The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Narrator: : In the early morning of April 21, 1865, a train draped with black bunting slowly departed Washington.
旁白：1865年4月21日清晨，一列挂着黑彩旗的火车缓缓驶离华盛顿。
In the second-to-last car rode the body of the America’s first assassinated President: Abraham Lincoln.
倒数第二辆车里坐着美国第一位被暗杀的总统亚伯拉罕·林肯的遗体。
Over the next 12 days, the funeral train would wend its way across the country.
在接下来的12天里，送葬列车将穿越全国。
Millions paused to stand by railroad sidings, or file past his open casket to glimpse the martyred president’s face.
数百万人驻足站在铁路旁，或者鱼贯走过他打开的棺材，一睹这位烈士总统的面容。
David Blight, historian: : It’s a nation mourning, it’s a people mourning, it’s a whole society mourning, but in the end, they’re mourning the death of a simple man like themselves, who came from a place like they came from.
历史学家戴维·布莱特（David Blight）：这是一个国家的哀悼，这是一个人民的哀悼，这是整个社会的哀悼，但最终，他们哀悼的是一个像他们一样简单的人的死亡，他来自一个和他们一样的地方。
Harold Holzer, writer: : You could not write this from scratch.
Harold Holzer，作家： ：你不能从头开始写这个。
You could not invent this and make it believable, the life and the death.
你无法发明这个并使其可信，生与死。
He’s an authentic hero who is bigger than life, bigger than war, and almost bigger than America by the time he died.
他是一位真正的英雄，比生命更伟大，比战争更伟大，在他去世时几乎比美国更伟大。
Narrator: : At the very moment Lincoln’s funeral train departed Washington, his murderer lay shivering in the reeds beside the banks of the Potomac River.
旁白：：就在林肯的送葬列车离开华盛顿的那一刻，谋杀他的凶手躺在波托马克河畔的芦苇丛中瑟瑟发抖。
The largest manhunt in American history was closing in and John Wilkes Booth managed to scribble a few words in his diary.
美国历史上最大规模的搜捕行动即将来临，约翰·威尔克斯·布斯在日记中写下了几句话。
John Wilkes Booth (Will Patton): : Our cause being almost lost, something decisive and great must be done.
约翰·威尔克斯·布斯（威尔·巴顿）：我们的事业几乎失败了，必须做一些决定性的、伟大的事情。
A country groaned beneath this tyranny, and prayed for this end, and yet now behold the cold hands they extend to me.
一个国家在这种暴政下呻吟，并为此祈祷着，但现在却看到他们向我伸出了冰冷的手。
God cannot pardon me if I have done wrong.
如果我做错了，上帝不会原谅我。
Yet I cannot see any wrong.
但我看不出有什么问题。
James L.
詹姆斯·L。
Swanson, writer: : It’s often said that Booth killed Lincoln because he was a failed actor, because he went mad.
斯旺森，作家：人们常说布斯杀了林肯，因为他是一个失败的演员，因为他疯了。
John Wilkes Booth shared political views that were identical to the views held by millions of southerners, hundreds of thousands and likely millions of northerners.
约翰·威尔克斯·布斯的政治观点与数百万南方人、数十万甚至可能数百万北方人的观点相同。
John Wilkes Booth was not insane, he was not mad, unless you think the country was mad.
约翰·威尔克斯·布斯没有疯，他没有疯，除非你认为这个国家疯了。
Gene Smith, writer: : For 150 years, people have asked, why did this handsome, rich, happy young man.
吉恩·史密斯，作家： 150年来，人们一直在问，为什么这个英俊、富有、快乐的年轻人会这样。
Why did he do it?
他为什么这么做？
Terry Alford, historian: : While millions of people dislike Lincoln and hundreds of thousands fought against him in armies and thousands wanted to see him dead and maybe dozens even daydreamed about it, only one person in millions stepped up to him with a pistol and that was John Wilkes Booth.
历史学家特里·阿尔福德：虽然数百万人不喜欢林肯，数十万人在军队中与他作战，数千人希望看到他死，也许有几十人甚至做白日梦，但只有数百万人拿着手枪走到他面前，那就是约翰·威尔克斯·布斯。
Narrator: : The night of April 13, 1865 was one of the most radiant any one in Washington could remember.
旁白： 1865 年 4 月 13 日的夜晚是华盛顿人记忆中最灿烂的夜晚之一。
With the agony of the Civil War drawing to a close, the city celebrated peace by draping itself in lights.
随着内战的痛苦接近尾声，这座城市通过灯光来庆祝和平。
Doris Kearns Goodwin, historian: : There’s an incredible sense of jubilation that the war is coming to an end, and it was witnessed in the light: the spectacular scenery, with the crowds on the street and the lights in all the windows, it must have been a beautiful thing to behold.
历史学家多丽丝·卡恩斯·古德温 (Doris Kearns Goodwin)：战争即将结束，人们有一种难以置信的喜悦感，在灯光下见证了这一点：壮观的风景，街道上的人群和所有窗户上的灯光，这一定是一件美丽的事情。
Narrator: : “The Great struggle is over,” editorialized the New York Times .
旁白：：“伟大的斗争已经结束，”《纽约时报》社论说。
“The history of blood is brought to a close.
“血的历史结束了。
The last shot has been fired.
最后一枪已经打响。
The last man, we trust, has been slain…” That night, John Wilkes Booth walked among the revelers in a haze of resentment and alcohol.
我们相信的最后一个人已经被杀了……”那天晚上，约翰·威尔克斯·布斯（John Wilkes Booth）在怨恨和酒精的阴霾中走在狂欢者中间。
James L.
詹姆斯·L。
Swanson, writer: : He heard the taunts against General Lee and the Confederate army.
斯旺森，作家：：他听到了针对李将军和南部邦联军队的嘲讽。
He saw the Union soldiers in their uniforms marching up and down the streets, celebrating.
他看到身着制服的联邦士兵在街道上走来走去，庆祝。
It was the most beautiful, joyful night in American history since we had won the Revolutionary War.
这是自我们赢得独立战争以来美国历史上最美丽、最欢乐的夜晚。
And John Wilkes Booth had to witness it all.
