Posts Tagged With: Impeachment

More than two years after Abraham Lincoln’s death, the surviving Lincoln conspirators were still the subject of interest at Fort Jefferson. In Washington, D.C., things between President Andrew Johnson and the Republican Party were reaching their boiling point, and efforts were underway to impeach the 17th President. As part of the evidence-gathering process, a Congressional committee was formed to investigate whether Johnson had played any role in the death of Abraham Lincoln. A representative was sent to Fort Jefferson to interview the conspirators about their (and possibly Johnson’s) involvement with John Wilkes Booth. In this, the penultimate episode in the series, we sit in on A Congressional Investigation.

Part 7: A Congressional Investigation

To learn more about this video series and to watch the other installments, please check out The Lincoln Conspirators at Fort Jefferson page.