His image is everywhere ... Hundreds of statues peppered across the nation. ibid.
From 1854 onward Abraham Lincoln campaigned against the expansion of slavery into the western territories. But the man ... did not call for the abolition of slavery ... The Great Emancipator appeared to stand on the sidelines. ibid.
The accusation that has been raged against Abraham Lincoln is that on coming to office he pushed the American people into a disastrous and avoidable conflict. ibid.
Abraham Lincoln prosecuted the Civil War ferociously. ibid.
There is another America: among some in the former states of the Confederacy the Civil War is remembered as a war of aggression, and Abraham Lincoln a war criminal. ibid.
The ferocity with which the Lincoln administration conducted war was not restricted to the south. Lincoln had gone to war to prevent slavery expanding into the west, and to defend the free soil ideology of his Republican Party. But the soil and the land of the west could only be made free for white settlers if first cleared of its original owners: the Native Americans. ibid.
Does Lincoln deserve his reputation as the Great Emancipator, or was the Emancipation Proclamation as much an act of war as it was an act of mercy? ibid.
The Civil War had consumed 630,000 lives. ibid.
Three of his four children failed to make it to adulthood, he suffered from intense bouts of depression, he was unhappily married, in 1833 he went bankrupt. Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln: A Culture Show Special, BBC 2013
He was the definitive war president. ibid.
His assassination five days after the end of the war created a kind of modern day saint. ibid.
Lincoln was a conservative; he was not an abolitionist. ibid.
In 1858 he says: ‘I am not nor ever have been in favour of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races.’ ibid.
After murdering President Abraham Lincoln, the most famous assassin in American history lived for forty-four years? Brad Meltzer’s Decoded s1e4: The Lincoln Assassination, 2010
On the evening of April 13th 1865 John Wilkes Booth initiates his plan not only to kill Abraham Lincoln but to decapitate the government of the United States. Killing Lincoln, National Geographic 2013
John Wilkes Booth is also a southern zealot – his hatred of Abraham Lincoln is nothing less than fanatical. ibid.
14th April 1865 Ford’s Theatre: no two accounts match. ibid.
April 14th 1865: Booth is a man who wants to see his name writ up not just in lights but in the annals of history. Days that Shook the World: Terror – Made in America, BBC 2004
A passionate and committed defender of the South. ibid.
Lincoln has always refused any formal protection. ibid.
On April 14th 1865 John Wilkes Booth crept into the State Box at the Ford Theatre in Washington DC and assassinated Abraham Lincoln ... There were numerous plots to kill the president. Unsolved History: Plot to Kill Lincoln, Discovery History 2013
April 14 1865: Victory To The Union. The Conspirator 2010 starring Kevin Kline & James McAvoy & Robin Wright & Justin Long & Evan Rachel Wood & Tom Wilkinson & Johnny Simmons & Toby Kebbell & Norman Reedus & Alexis Bledel et al, director Robert Redford, officers’ party
You do look awfully handsome in your uniform. ibid. Sarah
You are charged with having received, entertained, harboured, concealed, aided and assisted John Wilkes Booth. ibid. court
They planned on ransoming Lincoln in exchange for all the confederate prisoners. ibid. accused mother to Aiken
A year after Mary Surratt’s trial, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled citizens were entitled to a trial by jury, even in times of war. A jury of Northerners and Southerners could not agree upon a verdict in the case of John Surratt. He was set free. ibid.
US President Abraham Lincoln was shot at point-black range by a distant relative of the British prime minister’s wife, William Booth. This was a conspiracy. Chris Everard, Illuminati vol III
Just five months after he is elected president for the second time Abraham Lincoln goes out to this theatre to watch a comedic play. It is 14th April 1865 Good Friday. Almost two hours into the performance John Wilkes Booth creeps into the presidential box and shoots Lincoln in the back of the head with a Derringer pistol. Mystery Files: Abraham Lincoln, National Geographic 2010
It is the move towards black suffrage that leads directly to his death. ibid.
Now he belongs to the ages. Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War
Infinite wisdom has seldom sent any man into the world better fitted for his mission than Abraham Lincoln. Frederick Douglass
Lincoln understood who was really pulling the strings and what was at stake for the American people. William T Still, The Money Masters, 1996
From this point on the entire US money supply would be created out of debt. ibid.
Booth was a mercenary working for international bankers. ibid.
The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom ... I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it systematically to corrupt the modern world. They will not hesitate to plunge the whole of Christendom into wars and chaos in order that the earth should become their inheritance. Otto von Bismark
In Washington fireworks filled the sky. A great crowd gathered around the White House called for Lincoln. He was too weary to make a formal speech but asked the band to play Dixie. Ken Burns, The Civil War: The Better Angels of Our Nature, PBS 1990
April 14th 1865: at the end of the American Civil War president Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. The Men Who Built America I: Vanderbilt, History 2012
You know you’ll have to play dirty and devious to become president. Race for the White House s1e2: Abraham Lincoln v Stephen Douglas, 2016
Illinois: They’ve come to hear Abraham Lincoln confront Stephen A Douglas on the issue that threatens to tear America apart: slavery. ibid.
Lincoln has assembled a prize team to take on the favourites. ibid.