约翰·威尔克斯·布斯必须见证这一切。
Narrator: : Later, a disconsolate Booth wrote his mother a note.
旁白：：后来，郁郁寡欢的布斯给他的母亲写了一张纸条。
John Wilkes Booth (Will Patton): : “Everything was bright and splendid.
约翰·威尔克斯·布斯（威尔·帕顿饰）：“一切都明亮而辉煌。
More so in my eyes if it had been a display in a nobler cause.
在我看来，如果这是为了更崇高的事业而进行的展示，那就更是如此。
But so goes the world.
但世界也是如此。
Might makes right.”
强权即公理。”
James L.
詹姆斯·L。
Swanson, writer: : When he went to bed that night, he was a man with little hope.
作家斯旺森： 那天晚上，当他上床睡觉时，他是一个没有什么希望的人。
He was a man without prospects.
他是一个没有前途的人。
He was a man who felt his world and everything he held dear had been crushed and humiliated.
他是一个感觉自己的世界和他所珍视的一切都被粉碎和羞辱的人。
Narrator: : John Booth grew up on his family farm in Bel Air, Maryland.
旁白：约翰·布斯在马里兰州贝莱尔的家庭农场长大。
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詹姆斯·L。
Swanson, writer: : He really grew up in a country style, horseback riding.
斯旺森，作家：：他确实是在乡村风格的骑马中长大的。
He spent a lot of time outdoors.
他在户外度过了很多时间。
He had a very idyllic, free childhood
他有一个非常田园诗般、自由的童年
Edward Steers Jr., writer: : He had a very vivid imagination.
小爱德华·斯蒂尔斯（Edward Steers Jr.），作家： ：他有非常生动的想象力。
So much so that he could create all sorts of fantasies in his own mind.
以至于他可以在自己的脑海中创造出各种各样的幻想。
Terry Alford, historian: : When he was ten or twelve he got an old lance that a soldier had brought back from the war with Mexico and could be seen riding around the woods making heroic speeches and mounting mock charges against trees and bushes.
历史学家特里·奥尔福德：当他十岁或十二岁的时候，他得到了一支旧长矛，这是一名士兵从与墨西哥的战争中带回来的，可以看到他骑马在树林里发表英勇的演讲，并对树木和灌木丛进行模拟冲锋。
Gene Smith, writer: : The words winning, buoyant, gaiety, joyous, cheerful, laughing, it turns up in the mention of Johnny by anybody who knew him.
吉恩·史密斯（Gene Smith），作家：任何认识约翰尼的人在提到约翰尼时都会出现这些词：“胜利”、“活泼”、“欢乐”、“快乐”、“开朗”、“大笑”。
Narrator: : To the Booths of Maryland, greatness was assumed as a birthright.
旁白：：对于马里兰州的布斯来说，伟大被认为是与生俱来的权利。
Led by their patriarch, the flamboyant and eccentric Junius Brutus Booth, the family was known as the foremost theatrical dynasty of their time.
在他们的族长朱尼厄斯·布鲁图斯·布斯 (Junius Brutus Booth) 的领导下，这个家族被誉为当时最重要的戏剧王朝。
Gene Smith, writer: : He was the son of the greatest actor in America.
吉恩·史密斯，作家：：他是美国最伟大演员的儿子。
His brother Edwin was on his way to inheriting the mantle and Johnny Booth saw himself, I suppose the modern word would be, “entitled.”
他的兄弟埃德温即将继承这个衣钵，约翰尼·布斯看到了自己，我想用现代词来说就是“有权利”。
Narrator: : By 17, John had decided to follow his famous father and brother onto the stage.
旁白： 17 岁时，约翰决定跟随他著名的父亲和兄弟走上舞台。
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詹姆斯·L。
Swanson, writer: : Booth was terrible when he began.
斯旺森（Swanson），作家：：布斯刚开始的时候很糟糕。
He didn’t know how to perform; he would mess up his lines.
他不知道如何表演；他会搞乱他的台词。
But he developed special skills that his father didn’t have and his brother Edwin didn’t have.
但他发展出了他父亲和弟弟埃德温都没有的特殊技能。
Terry Alford, historian: : When you went to see John Wilkes Booth you knew you would get your money’s worth.
特里·奥尔福德（Terry Alford），历史学家：：当你去见约翰·威尔克斯·布斯（John Wilkes Booth）时，你知道你的钱是值得的。
You were going to get some very exciting stage action.
你将会看到一些非常激动人心的舞台动作。
He electrified you with his movements.
他的动作让你兴奋不已。
A tremendous swordsman.
一位了不起的剑豪。
Gene Smith, writer: : He had presence, he had flair, he had dramatic impulse, he had a fiery quality on the stage and off the stage.
吉恩·史密斯，编剧：他风度翩翩，才华横溢，有戏剧性的冲动，台上台下都有着火热的品质。
And he was gorgeous to look at.
他看起来很漂亮。
Narrator: : In 1958, at the age of 20, Booth began traveling the country as a featured performer.
旁白： 1958 年，20 岁的布斯开始作为一名特色表演者在全国各地巡回演出。
Terry Alford, historian: : He appears to be in fact the first American actor who had his clothes ripped by fans when he was coming out of the theater one night.
特里·阿尔福德（Terry Alford），历史学家：他实际上是第一位在一天晚上走出剧院时衣服被粉丝撕破的美国演员。
He was adored.
他受到人们的崇拜。
Gene Smith, writer: : This dramatic, handsome young man, filled with excitement, with vibrancy, took the stage by storm.
吉恩·史密斯（Gene Smith），编剧：这位戏剧性的、英俊的年轻人，充满兴奋，充满活力，以风暴般的方式登上了舞台。
Narrator: : Just as Booth reached stardom, however, the country itself was losing interest in idle pursuits like the theater.
旁白：然而，正当布斯成为明星时，这个国家本身对戏剧等闲散的追求失去了兴趣。
A much more vivid drama was turning North against South, and brother against brother.
更生动的戏剧是北方对抗南方，兄弟对抗兄弟。
The Booths were no exception.
