you carry a carbine and you must hand it out! john wilkes booth: i declare before my maker that this man is innocent of any crime. upon the word and honor of a gentleman, he has no arms. the arms are mine and i ve got them! doherty: show your hands! put out your hands! david herold: booth. john wilkes booth: go! one more stain on the old banner! [laughs]. make quick work of it, captain. shoot me through the heart! [gunshot]. [door creaks]. conger: he s shot himself! lafayette baker: no, he did not. doherty: quick, get him out!
lafayette baker: be assured, we are not your friends! john wilkes booth: you have the sound of a brave man, an honorable man. i am a cripple. i ve got but one leg. if you will withdraw your men in line 100 yards from the door, i will come out and fight you. lafayette baker: we did not come here to fight! we came to make you a prisoner! john wilkes booth: you put any more kindling there; i ll put a ball through you. i could have picked off three or four of your men by now if i wished to do so. draw off your men 50 yards. lafayette baker: i will not! john wilkes booth: well, my brave boys! you can prepare a stretcher for me! go, go out. save yourself if you can. captain! there is a man in here who wishes to surrender awful bad! lafayette baker: let him hand out his arms!
lafayette baker: dr. frederick may, can you positively identify the body? dr. may: is there a scar upon the back of its neck? lafayette baker: there is. dr. barnes: let me describe it before it s seen by me. it s on the left side and has the appearance more like the cicatrix of a burn than that of a surgical operation. it was occasioned when i removed a fibroid tumor from his neck. it is exactly as you have described it. dr. may: yes, that is he. that is john wilkes booth. alexander gardner: gentlemen, please stand where you are and perfectly still.
it s for that ain t right. bernie s a lot smarter than i am. it s for high-school dropouts, but it s exciting. and it s a thriller. it s the last 2 weeks of lincoln s life. and the stuff that happened is amazing. john wilkes booth almost got away with it. and the only reason he didn t was because stanton, who some believe was involved in a conspiracy to hurt lincoln, called this crazy detective in new york city, lafayette baker, and brought him down to d.c. to find booth. if he hadn t done that, booth would have gotten away. kind of like bo dietl. there s a yeah, he was the bo dietl of the mid-19th century, which is not something you want on your tombstone. but, anyway, this is a book that will keep you up nights. it s not and i particularly wrote it this time because we need leadership in america desperately, and abraham lincoln is the gold standard for the presidency. he was, without a doubt, the best president the country s ever had. you know what i thought was cool?
it s for that ain t right. bernie s a lot smarter than i am. it s for high-school dropouts, but it s exciting. and it s a thriller. it s the last 2 weeks of lincoln s life. and the stuff that happened is amazing. john wilkes booth almost got away with it. and the only reason he didn t was because stanton, who some believe was involved in a conspiracy to hurt lincoln, called this crazy detective in new york city, lafayette baker, and brought him down to d.c. to find booth. if he hadn t done that, booth would have gotten away. kind of like bo dietl. there s a yeah, he was the bo dietl of the mid-19th century, which is not something you want on your tombstone. but, anyway, this is a book that will keep you up nights. it s not and i particularly wrote it this time because we need leadership in america desperately, and abraham lincoln is the gold standard for the presidency. he was, without a doubt, the best president the country s ever had. you know what i thought was cool?