EP4| ... to the Ages

🎙️ The Ides of April — Episode 4: “…to the Ages”

On the night of April 14, 1865, a young Union Army surgeon named Dr. Charles Leale bought a last-minute ticket to Ford’s Theatre—not to see the play, but to catch a glimpse of the President. What he didn’t expect was to become the first physician at Abraham Lincoln’s side after the shot that changed history.

In this episode, Alec Baldwin guides us through the dramatic final hours of President Lincoln’s life, as told through the eyes of those who were there—Dr. Leale, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, and a host of eyewitnesses. We follow John Wilkes Booth’s daring escape across the Navy Yard Bridge, watch as Lincoln is carried to a boarding house across the street, and witness the weight of national grief crash down in a crowded bedroom lit by flickering lamps and quiet prayers.

🔎 We unravel the moment-by-moment decisions, chaotic missteps, and solemn eulogies of that fateful night.

Featured voices:

🎤 Lincoln historian Harold Holzer

🎤 Historian Walter Stahr

Highlights of Episode 4:

    •    The chaotic scene inside the Presidential Box at Ford’s Theatre

    •    Booth’s conversation at the Navy Yard Bridge checkpoint—under his real name

    •    The fateful decision to bring Lincoln to the Petersen House

    •    Edwin Stanton’s grief… and fury

    •    The first hours of the greatest manhunt in U.S. history

    •    The death of a president… and the words that sealed his legacy

“Now he belongs to the ages.” — Edwin Stanton

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