Inside the Episode: S1E7

1865

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Fiction, Drama, Government, Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, History

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🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 7, we hear Stanton and Langston go to the mats with Johnson and Welles over the issue of reconstruction and the future of the Freedman.

In this Inside the Episode bonus feature, hear director and co-producer Robert McCollum interview the writers and co-producers Steven Walters and Erik Archilla about the true history behind the podcast.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Rob McCollum, one of the producers of 1865. Welcome to 1865 Inside the Episode.
0:14.9	This week talking about Episode 7. So joining me is Eric Archilla and Stephen Walters,
0:21.3	Howdy Writers of the Project. Welcome, welcome. Let's get right into it. So we ended this
0:25.9	episode on the huge cliffhanger of Eckert discovering the denial of security, the request from the
0:31.8	president. We start right in on that here and meet for the first time Abraham Lincoln. In all of his
0:39.0	quirky and playful glory coming in and and and basically telling Stanton he's going to ignore his
0:44.3	request. And one of the things that we really try to do across the board but specifically with Lincoln
0:49.1	was to put as many of his own words into his mouth as we possibly could. Nobody wrote Lincoln,
0:54.6	better than Lincoln than Lincoln. No wait, what is it? How do you say that? Nobody wrote Lincoln,
0:59.0	better than Lincoln. That's the way to say it. And so yeah, we have this scene where the day of
1:05.9	because General Grant was occupied, I think, Eric, what was he doing? Well, we have heard that Stanton
1:12.2	made an effort to make sure that he didn't go and talked him out of going to the Ford. But he said
1:18.3	is I think if I remember correctly that his wife wasn't feeling well and they decided to get the
1:22.8	train get on the train to back to their home and leave. Yeah, so Lincoln goes to Stanton and he
1:27.9	specifically requests major record and it's true. He requested him because major record could
1:32.3	bend an iron poker over his arm. And in the real history of it as far as we know, there was no
1:37.4	written request for security. It was a verbal request and and then Stanton calls major record
1:42.8	in after he tells Lincoln no and he dismisses him. He sends him home and that's what really happened
1:48.1	that night. And it's far as we know. It's important for the audience to remember that there was no
1:52.2	secret service at this time because no one had ever thought that anyone would make an attempt
1:57.0	on a president's life. Well, Stanton had thought of it. I mean, it's also important to remember that
2:01.8	in the days leading up to Lincoln's assassination, somebody shot the top hat right off of Lincoln's
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