布斯也不例外。
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詹姆斯·L。
Swanson, writer: : Edwin really became a man of the North.
斯旺森，作家：：埃德温真正成为了北方人。
He became a star in the North.
他成为了北方的明星。
And his political consciousness developed along those lines.
他的政治意识也是沿着这些路线发展起来的。
John Wilkes spent most of his time in the South.
约翰·威尔克斯大部分时间都在南方度过。
That’s where he received his great acclaim, that’s where he felt best loved.
那是他获得巨大赞誉的地方，那是他感到最被爱的地方。
And over time he naturally adopted the Southern point of view.
随着时间的推移，他自然而然地接受了南方的观点。
Narrator: : “We are of the North!” Booth’s sister Asia once insisted.
旁白：：“我们来自北方！”布斯的妹妹阿莎曾经坚持说。
“Not I,” he replied.
“不是我，”他回答道。
“So help me God, my soul, life and possessions are for the South.”
“上帝啊，请帮助我，我的灵魂、生命和财产都是为了南方。”
Terry Alford, historian: : There was a really big burden to being a Booth whether you went on the stage or not.
特里·奥尔福德（Terry Alford），历史学家：：无论你是否上台，作为布斯的负担确实很大。
You have these giants in your family that you’re inevitably compared to and to some extent, as a young man, he needed to just psychologically to individualize himself from them and to show that he was his own person.
你家里有这些巨人，你不可避免地会与他们进行比较，在某种程度上，作为一个年轻人，他需要在心理上使自己与他们不同，并表明他是他自己。
Narrator: : While his family dispersed across the North, Booth spent most of his time in Richmond, Virginia, the citadel of the South.
旁白：：虽然布斯的家人分散在北方，但他大部分时间都在南方的城堡弗吉尼亚州里士满度过。
Edward Steers Jr., writer: : He viewed the South as the ideal type of society.
小爱德华·斯蒂尔斯（Edward Steers Jr.），作家：他认为南方是理想的社会类型。
Unlike the North, which he considered rough, mongrel, the South was pure.
他认为北方是粗野、杂种的，南方则不同，南方是纯净的。
He did not view slavery as an evil.
他并不认为奴隶制是一种罪恶。
Slavery was God’s blessing to the African-American, it brought him to Christianity, it brought him to higher civilization.
奴隶制是上帝对非裔美国人的祝福，它把他带到了基督教，它把他带到了更高的文明。
It was the abolitionists in the North that were splitting this country apart and he hated abolitionists, he hated the anti-slavery movement.
正是北方的废奴主义者分裂了这个国家，他讨厌废奴主义者，他讨厌反奴隶制运动。
Narrator: : When radical abolitionist John Brown was captured while trying to incite a slave rebellion in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, Booth heeded a call for volunteers to guard against Brown’s escape.
旁白：当激进废奴主义者约翰·布朗在弗吉尼亚州哈珀斯费里煽动奴隶叛乱时被捕时，布斯响应了号召志愿者防止布朗逃跑的号召。
He couldn’t help but be impressed as Brown held the nation spellbound from his prison cell, issuing bloody prophecies about the fate of the Union.
当布朗在牢房里让整个国家着迷，对联邦的命运发出血腥的预言时，他不禁留下了深刻的印象。
Terry Alford, historian: : One of the interesting features of John Wilkes Booth is his fascination with romantic characters, with heroic characters in particular.
历史学家特里·奥尔福德：约翰·威尔克斯·布斯的有趣特征之一是他对浪漫人物，尤其是英雄人物的迷恋。
People who defined the age, people whose acts made everyone stand up and pay attention to what he was doing.
这些人定义了这个时代，他们的行为让每个人都站起来关注他所做的事情。
He loved characters in the heroic mold.
他喜欢英雄形象中的人物。
Narrator: : In November, 1860, a little-known Illinois politician named Abraham Lincoln was elected President.
旁白： 1860 年 11 月，一位名不见经传的伊利诺伊州政治家亚伯拉罕·林肯当选总统。
The victory of an anti-slavery Republican provoked seven states to secede from the Union, and enraged millions of Southern sympathizers, including John Wilkes Booth.
反奴隶制共和党人的胜利激怒了七个州脱离联邦，并激怒了包括约翰·威尔克斯·布斯在内的数百万南方同情者。
“We used to laugh at his patriotic froth whenever secession was discussed,” Edwin Booth remembered.
“每当讨论分裂国家时，我们都会嘲笑他的爱国泡沫，”埃德温·布斯回忆道。
“That he was insane on that one point, no one who knew him can well doubt.”
“他在这一点上是疯狂的，任何认识他的人都不会怀疑。”
Terry Alford, historian: : Shortly after Lincoln’s election, Booth wrote a speech.
历史学家特里·奥尔福德：：林肯当选后不久，布斯写了一篇演讲。
He apparently wrote this to deliver to an audience.
他写这篇文章显然是为了向观众传达。
It doesn’t appear that he ever had an opportunity.
看来他从来没有机会。
But it is a great window into Booth’s mind.
但这是了解布斯思想的一个很好的窗口。
And it shows us that Booth is terrifically disturbed by the division of the country.
它向我们表明，布斯对国家的分裂感到非常不安。
That he blames the abolitionists entirely and essentially he sees what’s happening as a giant John Brown raid on the South.
他完全归咎于废奴主义者，本质上他将所发生的事情视为约翰·布朗对南方的大规模袭击。
John Wilkes Booth (Will Patton): : You all feel the fire now raging in the nation’s heart.
约翰·威尔克斯·布斯（威尔·巴顿）：你们都感受到了国家心中熊熊燃烧的火焰。
It is a fire lighted and fanned by Northern fanaticism, a fire which naught but blood can extinguish.
这是北方狂热点燃和煽动的火焰，只有鲜血才能扑灭。
The South wants justice, has waited for it long, she will wait no longer.
南方想要正义，已经等了很久了，她不会再等了。
Narrator: : “This war is eating my life out,” President Abraham Lincoln once said.
旁白：“这场战争正在吞噬我的生命，”亚伯拉罕·林肯总统曾经说过。
“I have a strong impression that I shall not live to see its end.” The small skirmish that Lincoln thought would be quickly over had, by 1862, turned into a bloody stalemate with no end in sight.
