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Presidents and it turns out both got impeached. >> and i think it is so are arcane in history, the thing about andrew johnson to remember is as you said, he was the running mate for abraham lincoln as sort of a bipartisan ticket, but after lincoln was assassinat assassinated, he wanted to excuse the south. he wanted to stop black people from becoming full citizens. and can you just walk us through -- so he got impeached because of that, right? because he tried to stop the federal government from helping black citizens. >> right. so after lincoln was assassinated, johnson became president. you ...

Kill his wife? >> under the circumstances, i'd say the motive was just based on this heat of passion argument that they were having. alcohol, a fight and guns, that's where we got murder. >> at the same time johnson was still reluctant to press charges. remember, the state's own medical examiner couldn't say whether heidy's death was a homicide. and johnson knew that would be a huge hurdle in court. >> based on my experience in courts with juries, a medical examiner carries a lot of weight. >> so johnson and wallace showed the m.e. a 96-page power point presentation of all their evidence inclu...

Because an expectation of conviction forced him to resign. there is another historical example that offers clues and parallels, a president facing challenges to his legitimacy because he became president without winning a majority of the votes. these are the parallels to president johnson, who was the first president ever impeached in american history. he assumed the office after lincoln was assassinated and governed in ways that undercut lincoln's work. he doubled down on racist structures in the south and d y denied congress. there is no doubt johnson was seen as a terrible and unethical lea...

>> detective wallace powered over conrad's statements to police about what happened that night. as wallace saw it, conrad's story went like this conrad was in the kitchen. heidi was in the bathroom. at some point conrad heard a pop. when he heard, he saw heidi standing somewhere between the kitchen and the bathroom hallway bleeding. >> and he either runs over to catch her or she falls down. >> wallace then went back to the truman home making detailed measurements of the kitchen and surrounding rooms, he wanted to see if conrad's story checked out. his conclusion, it did not. >> her body is at ...

Craig johnson. johnson agreerkd everything pointed to conrad. >> why would conrad truman want to kill his wife? >> under the circumstances, i'd say the motive was based on the heat of passion argument that they were having. alcohol, a fight and guns, that's where we got murder. >> at the same time, johnson was still reluctant to press charges. remember, the state's own medical examiner couldn't say whether heidi's death was a homicide and johnson knew that would be a hurnl hurdle in court. >> based on my experience in courts with juries and medical examiners, it carries a lot of weight. >> so ...