P O D C A S T : CONSIDER THE ELEPHANT
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Click the picture to get this Podcast widget code for your site or Blog or FaceBook profile 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 Lincoln - called a failed actor and a madman.
But the truth is that Wilkes was the matinee idol of his time – and the attack on Lincoln was not the act of a maniac, but a part of a plan developed at the highest levels of the Confederacy.
In “Consider the Elephant,” the third podcast novel by Aram Schefrin, the story of Wilkes’ life and death is told by his brother, Edwin Booth, called “Ned.” Ned was the greatest Shakespearean actor of his age – as was their father Junius in his era – and their brother June was an actor, too, though less successful than his brothers. The story is soaked in the ambiance of life in the American theater in the mid nineteenth century, and full of rich characters, and it lays out in detail the path Wilkes took to the top of the celebrity heap, his growing involvement with the Southern rebels and the development in Richmond of the plot to kidnap – later assassinate – the Union President.
Ned writes a letter to Wilkes. Finis. Copyright  2006 Aram Schefrin To find out more about the facts on which this book is based, go to (...)
Escape: Bainbridge, Ruggles and Jett. Copyright  2006 Aram Schefrin To find out more about the facts on which this book is based, go to (...)
Escape: Thomas Jones gets Wilkes to the Potomac. Copyright ÃÂ 2006 Aram Schefrin. To learn about the facts on which this book is based, go to (...)
Escape: Dr. Samuel Mudd treats Wilkes' broken leg. Copyright ÃÂ 2006 Aram Schefrin To find out more about the facts on which this book is based, (...)
The assassination. Copyright  2006 Aram Schefrin. To learn about the facts on which this book is based, go to www.johnwilkesbooth.blogspot.com (...)
Wilkes learns that Lincoln is going to the theater. He makes his preparations. Copyright  2006 Aram Schefrin. To learn about the facts on which (...)
Wilkes urges the managers of two Washington theaters to invite Lincoln to a performance on Good Friday night. Surratt tells Wilkes he will have (...)
As their cause becomes more desperate, the Confederates decide to kill Lincoln - but without involving Wilkes. Richmond falls, and Wilkes - (...)
Now Richmond doesn't want Lincoln snatched. Wilkes is devastated. Copyright  â 2006 Aram Schefrin. To learn about the facts on which this book is (...)
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. (...)
Wilkes goes to the inaugural ball but, out of concern for Lucy Hale, decides not to snatch the President there. Copyright © ℗ 2006 Aram (...)
Wilkes and Surratt decide to snatch Lincoln at his inaugural ball, and Wilkes concocts a clever way to get into the event. Copyright © ℗ 2006 (...)
Wilkes gets a tour of John Ford's new theater in Washington, then meets a new conspirator - Lewis Thornton Powell. Copyright © ℗ 2006 Aram (...)
Wilkes leaves an envelope with Asia in Philadelphia, then meets the conspirators in Washington. Copyright © ℗ 2006 Aram Schefrin. To learn (...)
While the three Booths perform "Julius Caesar," Confederates raid New York City, setting fires on Broadway in the hotels and theaters. Copyright (...)
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