“我有一个强烈的印象，我将无法活着看到它的终结。”林肯原以为这场小冲突会很快结束，但到 1862 年，这场小冲突却变成了一场看不到结束的血腥僵局。
Lincoln haunted the War Department, where reports of casualties preyed on his mind.
林肯一直困扰着陆军部，伤亡报告不断困扰着他。
Joshua Wolf Shenk, writer: : This is not an abstract conflict.
约书亚·沃尔夫·申克（Joshua Wolf Shenk），作家：这不是一个抽象的冲突。
The important battlefields could be heard, or could be gone to very quickly.
重要的战场可以被听到，或者可以很快到达。
The casualties stumbled into the capitol.
伤亡人员跌跌撞撞地进入国会大厦。
Lincoln was someone who felt death and disappointment and difficulty extremely clearly.
林肯是一个对死亡、失望和困难有着极其清晰感受的人。
It was always with him: the sheer physical grueling horror of it.
它始终伴随着他：纯粹的身体折磨的恐惧。
Harold Holzer, writer: : Lincoln assumes the-the role of a sort of a bereaved and grieving father.
哈罗德·霍尔泽（Harold Holzer），作家：林肯扮演了一位失去亲人、悲伤的父亲的角色。
He does absorb all of the loss and it ages him and it weighs him down and it makes him so melancholy and somber.
他确实吸收了所有的损失，这让他变老了，让他感到沉重，让他变得如此忧郁和忧郁。
Narrator: : In February, 1862, death reached out and touched Lincoln’s own family.
旁白： 1862 年 2 月，死亡降临到了林肯的家人身上。
His beloved 12 year-old son Willie fell sick with typhoid, contracted from drinking tainted water.
他心爱的 12 岁儿子威利因饮用受污染的水而患上伤寒。
After a weeklong illness, Willie died.
患病一周后，威利去世了。
Harold Holzer, writer: : The light went out of his life and he mourned very, very deeply, and then he was forced to go back into the work of seeing other boys die.
哈罗德·霍尔泽（Harold Holzer），作家：：他的生命中的光明消失了，他非常非常深地哀悼，然后他被迫重新开始看着其他男孩死去的工作。
Joshua Wolf Shenk, writer: : He was constantly wondering, why is this happening?
约书亚·沃尔夫·申克（Joshua Wolf Shenk），作家：他一直在想，为什么会发生这种情况？
What was God’s purpose in this death?
神这次死亡的目的是什么？
Why would he be so afflicting?
为什么他会如此痛苦？
Not only to the nation but Lincoln personally.
不仅对国家，而且对林肯个人。
It calls to mind the Biblical story that Lincoln was seen reading in the White House, which was the Book of Job.
这让人想起林肯在白宫读的圣经故事，即《约伯记》。
This man who just has everything taken from him.
这个男人的一切都被剥夺了。
Job collapses, as Lincoln collapses.
工作崩溃了，就像林肯崩溃了一样。
But that’s not the end of the story.
但这还不是故事的结局。
The collapse is on its way towards some new understanding of the nature of reality and the moral universe.
崩溃正在走向对现实本质和道德宇宙的新理解。
Narrator: : Out of suffering, Lincoln resolved must come “a new birth of freedom.” If so many had to lose their lives, it must be so that many more could gain their freedom.
旁白：林肯决心摆脱苦难，必须实现“自由的新生”。如果有这么多人不得不失去生命，那么一定会有更多人获得自由。
In January, 1863 Lincoln issued an order freeing the slaves in the rebellious Confederate states.
1863 年 1 月，林肯发布命令，释放叛乱的南部邦联各州的奴隶。
His Emancipation Proclamation transformed the meaning of the war.
他的《解放奴隶宣言》改变了战争的意义。
David Blight, historian: : He’s now linked the cause of black freedom to the cause of the preservation of an American republic, which means in effect, the war is being fought to reinvent the United States, not to preserve it.
历史学家大卫·布莱特：他现在将黑人自由的事业与维护美利坚共和国的事业联系起来，这意味着实际上，这场战争是为了重塑美国，而不是为了保护它。
The government, the republic, that would come out of this war, would not at all be the same anymore.
这场战争所产生的政府、共和国将不再是原来的样子了。
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Guelzo, historian: : What else could all this death and suffering and blood mean except a greater understanding of what it is to be a free people?
历史学家古尔佐：除了对自由人民的更多理解之外，所有这些死亡、苦难和流血还能意味着什么？
Joshua Wolf Shenk, writer: : He believed that the government was built on an idea and that this was a war over an idea.
约书亚·沃尔夫·申克（Joshua Wolf Shenk），作家：他相信政府是建立在一个理念之上的，而这是一场关于理念的战争。
And to surrender, to withdraw, to compromise on that idea would be to surrender something precious for all humanity, for all time.
投降、撤退、对这个想法妥协，就等于永远放弃对全人类来说宝贵的东西。
Narrator: : “I expect, to maintain this contest until successful,” Lincoln wrote, “or till I die or am conquered, or the country forsakes me.”
旁白：“我希望，继续这场竞赛，直到成功，”林肯写道，“或者直到我死去或被征服，或者这个国家抛弃我。”
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McPherson, historian: : There was no more talk of conciliation, no talk of compromise through some kind of political process.
历史学家麦克弗森：不再谈论和解，不再谈论通过某种政治进程达成妥协。
This is an outcome that can only be “tried by war and decided by victory.
这是只能“以战争来检验、以胜利来决定”的结果。
Tried by war, decided by victory.” Those six words put it, said it all.
经过战争考验，由胜利决定。”这六个字，已经说明了一切。
Narrator: : The trial of war would last far longer than Abraham Lincoln ever imagined.
旁白：：战争的审判持续的时间比亚伯拉罕·林肯想象的要长得多。
With Southern victories at Manassas, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, public opinion in the North began to falter.
随着南方在马纳萨斯、弗雷德里克斯堡和切斯勒斯维尔的胜利，北方的公众舆论开始动摇。
In the summer of 1863, draft riots broke out in several Northern cities.
