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Performance of aladdin at grover s theater. [watch ticking]. tom hanks: with little more than 24 hours to live, abraham lincoln rises at 7:00 am and writes four brief messages, including one instructing acting secretary of state frederick seward to call a cabinet meeting for 11:00 am, then joins his family at breakfast to find his eldest son, robert, just returned from witnessing the surrender at appomattox. robert todd lincoln: general lee, stately, elegant. his uniform spotless. with a jeweled sword and shining spurs. and general grant, so shabby in a muddy blue uniform, borrowed from a private. abraham lincoln: [laughs] ....
Dr. charles leale: stop, stop! [grunts]. abraham lincoln: [gasping breath]. dr. charles leale: [grunts]. william h. flood: the house opposite is closed. henry s. stafford: here, here! bring him here. dr. charles leale: go, go, go. man: clear the way, please. out of the way, please. tom hanks: lincoln is taken to a boarding house directly across the street from the theater and, due to his 6 4 height, laid diagonally on the bed of absent boarder, william clark. shorty after 11:00 pm, secretary of war edwin stanton sets up a headquarters in the back parlor of the house and establishes relays between there and the war department telegraph operators. he alerts general grant and calls him back to washington, issues emergency directives to police and military authorities, orders the national detective police, to initiate a manhunt for the as-yet unknown ....
The actor john mathews will be on stage that evening at ford s theater. the next day he will burn the letter. the signed confession given to him by john wilkes booth. abraham lincoln has less than 15 hours to live. get up to $2500 customer cash on select 2016 and 2017 models for these terms. see your lexus dealer. i have a big meeting when we land, but i m so stuffed up, i can t rest. nyquil cold and flu liquid gels don t unstuff your nose. they don t? alka-seltzer plus night liquid gels fights your worst cold symptoms. plus, unstuffs your nose. oh, what a relief it is. ....
Atzerodt has just concluded. the attack that booth outlined is to go into effect immediately. at 10:15 louis powell is to kill secretary of state seward in his home on lafayette square. david herold will guide powell out of the city via the navy yard bridge. george atzerodt is to kill vice president johnson at the kirkwood house hotel. the only change in the plan is that booth will not be attending aladdin at grover s. hello, john. he will kill lincoln at ford s theater. it s still early in act two. booth has calculated that the appointed time of 10:15 will fall at the beginning of act three of our american cousin and it will be an intermission between the acts. booth retrieves his horse from ....
mr. fords, mr. parker, i hope that you might enjoy the play. since november of 1864, four officers of the metropolitan police have been detailed to protect the president. on this night, john parker is on duty. as last-minute replacements for general and mrs. grant, mrs. lincoln invites her dear friend, clara harris, in the company of her fiance major henry reed rathbone. the famously self-educated lincoln is an enthusiastic lover of theater, but during the war he is drawn to comedy, telling noah brooks that a farce or comedy is best played. a tragedy is best read at home. a last-minute meeting with louis powell, david herold and david ....