Inside the Episode: S1E9

1865

Airship / Wondery

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

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 9, we learn the investigation into Booth’s conspirators left Stanton with a new challenge: prove the Rebels are behind the attack on Abraham Lincoln. As the trial of the conspirators gets underway, Johnson and Stanton went to war over the future of the country.

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	Hey, this is Rob McCollum, one of the producers of 1865.
0:10.0	Thanks for joining me for Inside the Episode 9.
0:14.7	As usual, co-writer Stephen Walters and Eric Archilla are here to talk about all conspiracy
0:21.2	all the time.
0:22.2	This is the episode where we get deep, deep into what happened and what they are trying
0:27.8	to prove with this conspiracy.
0:30.0	In this episode, we meet the character of Mary Sarat.
0:34.4	This is a major, major historical figure in this investigation and in this tribunal.
0:40.0	Talk about who Mary Sarat was.
0:41.7	Well, Mary Sarat was a focal point of the military tribunal.
0:46.7	In this episode, we kind of do a deep dive into the conspiracy.
0:50.1	You could write an entire 12 episode or longer series just about John Wilkes Booth and his
0:55.1	conspirators.
0:56.1	Trust me, Steve's tried.
0:57.1	We had to reign them in.
0:58.1	At a certain point, we just said, stop doing rewrites.
1:00.6	We're going to do this.
1:01.6	And it's a good thing too for my sanity and my marriage.
1:04.0	But basically, Mary Sarat becomes a focal point of this investigation into John Wilkes Booth
1:10.5	and his conspirators and their connection to Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy.
1:16.0	Mary was the mother of a man named John Sarat, who was one of Booth's accomplices in what
1:20.6	was an earlier plot prior to the assassination attempt, which was an attempt to kidnap Abraham
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