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1865

Sic Semper Tyrannis | 1

1865

Airship / Wondery

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

4.82.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

President Lincoln is mortally wounded. The nation is under attack. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton takes control and tries to protect Vice President Andrew Johnson.

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Starring Jeremy Schwartz as Edwin Stanton.

Also featuring (in order of appearance):

Lindsay Graham (Abraham Lincoln)

Pam Dougherty (Actress 1)

Matthew Gray (Harry Hark)

Didi Archilla (Actress 2)

Montgomery Sutton (John Wilkes Booth)

Ian Ferguson (Major Thomas Eckert)

Taylor Harris (Soldier)

J. Michael Tatum (Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles)

Reed Birney (Senator John P. Hale)

Jessica Renee Russell (Lucy Hale)

Aaron Roberts (Marshal James McPhail)

R. Bruce Elliott (Vice President Andrew Johnson)

David Coffee (Doctor)


Created by Steven Walters and Erik Archilla

Written and directed by Steven Walters

Executive Producer: Lindsay Graham

Co-executive Producers: Erik Archilla, Robert McCollum and Steven Walters

Music and Sound Design by Lindsay Graham

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0:00.0

Some days ago, I retired very late.

0:08.2

I could not have been long in bed when I fell into a slumber for her.

0:11.2

I was weary.

0:12.2

As soon began a dream, before me rested a corpse, wrapped in funeral lessons, around it

0:22.3

were station guards, and there was a throng of people.

0:26.4

Some gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully.

0:33.8

Who was dead in the White House by demand of one of the soldiers?

0:40.0

The President was his answer.

0:43.0

He was killed by an assassin.

0:46.8

Then Kim, a loud burst of grief from the crowd, which awoke me from my dream, and slept

0:53.5

no more than night.

0:56.7

Abraham Lincoln, April 11, 1865.

1:11.8

Mr. Trenchard, you will please recollect you are dressing my daughter and in my presence.

1:20.2

Yes, I am offering her my heart and hand, just as she wants them with nothing in it.

1:27.5

Oh, Guster, dear, to your room.

1:30.3

Yes, ma'am, the nasty beasts.

1:33.7

I am aware, Mr. Trenchard, that you are not used to the manners of good society.

1:39.7

Don't know the manners of good society, eh?

1:44.1

Well, I'm now enough to turn you inside out old girl.

1:48.4

You shock-idناism old manㅋㅋ

1:52.8

Keep ci dont!

2:18.3

1865

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