Episode 621: The Assassination of Abraham Lin...

The boys are back, so strap in, because today we’re starting the story of Alex Murdaugh and the Murdaugh family murders, a Southern dynasty built on power, corruption, and violence, stretching back decades to the man who started it all: Alex Murdaugh’s great-grandfather, “Fire & ...  Show more

Henry & Eddie bring you this week's thickest stories and true crime news - Pennsylvania Police find ‘horror movie’ of stolen bones in infamous graverobber’s basement, Henry reacts to new Andrea Yates documentary, California father convicted of killing five infant children over th ...  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

How was President Abraham Lincoln murdered on Good Friday 1865, at Ford’s Theatre, just five days after Robert E. Lee’s surrender? Who was John Wilkes Booth, the racist actor with southern sympathies, who assassinated him? How did he escape before the shocked eyes of the packed t ...  Show more

On April 14th, 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Lincoln died hours later, shocking the war-torn nation and becoming the first President to be assassinated in office. But he would not be the last.

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On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in his presidential limo through downtown Dallas. His violent and public death became one of the most traumatic moments in the nation’s history — and one of the most controversial, as Americans debated the ...