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Ladies and gentlemen, our president has breathed his last, and his spirit fled to god. Who gave it. At this time my knowledge of physiology topology, have followed you that pathology, and psychology told me the president was totally blind from the pressure of the blood on his brain. As indicated by his paralysis, his dilated eyes and their bloodshot and bulging, but i persisted in the belief that he retained his ability to hear and to feel, and so in that belief i think he heard me when i sent for his son. He heard his wifes voice as she spoke to him. The knowledge that frequently in the momen...

Thank you for tuning in as we reflect on the historic but consequential events 150 years ago tonight. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] last wednesday, American History tv was live in washington dc at the Peterson House were president lincoln was taken 150 years ago after being shot at fords theater by actor john wilkes is on the night of april 14, 1865. The president died the next morning in a back bedroom at 7 22 a. M. Next, a wreath laying ceremony on the Peterson House steps to mark resident lincolns passing. Ladies and gentlemen, our president h...

[bells tolling] [bells tolling] [bells tolling] [bells tolling] [bells tolling] each week, american artifacts visits museums and historic places. Youre looking at Peterson House here in washington, d. C. Where president Abraham Lincoln passed away in april of 1865. Up next, the boarding house across the street from fords theatre where Abraham Lincoln was shot 150 years ago. This is an interesting house that has a great history even before Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. It was built by a german immigrant to america, William Peterson, and he used the house as a boarding house. This is a relic...

Significance of the war and they said this led to reconstruction, the end of reconstruction. It builds up the southern myth that minimizes the significance of getting rid of slavery and paved the way for the terrible betrayal of the 13th and 14th amendments and the jim crow era which began to and in the 1950s. Do you agree with that . David what happens is lincoln from about 1876 onward becomes a marshmallow icon that can be consumed by whether you are a southern white supremacist or radical northerner, he becomes everybodys hero. In birth of the nation they say lincoln was the southpaws best ...

Lincolns view of the world in one word, the word is is. He believes the United States is a country not the United States are. In the prior, states were reviewed as part of an overall confederation of states. He believed we were one country. And he wanted to bring the Southern States back. Second, he wanted to improve the status and the lot of the lives of the americans the africanamericans living in the United States of the time it. Those who were free before, and certainly those who became free. Many of them as a result of lincolns own efforts. When he was killed, everything changed. It sent ...