Episode 198: Curtain Call

Lore

Aaron Mahnke

History, True Crime

4.6 • 46.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Our love of all things thrilling and dramatic has led to some amazing achievements. But in the very center of that cultural legacy is a story that's both dark and chilling. And it comes with an encore that seems too strange to be true.

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0:00.0	The
0:01.0	World
0:02.0	The
0:03.0	World
0:04.0	The
0:05.0	World
0:05.0	The
0:06.0	World
0:07.0	The
0:08.0	World
0:09.0	The
0:10.0	World
0:11.0	Allow me to set the stage for you.
0:13.0	It's 1863.
0:14.0	America is in the middle of a civil war.
0:17.0	Queen Victoria is seated on the throne of England, and the entire English-speaking world
0:22.0	is obsessed with melodramatic theater.
0:26.0	Towards the theater in Washington, D.C. has suffered a fire and undergone some renovations
0:30.5	and was celebrating its reopening in August of that year.
0:34.3	And on November 10th of 1863, President Abraham Lincoln sat down in a box seat to watch
0:39.9	a performance of the marble heart, the exact same box seat, by the way, where he'd be
0:45.3	shot a year and a half later.
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