The Senate Tavern and house. If you judge by fords theater in washington, d. C. , its about 14 miles southeast of there. What happened at about midnight when the calendar turned from april 42, 52, 1865, here in this tavern, John Wilkes Booth had been on the run. He shot Abraham Lincoln about ten, 15 or 10 20 p. M. , and he met up with one of his conspirators, david harold, across the 11th street bridge. And they met up at a high point and they rode straight here. This was their intended because this was a house of conspiracy. It was owned by mary surratt. She live here. It was a country tavern that a man rented it and ran it for her. And then she was living in her house in washington, d. C. , her boarding house. So booth and david harold arrived here and they pounded on the door. The innkeeper, john lloyd, was asleep and they pounded on the door and again and in then they let booth and david harold. Then they came in the side entrance, not through the front door. And then booth said, f
The Senate Tavern and house. If you judge by fords theater in washington, d. C. , its about 14 miles southeast of there. What happened at about midnight when the calendar turned from april 42, 52, 1865, here in this tavern, John Wilkes Booth had been on the run. He shot Abraham Lincoln about ten, 15 or 10 20 p. M. , and he met up with one of his conspirators, david harold, across the 11th street bridge. And they met up at a high point and they rode straight here. This was their intended because this was a house of conspiracy. It was owned by mary surratt. She live here. It was a country tavern that a man rented it and ran it for her. And then she was living in her house in washington, d. C. , her boarding house. So booth and david harold arrived here and they pounded on the door. The innkeeper, john lloyd, was asleep and they pounded on the door and again and in then they let booth and david harold. Then they came in the side entrance, not through the front door. And then booth said, f
The Senate Tavern and house. If you judge by fords theater in washington, d. C. , its about 14 miles southeast of there. What happened at about midnight when the calendar turned from april 42, 52, 1865, here in this tavern, John Wilkes Booth had been on the run. He shot Abraham Lincoln about ten, 15 or 10 20 p. M. , and he met up with one of his conspirators, david harold, across the 11th street bridge. And they met up at a high point and they rode straight here. This was their intended because this was a house of conspiracy. It was owned by mary surratt. She live here. It was a country tavern that a man rented it and ran it for her. And then she was living in her house in washington, d. C. , her boarding house. So booth and david harold arrived here and they pounded on the door. The innkeeper, john lloyd, was asleep and they pounded on the door and again and in then they let booth and david harold. Then they came in the side entrance, not through the front door. And then booth said, f
Heard of. One of the most notorious sinner of war camps in the history of modern warfare. It was a confederate prison for Union Soldiers in the southwest of georgia. We will talk about hanging henry wirz. He was executed for perpetuating mistreatment and murder at that can. He was one of the first individuals in the modern era tried for war crimes. Of 1865l in the fall set the precedent for more recent war crimes trials, the nuremberg trials of nazi perpetrators after world war ii, the allied prosecutors preparing for those prosecutions in nuremberg actually studied the wirz trial and his defense so they could prepare for what they anticipated the nazi defense would be. They called it the wirz defense, basically i was only following orders. That was the typical defense. They used his trial to prepare for that in 1945. Ins is an important moment world legal history. We are going to be thinking about the prison andersonville it self and what led conditions to be so horrible and what led
In perpetuating, according to the federal government, mistreatment and murder. At that camp. And he was one of the first individuals in the modern era to be tried for war crimes. And henry wirz trial in the fall of 1865 actually set the precedent for more recent war crimes trials. Most notably the nuremberg trials of nazi perpetrators after world war ii, the american or the allied prosecutors who were preparing for those prosecutions in nuremberg thrir studied the wirz trial and particularly his defense. So that they could prepare for what they anticipated the nazi defense would be. And actually called it the wirz defense. Which was basically, you know, i was only following orders. Thats the typical defense. And they use henry wirz trial to help prepare for that in 1945. So this is a really important moment. Not only in american legal history but also in world legal history. And were going to be thinking about the prirsen at andersonville itself and what led conditions there to be so h