1863年夏天，北方几个城市爆发了征兵骚乱。
Newspapers denounced Lincoln with what one friend called a “frantic malignancy.” Soon sentiment was so strongly against him that Lincoln was certain he would lose his bid for reelection.
报纸用一位朋友所说的“疯狂的恶毒”来谴责林肯。很快，人们对他的反对情绪如此强烈，以至于林肯确信他会失去连任竞选。
“The people are impatient,” he said.
“人们不耐烦了，”他说。
“The bottom is out of the tub.”
“底部已经超出浴缸了。”
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Guelzo, historian: : The costs are mounting, the politicians are complaining, and the voters are turning against him.
历史学家古尔佐：成本不断增加，政客们在抱怨，选民们也开始反对他。
And by the end of August 1864, Lincoln has concluded, “If we come to the polls like this in November, we’re going to lose.”
1864 年 8 月底，林肯得出结论：“如果我们在 11 月份像这样进行投票，我们就会失败。”
Narrator: : Salvation for Lincoln came in the form of a battlefield victory.
旁白：：林肯的救赎是以战场胜利的形式出现的。
On August 31st, General William Tecumseh Sherman broke through the Confederate defenses around Atlanta.
8 月 31 日，威廉·特库姆塞·谢尔曼将军突破了亚特兰大周围的南方邦联防御。
He sent a short telegram to President Lincoln: “Atlanta is ours and fairly won.”
他给林肯总统发了一封简短的电报：“亚特兰大是我们的，并且赢得了公平的胜利。”
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McPherson, historian: : When that was published in the Northern newspapers, it changed Northern opinion around almost overnight.
麦克弗森，历史学家：：当北方报纸发表这篇文章时，几乎一夜之间就改变了北方的观点。
Lincoln, who looked like the defeated and discredited commander-in-chief of a losing army now emerges as the leader of a triumphant army and he was triumphantly reelected.
林肯看上去像是一支失败的军队中战败且名誉扫地的总司令，现在却成为一支胜利军队的领袖，并凯旋而归。
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Swanson, writer: : Something turned in Booth when Abraham Lincoln was reelected.
斯旺森，作家：：当亚伯拉罕·林肯再次当选时，布斯发生了一些变化。
He realized Lincoln was in there for good, to prosecute the war to the end.
他意识到林肯将永远在那里，将战争进行到底。
He knew Lincoln was not going to settle with the South and that many more would die, that Lincoln was going to serve another four years in the White House.
他知道林肯不会与南方和解，还有更多的人会死去，林肯将在白宫再任职四年。
David Blight, historian: : These Yankees, led by this “black Republican” — as they called him — Abraham Lincoln, were going to use this war now to tear up the South, to destroy its institutions, to overthrow its way of life, and to end their civilization as they had known it.
历史学家戴维·布莱特（David Blight）：这些北方佬在这位“黑人共和党人”——他们这样称呼他——亚伯拉罕·林肯的领导下，将利用这场战争来撕裂南方，摧毁其机构，推翻其生活方式，并结束他们所熟知的文明。
Narrator: : By 1864, John Wilkes Booth was only 25 years old, yet he had already begun losing interest in his acting career.
旁白： 1864年，约翰·威尔克斯·布斯年仅25岁，但他已经开始对演艺事业失去兴趣。
“I hardly know what to make of you,” his agent wrote him.
“我简直不知道该怎么看待你，”他的经纪人写信给他。
“Have you lost all your ambition?”
“你已经失去了所有的野心吗？”
Terry Alford, historian: : I don’t think we should forget that acting in those days, is very, very hard work.
特里·阿尔福德（Terry Alford），历史学家：我认为我们不应该忘记，在那个时代，表演是非常非常艰苦的工作。
There’s travel, there’s exhausting performances, they are drafty theaters, managers who won’t pay you and I think at some point Booth began to tire of the stage.
有旅行，有令人筋疲力尽的表演，剧院通风良好，经理不会付钱给你，我认为在某个时候布斯开始厌倦了舞台。
Narrator: : To Booth, the war had rendered his life marginal and irrelevant.
旁白：对于布斯来说，战争使他的生活变得边缘化和无关紧要。
“What are actors?” he wrote.
“什么是演员？”他写道。
“They know little, think less, and understand next to nothing.” Booth’s dreams of glory beyond the stage were quickly passing him by.
“他们知道得很少，思考得也少，而且几乎什么也不明白。”布斯在舞台之外的荣耀梦想很快就与他擦肩而过。
He had nothing to show for the war, but the scars of a few overzealous stage duels.
他在战争中没有什么可展示的，除了几场过分热心的舞台决斗留下的伤疤。
John Wilkes Booth (Will Patton): : For four years I have cursed my willful idleness and begun to deem myself a coward.
约翰·威尔克斯·布斯（威尔·帕顿饰）：四年来，我一直咒骂自己的任性游手好闲，并开始认为自己是个胆小鬼。
I cannot longer resist the inclination, to go and share the sufferings of my brave countrymen, against the most ruthless enemy the world has ever known.
我再也无法抗拒去分担我勇敢的同胞的痛苦，对抗世界上最残酷的敌人的冲动。
Narrator: : Booth’s anger and disappointment began to focus on the one man he held responsible for the South’s suffering.
旁白：布斯的愤怒和失望开始集中在他认为对南方苦难负有责任的一个人身上。
Terry Alford, historian: : There’s no doubt that the war was pushing Lincoln forward as a symbol, an icon, something bigger than life.
历史学家特里·奥尔福德：毫无疑问，战争推动林肯作为一个象征、一个偶像、一个比生命更伟大的东西向前迈进。
Booth began to focus on Lincoln in this way, that Lincoln in fact was the source of all the nation’s troubles.
布斯开始这样关注林肯，认为林肯实际上是这个国家所有麻烦的根源。
Edward Steers Jr., writer: : Because of the war, Lincoln had to institute a whole series of acts that were viewed as very anti-democratic.
