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Tom hanks: they have arrived at about 1:00 am on easter sunday. after talking until dawn, cox is sympathetic, but no fool. he will put booth and herold in touch with a confederate smuggler who will get them across the potomac and into virginia. but cox will not allow lincoln s assassin to stay in his home. so booth and herold are directed to wait in a pine thicket just across cox s property line. they don t know it yet, but they will wait there for the next five days and four nights. john wilkes booth: davey! don t you know i can t get on? david herold: help him on his horse. john wilkes booth: [groans in pain]. $12? oswell swann: yas suh. ....
Inauguration day. i could have. i was that close. now if the south is to be aided at all it must be done quickly. it may already be too late. when caesar conquered the enemies at rome and the power that was his menaced the liberties of the people, brutus arose and slew him. trouble? not at all. i stand with brutus. lincoln might have remained in virginia on the battlefront with general grant. he might even have been present to witness robert e. lee s surrender on april 9th, but as fate would have it, secretary of state william seward and his son frederick are victims of a carriage accident in washington. ....
After one failed attempt, it s in the early morning hours of april 23rd that john wilkes booth and david herold finally cross the potomac and land in virginia. as he writes in his diary, with every man s hand against me, for doing what brutus was honored for, looked upon as a common cutthroat. abandoned, with the curse of cain upon me. and on april 24th booth and herold arrive at the farm of richard garrett. booth presents himself as james w. boyd, battle of petersburg and the family takes them in. but the very next day, booth is writing in his diary when word comes that union cavalry are heading toward the garrett farm. booth tells herold to get his pistols and ....
John wilkes booth: i cannot carry a carbine. this little bitch fell on me. stumbled while jumping. i broke my damned leg. i need a surgeon. we ll go to sam mudd s. david herold: but, no. hadn t we oughta get down south, cross to the river, cross into virginia. john wilkes booth: i cannot go on without a doctor. lloyd? lloyd? john lloyd: huh? john wilkes booth: i am fairly certain we have assassinated the president and secretary seward. mind your damn horse, davey. let s go. tom hanks: meanwhile at the petersen boarding house, corporal james tanner, who has lost both legs at the second battle of bull run and is just 10 days past his 21st birthday, is about to take the first eyewitness testimony in the assassination of abraham lincoln. mary todd lincoln: [sobbing]. ....
John wilkes booth: i cannot carry a carbine. this little bitch fell on me. stumbled while jumping. i broke my damned leg. i need a surgeon. we ll go to sam mudd s. david herold: but, no. hadn t we oughta get down south, cross to the river, cross into virginia. john wilkes booth: i cannot go on without a doctor. lloyd? lloyd? john lloyd: huh? john wilkes booth: i am fairly certain we have assassinated the president and secretary seward. mind your damn horse, davey. let s go. tom hanks: meanwhile at the petersen boarding house, corporal james tanner, who has lost both legs at the second battle of bull run and is just 10 days past his 21st birthday, is about to take the first eyewitness testimony in the assassination of abraham lincoln. mary todd lincoln: [sobbing]. ....