Episode 621: The Assassination of Abraham Lin...

This week on Side Stories, it’s Oops! All Unc Corner. Welcome to Unc Stories - How to Be Unc 101, where the stories get longer, the advice gets louder, and everything somehow used to cost five bucks. Pull up a chair. It’s time to learn what it really takes to become “Unc”. For Li ...  Show more

In light of today’s historic guilty verdict in the murder of Tupac Shakur, we’re revisiting our conversation with former LAPD detective Greg Kading, who led the task force investigation into the murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. and later wrote *Murder Rap*. Recorded in 2 ...  Show more

After passing the 13th amendment, in the closing weeks of the brutal American Civil War, what did president Abraham Lincoln - recently re-elected - do next to inflame his detractors? Crippled with guilt for the death and destruction of the war, was he indeed a unionist tyrant? Wh ...  Show more

“Sic semper tyrannis!”This is the story of deception. Conspiracy. Assassination.The handsome, 26-year-old successful actor John Wilkes Booth has sympathized with the Confederacy since the war began. So when Abraham Lincoln wins reelection as President of the United States amid se ...  Show more

At the close of the Civil War in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was killed by a conspiracy of Confederate sympathizers led by actor John Wilkes Booth. But some contend that the conspiracy didn't begin or end with Booth and his accomplices - someone much more powerful was pulling ...  Show more

Hi friends, happy Wednesday!There are some things from history class that just stick in my brain. Mostly… the murders. I’m sure this isn’t surprising to anyone. Like JFK getting shot in his car. Or… Julius Caesar getting stabbed in the back. And, for some reason I always remember ...  Show more