小爱德华·斯蒂尔斯（Edward Steers Jr.），作家：：由于战争，林肯不得不制定一系列被视为非常反民主的法案。
Suspension of the writ of habeas corpus for instance, shutting down newspapers, censoring people’s speeches.
例如，暂停人身保护令、关闭报纸、审查人们的言论。
All of these things were an anathema to John Wilkes Booth and he viewed himself in the end I think as someone that literally god had put here to correct the tyranny of Abraham Lincoln.
所有这些事情对约翰·威尔克斯·布斯来说都是一种诅咒，我认为他最终认为自己是上帝派来纠正亚伯拉罕·林肯暴政的人。
Terry Alford, historian: : Early on, Booth seems to have developed this passionate hatred for tyranny.
特里·奥尔福德（Terry Alford），历史学家： 布斯似乎很早就对暴政产生了强烈的仇恨。
It’s curious where that came from.
很好奇它是从哪里来的。
If we remember that his father’s middle name was Brutus, that may tell us a good bit.
如果我们记得他父亲的中间名是布鲁图斯，这可能会告诉我们很多信息。
Brutus of course was the character who assassinated Caesar and if you look both in the play of Shakespeare and in the writings of the historians of ancient Rome, Brutus was a character as noble as Caesar, as distinguished as Caesar, as well-regarded as Caesar and whose patriotism and decency were unquestioned.
布鲁图斯当然是刺杀凯撒的人物，如果你看看莎士比亚的戏剧和古罗马历史学家的著作，布鲁图斯是一个像凯撒一样高贵、像凯撒一样显赫、像凯撒一样受人尊敬的人物，他的爱国主义和正派是毋庸置疑的。
Narrator: : Like Brutus, Booth dreamed of a single, grand gesture that would turn the tide of history and catapult himself into immortality.
旁白：像布鲁图斯一样，布斯梦想以一个单一的、宏伟的姿态来扭转历史的潮流，并使自己永垂不朽。
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Swanson, writer: : John Wilkes Booth felt he had to justify why he wasn’t a soldier on the front lines.
斯旺森（Swanson），作家：约翰·威尔克斯·布斯（John Wilkes Booth）觉得他必须证明自己为什么不是前线的士兵。
Why didn’t he volunteer?
他为什么不自愿呢？
Why wasn’t he fighting?
他为什么不战斗？
Booth thought his resources, his talent and skill could be put to better use.
布斯认为他的资源、他的才能和技能可以得到更好的利用。
Narrator: : Booth began taking on small assignments for the Confederate Underground, a loose network of Southern spies living north of the Mason Dixon Line.
旁白：布斯开始为地下同盟承担一些小任务，地下同盟是一个由居住在梅森迪克森线以北的南方间谍组成的松散网络。
It was here, in the ferment of the Underground, that Booth settled on a bold plan.
正是在这里，在地下的骚动中，布斯制定了一个大胆的计划。
He would kidnap the President of the United States, convey him south to the Confederate capitol in Richmond, and ransom him for thousands of Confederate prisoners.
他会绑架美国总统，将他带到南方的里士满南部邦联国会大厦，并为他赎回数千名南部邦联囚犯。
Edward Steers Jr., writer: : The idea of capturing or kidnapping a United States president may seem preposterous on the surface, but at the time it was quite feasible.
小爱德华·斯蒂尔斯（Edward Steers Jr.），作家：：抓捕或绑架美国总统的想法表面上看起来可能很荒谬，但在当时是相当可行的。
Lincoln was unprotected.
林肯没有受到保护。
He moved about frequently on his own.
他经常独自搬家。
And he traveled as much as three miles to his summer residence at Soldiers Home, often unattended, by himself.
他独自一人长途跋涉三英里到达士兵之家的避暑别墅，而且常常无人看管。
Narrator: : In November and December, Booth made several trips to Southern Maryland, a hotbed of sedition, where he began to recruit co-conspirators and scout escape routes.
旁白：11 月和 12 月，布斯多次前往煽动叛乱的温床马里兰州南部，在那里他开始招募同谋并侦察逃生路线。
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Swanson, writer: : His most valuable conspirator was John Surratt.
斯旺森，作家：：他最有价值的同谋者是约翰·苏拉特。
College educated, Confederate courier, known in Richmond.
受过大学教育，邦联信使，在里士满很有名。
He helped Booth interact with other Confederate agents.
他帮助布斯与其他南方邦联特工互动。
Without John Surratt, Booth couldn’t have organized the conspiracy.
如果没有约翰·苏拉特，布斯就不可能组织这次阴谋。
Narrator: : Surratt introduced Booth to twenty nine yr-old George Atzerodt, a German-born carriage painter and boatman.
旁白：苏拉特将布斯介绍给了二十九岁的乔治·阿泽罗特，他是一位德国出生的马车油漆工和船夫。
During the war, Atzerodt secretly ferried Confederate agents across the waterways of Southern Maryland.
战争期间，阿泽罗特秘密运送南方联盟特工穿越马里兰州南部的水道。
Surratt also introduced Booth to David Herold, 22, an impressionable and dull-witted pharmacy clerk, who knew the back roads that would serve as the conspirators’ escape route.
苏拉特还将布斯介绍给了 22 岁的戴维·赫罗德 (David Herold)，他是一位易受影响且愚钝的药房店员，他知道密谋者的逃生路线是哪些小路。
Lewis Powell, tall and powerful, was a former Confederate prisoner of war who would provide the muscle for the kidnapping conspiracy.
刘易斯·鲍威尔身材高大、力量强大，是一名前南部邦联战俘，为绑架阴谋提供了力量。
Rounding out the group were two of Booth’s childhood friends, Samuel Arnold and Mike O’Laughlen — both ex-soldiers in the Confederate Army.
布斯的两位儿时好友塞缪尔·阿诺德和迈克·奥劳伦也是这群人中的最后一位，他们都是南方联盟军的前士兵。
The group had little in common other than a strong attraction to the charismatic actor who would be their leader.
除了对成为他们领袖的魅力演员的强烈吸引力之外，这个团体没有什么共同点。
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Swanson, writer: : It was as though a great star of the modern age picked you, a completely anonymous, unknown person of no status, no wealth, no importance, a great star picks you to be his confidante, his pal, his companion, to travel with, to dine with, drink with.
