in the barn. he did not die in the barn. he lived for many, many years. so she told you that blockbuster piece of information right away? yes, yes. i had no idea that john wilkes booth had survived. lois, did you hear the same story from your family about john wilkes booth?
john wilkes booth says he got away with it, killing himself 40 years after he killed the president. now booth s descendants want to exhume the body of his brother. they hope by digging up edwin booth s grave they will unearth the truth, comparing edwin s dna to the dna of the body now buried in john wilkes grave in baltimore. to explain it all. brad meltzer is here, hosts the history channel s brad meltzer decoded which just aired an episode on john wilkes booth and joining us from rhode island is a descendant of edwin booth, lois trebisacci. she appeared on the program learning how she first learned of her blood line from her mother. without skipping a beat she said you re going to be learning this in school. they are going to say that he died in the barn. he did not die in the barn.
realize this is changing history if this happens. this is rewriting the history books, and to me that is absolutely as lois said so well, that is a question that is worth asking. all right. it s a question that s worth asking. your episode aired last thursday on history channel. brad meltzer of brad meltzer s decoded, thanks for being with us and lois trebiasacci, the living descendant of edwin booth, thanks for joining us. a complicated story but very interesting, potentially putting question mark there next to one of those things that we thought were fact there regarding john wilkes booth, the assassin of abraham lincoln. you re watching cnn. up next, a christmas scene is destroyed and now a reward is being offered for anyone who can help catch the vandals responsible. so i went back to my doctor again. we chose symbicort to help control my asthma symptoms all day and night. [ man ] symbicort improves my lung function, starting within 15 minutes. symbicort will not replace a resc
saying, listen my family told me a secret or i believe it. and what we have to realize here, this is one of the greatest stories in all of american history. this isn t just a conspiracy theory. this isn t some dreamed up idea. you saw the clip from dakota that we aired on history channel this week, and you see a family member saying my family told me a secret, and the secret is john wilkes booth lived and you couldn t tell anybody and we all know we have all have our family secrets. not like that one, and you realize this is changing history if this happens. this is rewriting the history books, and to me that is absolutely as lois said so well, that is a question that is worth asking. all right. it s a question that s worth asking. your episode aired last thursday on history channel. brad meltzer of brad meltzer s decoded, thanks for being with us and lois trebisacci, the most direct living descendant of edwin booth, thanks for joining us. a complicated story but very interesting