Plots to Kill Lincoln 

The multiple plots and conspiracies to assassinate President Lincoln before that of John Wilkes Booth.

Directors:

Robert M. Wise (as Bob Wise), Dan Gagliasso (co-director)

Stars:

Heather Burton, Gregory A. Gale, Dan Galiaso

Cast

Episode credited cast:
Heather Burton	...	Mary Todd Lincoln
Gregory A. Gale	...	Conspirator #1
Dan Galiaso	...	Conspirator #4
Dale Gibson	...	Carriage Driver
Kathleen Kern	...	Narrator (voice)
Stanley Klos	...	Historian Manuscript Expert
David E. Long	...	Himself - East Carolina University
Eric U. Lowman	...	Union Soldier
Daniel Martinez	...	Himself - historian
Malcom McCuaig	...	Conspirator #3
William Seale	...	Himself - White House Historian
Hillary Styer	...	Clara Harris
Gary Sullivan	...	Conspirator #2
Woodrow Wilson	...	Himself (archive footage)

Storyline

The multiple plots and conspiracies to assassinate President Lincoln before that of John Wilkes Booth.

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Plot Keywords:

reference to mary todd lincoln | lincoln assassination | assassination of president | reference to abraham lincoln | character name in title | 

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Genres:

Documentary | History | Mystery

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

4 February 2004 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Termite Art Productions

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

User Reviews

Primary Sources made the show

In this program viewers lean about a secret plan to ambush the President-elect Lincoln's coach as he traveled to Washington to deliver his inaugural address. The show uncovers evidence of a Confederate scheme to kidnap Lincoln and use him as a bargaining chip at the post-Civil War negotiation table. Also historians reveal a crude plan to kill Lincoln with Yellow Fever, details of a land mine that was nearly buried beneath the White House and more. The most interesting part of the show, however, was the assassination plan of the Confederacy's President. Unsolved Mysteries reported that Colonel Ulrich Dahlgren was the leader of a secret Richmond raid, approved by Abraham Lincoln, to assassinate Jefferson Davis and his cabinet. It was alleged that Dahlgren, who was killed, had on his person several documents including a letter which said, "The men must be kept together, and well in hand, and once in the city, it must be destroyed and Jeff Davis and his cabinet killed." In this program rare document experts Stanley L. Klos and Edward Bomsey examine the letter at the Library of Congress. Their findings added greatly to the program's ethos.