Episode 2 of the dramatic series 1865 covers the days after the Lincoln Assassination. It has some poorly sourced claims that Andrew Johnson and John Wilkes Booth shared a sex worker. More interesting is the investigation into the assassination and the reenactment of the play Lincoln was watching when he was shot. This series fiction. You may find it interesting to listen to on your drive to work.
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Here is the segment where the writers discuss Episode 2:
Episode 3 has Gideon Welles and Edwin Stanton butting heads over the treatment of freedpeople in the South. There is also a revelation about Lucy Hale, the daughter of a Republican senator and sometime companion to Robert Todd Lincoln.
Here is the Inside segment on Episode 3:
