Consider The Elephant

In this podiobook: The common wisdom is that the men who have attacked American Presidents - Czolgosz, Guiteau, Fromme, Hinckley, Moore, Oswald, Zangara - were disgruntled, disturbed loners. That wisdom includes John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham

Chapter 37 - Consider The Elephant 08/20/2006

Chapter 37 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: Ned writes a letter to Wilkes. Finis. /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16894

Chapter 36 - Consider The Elephant 08/19/2006

Chapter 36 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: Bainbridge, Ruggles and Jett /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16893

Chapter 35 - Consider The Elephant 08/18/2006

Chapter 35 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: Escape: Thomas Jones gets Wilkes to the Potomac. /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16892

Chapter 34 - Consider The Elephant 08/17/2006

Chapter 34 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: Escape: Dr. Samuel Mudd treats Wilkes' broken leg /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16891

Chapter 33 - Consider The Elephant 08/16/2006

Chapter 33 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: The assassination /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16890

Chapter 32 - Consider The Elephant 08/15/2006

Chapter 32 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: Wilkes learns that Lincoln is going to the theater. He makes his preparations. /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16889

Chapter 31 - Consider The Elephant 08/14/2006

Chapter 31 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: Wilkes urges the managers of two Washington theaters to invite Lincoln to a performance on Good Friday night. Surratt tells Wilkes he will have to escape to Canada. /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16888

Chapter 30 - Consider The Elephant 08/13/2006

Chapter 30 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: As their cause becomes more desperate, the Confederates decide to kill Lincoln - but without involving Wilkes. Richmond falls, and Wilkes - despondent - disbands his crew. But the Rebel plan is thwarted, and Mary Surratt asks Wilkes to assassinate th /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16887

Chapter 29 - Consider The Elephant 08/12/2006

Chapter 29 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: Now Richmond doesn't want Lincoln snatched. Wilkes is devastated. /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16886

Chapter 28 - Consider The Elephant 08/11/2006

Chapter 28 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: Wilkes takes his crew to a play at Ford's Theater. An attempt to snatch the President on the Seventh Street Road fails when Lincoln doesn't show. /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16885

Chapter 27 - Consider The Elephant 08/10/2006

Chapter 27 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: Wilkes goes to the inaugural ball but, out of concern for Lucy Hale, decides not to snatch the President there. /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16884

Chapter 26 - Consider The Elephant 08/10/2006

Chapter 26 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: Wilkes and Surratt decide to snatch Lincoln at his inaugural ball, and Wilkes concocts a clever way to get into the event. /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16883

Chapter 25 - Consider The Elephant 08/09/2006

Chapter 25 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: Wilkes gets a tour of John Ford's new theater in Washington, then meets a new conspirator - Lewis Thornton Powell. /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16882

Chapter 24 - Consider The Elephant 08/08/2006

Chapter 24 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: Wilkes leaves an envelope with Asia in Philadelphia, then meets the conspirators in Washington. /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16881

Chapter 23 - Consider The Elephant 08/07/2006

Chapter 23 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: While the three Booths perform "Julius Caesar", Confederates raid New York City, setting fires on Broadway in the hotels and theaters. /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16880

Chapter 22 - Consider The Elephant 08/06/2006

Chapter 22 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: Lincoln is re-elected, and Wilkes meets Dr. Samuel Mudd. /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16879

Chapter 21 - Consider The Elephant 08/05/2006

Chapter 21 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: Wilkes tells Asia of the Lincoln kidnap plot.Wilkes meets Patrick Martin in Montreal, makes his first contacts on the route he plans to use to take the kidnapped President to Richmond, and gets details on Lincoln's routine. /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16878

Chapter 20 - Consider The Elephant 08/04/2006

Chapter 20 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: In Boston, Wilkes meets with Confederate agents from Canada and signs on to a plot to kidnap President Lincoln. /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16877

Chapter 19 - Consider The Elephant 08/03/2006

Chapter 19 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: Lincoln is nominated for a second term, and Wilkes prospects for oil in Venango County, Pennsylvania. /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16876

Chapter 18 - Consider The Elephant 08/02/2006

Chapter 18 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: Sick and exhausted, Wilkes tours Southern towns under Union occupation while General Grant cuts a swath through Virginia. In New Orleans, Wilkes hears the story of how his father died. /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16875

Chapter 17 - Consider The Elephant 07/30/2006

Chapter 17 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: Trying to get to St. Louis, Wilkes spends Christmas in Leavenworth, is stranded in a blizzard and fights off a wolf. /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16874

Chapter 16 - Consider The Elephant 07/29/2006

Chapter 16 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: Wilkes, Edwin and Adam survive the New York City draft riots. /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16873

Chapter 15 - Consider The Elephant 07/27/2006

Chapter 15 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: John Surratt, a Confederate spy, contacts Wilkes and shows him the courier route from Washington to the Northern Neck of Virginia through T.B., Surrattsville and the Maryland countryside, and across the Potomac at Port Tobacco. /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16872

Chapter 14 - Consider The Elephant 07/26/2006

Chapter 14 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: Since Mollie's death, Edwin has been seeing and hearing her. With Adam's help, he arranges a seance to try to contact her. /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16871

Chapter 13 - Consider The Elephant 07/25/2006

Chapter 13 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: McClellan invades Virginia, up the peninsula between the York and James Rivers. The Yankees win the battles; still McClellan retreats, believing the Rebels too strong. Wilkes returns to smuggling contraband. Edwin returns to the stage, afraid he wil /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16870

Chapter 12 - Consider The Elephant 07/24/2006

Chapter 12 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: Following Adam's advice, Ned and Mollie go to Europe. But since Mollie is four months pregnant, they go to England, where they trust the doctors, rather than France or Italy. Ned searches the places where his father hsd been, but finds little trace o /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16869

Chapter 11 - Consider The Elephant 07/23/2006

Chapter 11 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: Wilkes triumphs in New York. He and Maggie go to Pfaff's Cafe to wait for the reviews. /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16868

Chapter 10 - Consider The Elephant 07/22/2006

Chapter 10 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: New York City considers seceding, since its economic fortunes are tied to the South. But the Union buildup brings new money into the city, and New York decides to stay in the fold. Adam enlists in the Union Army, as an aide to General Grant. His last /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16867

Chapter 9 - Consider The Elephant 07/21/2006

Chapter 9 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: Wilkes looks up a school friend, Michael O'Laughlen. He asks O'Laughlen to hook him up with Rebels in Maryland. O'Laughlen tells him that the attempt on Lincoln's life has failed and that Maryland is under Federal martial law and is not going to sece /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16866

Chapter 8 - Consider The Elephant 07/20/2006

Chapter 8 - Consider The Elephant -In this episode: The family gathers at Asia's for Christmas in Philadelphia. Asia is rabid against Abraham Lincoln; she tells the others what she has heard: that Lincoln will be murdered in Baltimore on his way to Washington. Wilkes announces he is going to join the /episode/index/show/considertheelephant/id/16865

Consider The Elephant

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