斯旺森，作家： 就好像现代时代的一位伟大明星选择了你，一个完全匿名、无名的人，没有地位，没有财富，没有重要性，一位伟大的明星选择你作为他的红颜知己，他的朋友，他的伴侣，一起旅行，一起吃饭，一起喝酒。
Many of them didn’t join the conspiracy because they hated Abraham Lincoln, they joined the conspiracy because they loved and admired John Wilkes Booth.
他们中的许多人加入阴谋并不是因为他们讨厌亚伯拉罕·林肯，而是因为他们热爱和钦佩约翰·威尔克斯·布斯。
Narrator: : On March 4th, 1865, more than 50,000 people gathered under rainy skies to witness Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inauguration.
旁白：1865年3月4日，五万多人在雨天聚集，见证亚伯拉罕·林肯第二次就职典礼。
After four harrowing years, the end of the war was at last in sight.
经过四年痛苦的岁月，战争终于即将结束。
Lincoln stood to address the crowd, just as a brilliant ray of light pierced the clouds overhead.
林肯站起来向人群发表讲话，一道灿烂的光芒刺破了头顶的云层。
“Let us strive on to finish the work we are in,” Lincoln implored, “to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan; to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace”.
林肯恳求道：“让我们努力完成我们正在进行的工作，包扎国家的伤口；照顾那些将要参加战斗的人，以及他的遗孀和孤儿；尽一切努力实现和珍惜公正和持久的和平。”
David Blight, historian: : There’s not even a moment of bitterness.
历史学家大卫·布莱特（David Blight）：：甚至没有一刻的痛苦。
There’s not even the slightest declaration of what will be done with Confederate leadership.
甚至没有任何关于南部邦联领导层将做什么的声明。
It is remarkable that in a moment like that, in this country that has all but won a victory in an all-out, terrible, total civil war, and he doesn’t even spend one sentence to declare the righteousness of victory and the evil of Confederate defeat.
值得注意的是，在这样的时刻，在这个几乎在一场全面、可怕、彻底的内战中几乎赢得胜利的国家，他甚至没有花一句话来宣告胜利的正义和南方联盟失败的邪恶。
Doris Kearns Goodwin, historian: : What he does is to suggest that the sin of slavery was shared by both sides.
多丽丝·卡恩斯·古德温（Doris Kearns Goodwin），历史学家：：他所做的是表明奴隶制的罪恶是双方共同承担的。
His way of reaching out to the south: “Both sides read the same bible, both prayed to the same God, neithers prayers were fully answered.” And then of course the words we remember: “with malice toward none, with charity for all, let us bind up the nation’s wounds.”
他向南方伸出援手的方式是：“双方读同一本圣经，都向同一个上帝祈祷，但都没有得到完全的回应。”当然，我们还记得那句话：“对任何人都没有恶意，对所有人都怀有仁慈，让我们包扎国家的伤口。”
Narrator: : Standing on the steps of the Capitol that day, only yards from the President, John Wilkes Booth seethed with hatred.
旁白： 那天，约翰·威尔克斯·布斯站在国会大厦的台阶上，距离总统只有几码远，他充满了仇恨。
For Booth, the prospect of another Lincoln term held not consolation, but the sting of bitterness and defeat.
对于布斯来说，林肯连任的前景并没有带来安慰，而是带来了痛苦和失败的刺痛。
“What a splendid chance I had,” he’d later confided, “to kill the President where he stood.” Two weeks later, Booth and his co-conspirators met in the private dining room of a Washington restaurant.
“我有一个绝佳的机会，”他后来透露道，“可以当场杀死总统。”两周后，布斯和他的同谋在华盛顿一家餐厅的私人餐厅见面。
Over oysters and champagne, Booth laid out his kidnapping plan.
布斯一边喝着牡蛎和香槟，一边阐述了他的绑架计划。
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Swanson, writer: : When Booth started to reveal the details, they thought he was a madman.
斯旺森，作家：：当布斯开始透露细节时，他们认为他是个疯子。
We’re going to kidnap Abraham Lincoln; we’re going to get him at Ford’s Theatre.
我们要绑架亚伯拉罕·林肯；我们要去福特剧院接他。
He said, one of you will turn down the gaslights at the signal and the theater will be plunged into darkness.
他说，你们中的一个人一听到信号就关掉煤气灯，剧院就会陷入黑暗。
Lewis Powell will get into the president’s box.
刘易斯·鲍威尔将进入总统包厢。
He’ll be the one who’s going to subdue Lincoln, tie him up and then lower him to the stage with a long rope while the theater is plunged into darkness.
他将制服林肯，把他绑起来，然后用一根长绳子把他放到舞台上，而剧院陷入黑暗。
Narrator: : Samuel Arnold scoffed at the audacity of Booth’s plan.
旁白：塞缪尔·阿诺德嘲笑布斯计划的大胆。
“You can be the leader of the party,” he said, “but not our executioner.”
“你可以成为党的领袖，”他说，“但不是我们的刽子手。”
Gene Smith, writer: : He says, “Johnny, all this is going to be done in front of an audience that will include several hundred soldiers of the Union Army?” And having gotten him out the back, if the soldiers don’t intercede, nobody is going to give the alarm throughout Washington, which is crawling with Yankee soldiers, cavalry patrols, and police?” He said, “it is madness beyond measure.”
吉恩·史密斯（Gene Smith），作家：：他说，“约翰尼，这一切都要在包括数百名联邦军士兵在内的观众面前完成吗？”把他从后面救出来后，如果士兵们不求情，整个华盛顿就不会有人发出警报了，因为华盛顿到处都是北方佬士兵、骑兵巡逻队和警察？”他说：“这是无法估量的疯狂。”
Narrator: : On April 3, the Confederate Capitol of Richmond, finally fell to Union forces.
旁白： ：4月3日，里士满南部邦联国会大厦终于落入联邦军队之手。
The President himself toured the smoldering ruins, as newly freed slaves rushed to embrace him.
总统亲自巡视了闷烧的废墟，新获释的奴隶纷纷涌上来拥抱他。
Six days later, Confederate Gen.
