History Detectives - Season 2 Episode 6 Home of Lincoln Assassination Plot / Preston Brooks' Riding Crop / Revolutionary War Cannon
Preston Brooks' Riding Crop The Place: Long Island, New York A man claims that a beautiful riding crop was given to a family ancestor by the President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis. He believes that it was no ordinary present, but was given to Preston Brooks to congratulate him for beating into senselessness an anti-slavery campaigner, Charles Sumner. Many regard this public attack in the Senate as a significant moment in America's move toward division and Civil War. History Detectives visits New York City, Columbus, Georgia and Sea Cliff, New York, to unravel a startling story of politics, filibusters and mistaken identity.
Home of Lincoln Assassination Plot The Place: Greenwich Village, New York A woman has a question about the home she's been living in for the last few years. She's heard a rumor that John Wilkes Booth, the infamous assassin of Abraham Lincoln, spent some time in her house. Not only that, she's heard that her home is where the plot for the assassination
Year: 2014
Genre: Documentary
Country: United States of America
Studio: PBS
Director: Bernadette McDaid
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First Air Date: Jul 14, 2003
Last Air date: Jul 22, 2014
Season: 11 Season
Episode: 116 Episode
Runtime: 60 minutes
IMDb: 7.00/10 by 3.00 users
Popularity: 3.556
Language: English
Keyword : investigation
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Civil War Submarine / Red Cloud's Peace Pipe / Thomas Edison's House
Early Monopoly / Internment Artwork / Lewis and Clark Cane
Anti-Slavery Flag / Mail Order Brides / WWII Landing Craft
First Movie Studio / Hollywood: Warner's Lighter / King Kong Camera
Dueling Pistols / Little Big Horn Bayonet / Nesbit Portrait
Home of Lincoln Assassination Plot / Preston Brooks' Riding Crop / Revolutionary War Cannon
Chinese Poem / Ventriloquist's Dummy / Witch's House
Bonnie & Clyde Bullets / George Washington Portrait / Revolutionary War Poem
Lost Gold Ship / John Hunt Morgan Saddle / Cesar Chavez Banner
Continental Army Muster Roll / Pop Lloyd Baseball Stadium / Pretty Boy Floyd's Gun
Charlie Parker's Saxophone / Koranic School Book / Prison Plaque
Body in the Basement / Newport U-Boat / Shippen Golf Club