When we left our series last week in Part 3, two members of John Wilkes Booth’s gang had not managed to make it out of the city following their own failed assassination attempts on the Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward. Meanwhile the city of Washington had fallen into chaos as public celebrations for the end of the war had turned into angry mobs.

But Booth himself, along with his guide David Harold, has slipped through the grip of the pursuing crowds and disappeared into the Maryland night. After briefly stopping in Surrattsville, the pair had traveled through the night until they arrived at the doorstep of Dr. Samuel Mudd. This is the place where we will pick back up this week for our second to last episode in this series - with the fugitives walking on the morning of April 15th still free men.

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