六天后，南方邦联将军。
Robert E.
罗伯特·E。
Lee surrendered at the small town of Appomattox Courthouse.
李在小镇阿波马托克斯法院投降。
After four bloody years, the war was over.
经过四年血腥的岁月，战争结束了。
The Confederacy in ruins and his kidnapping plot in tatters, Booth sank into disappointment and bitterness.
邦联已成废墟，他的绑架阴谋也被彻底破坏，布斯陷入了失望和痛苦之中。
James L.
詹姆斯·L。
Swanson, writer: : By April, 1865, Booth was certainly disillusioned.
斯旺森（作家）： 到 1865 年 4 月，布斯的幻想确实破灭了。
Think of what he had to endure from his point of view: a few months before, the reelection of the great tyrant.
从他的角度想想他必须忍受的事情：几个月前，大暴君的连任。
His failure to kidnap the president shamed him.
他未能绑架总统，这让他感到羞耻。
What was his future in the defeated, crushed South?
他在战败、被压垮的南方的未来是什么？
Narrator: : Out of his disappointment, Booth began to hatch a new, even more desperate plan.
旁白：出于失望，布斯开始制定一个新的、更加绝望的计划。
Terry Alford, historian: : He will punish the North, through Lincoln; he will punish the North for what it’s done to the South.
历史学家特里·奥尔福德：：他将通过林肯惩罚北方；他将惩罚北方对南方所做的事情。
Now revenge is not a very noble motive, but we all understand it is a very compelling human motive and sometimes it overwhelms.
现在复仇并不是一个非常崇高的动机，但我们都知道这是一个非常引人注目的人类动机，有时它会压倒一切。
Narrator: : The morning of April 14th, 1865, Abraham Lincoln awoke unusually cheerful.
旁白： 1865 年 4 月 14 日早晨，亚伯拉罕·林肯醒来时异常高兴。
Less than a week after the surrender of the Confederate Army, he allowed himself a moment of satisfaction.
同盟军投降后不到一周，他给自己带来了片刻的满足。
Joshua Wolf Shenk, writer: : He seemed relieved.
约书亚·沃尔夫·申克（Joshua Wolf Shenk），作家：他似乎松了一口气。
His face looked different.
他的脸看起来不一样了。
He had color; he had life in a way that he hadn’t all through the war.
他有色彩；他的生活是他在战争期间从未有过的。
Narrator: : “He was transfigured,” wrote one close friend.
旁白：“他变了样，”一位亲密的朋友写道。
“That indescribable sadness had been suddenly changed for an equally indescribable joy.”
“那种难以形容的悲伤突然变成了同样难以形容的喜悦。”
Harold Holzer, writer: : It is indeed the first day that he really feels that Washington is free and at peace.
哈罗德·霍尔泽（Harold Holzer），作家：：这确实是他第一次真正感受到华盛顿的自由与和平。
Narrator: : At the morning cabinet meeting, Lincoln again expressed his desire for clemency towards the South.
旁白：：在上午的内阁会议上，林肯再次表达了对南方宽大处理的愿望。
Then, in his usual way, he regaled his cabinet with stories.
然后，他像往常一样，给他的内阁讲故事。
Allen C.
艾伦·C.
Guelzo, historian: : Lincoln even talks about a dream that he had, a dream that he was standing on the deck of a ship, the ship was heading towards a dim shore ahead.
历史学家格尔佐：林肯甚至谈到了他的一个梦，梦到他站在一艘船的甲板上，船正驶向前方昏暗的海岸。
He said it was a dream he’d always had at important turning points in the war and he was convinced that he’d had the dream again because this was now the last great, final turning point.
他说，这是他在战争的重要转折点上一直做的一个梦，他确信自己又做了这个梦，因为现在这是最后一个伟大的、最后的转折点。
Doris Kearns Goodwin, historian: : He invited Mary to a carriage ride that afternoon, just the two of them together.
历史学家多丽丝·卡恩斯·古德温 (Doris Kearns Goodwin)： 那天下午，他邀请玛丽乘坐马车，只有他们两个人在一起。
They talked about what it might be like in Springfield, when they went home again to the place where they had begun, and he said to her, 'Mary, we’ve got to try to be happy now, our future is ahead of us’.
他们谈论了在斯普林菲尔德的情况，当他们再次回到他们开始的地方时，他对她说，“玛丽，我们现在必须努力快乐，我们的未来就在我们面前”。
And then that night they go to the theater.
然后那天晚上他们去了剧院。
Narrator: : That same morning, John Wilkes Booth awoke late.
旁白：：同一天早上，约翰·威尔克斯·布斯起得很晚。
He made his way to Fords Theater to pick up his mail, held for him by the theater’s owners.
他前往福特剧院领取剧院老板为他保管的邮件。
James L.
詹姆斯·L。
Swanson, writer: : And then somebody at Fords Theatre said, 'President Lincoln is coming tonight’.
斯旺森，作家：：然后福特剧院有人说，“林肯总统今晚要来”。
That was the moment.
就是那一刻。
He’s sitting on the front step of Ford’s Theatre and someone tells him, he’s coming here tonight.
他坐在福特剧院的前台阶上，有人告诉他，他今晚要来这里。
Narrator: : “He left the theater in a kind of hurry,” remembered one onlooker, “as if he had made up his mind about something to be done.”
旁白：“他匆忙地离开了剧院，”一位旁观者回忆道，“就好像他已经决定要做某件事一样。”
Terry Alford, historian: : Once Booth learned that Lincoln would be at the theater that night, he had essentially eight hours or so to get ready, and he went into a frenzy of action.
历史学家特里·奥尔福德：布斯得知林肯当晚将出现在剧院后，他基本上有八个小时左右的时间进行准备，然后他就开始了疯狂的行动。
James L.
詹姆斯·L。
Swanson, writer: : He checked on his horse.
斯旺森，作家：：他检查了他的马。
He made sure his derringer pistol was ready.
他确保他的德林格手枪已经准备好。
He thought about what he had to take on the road during his escape.
他思考着逃亡路上要带什么。
Narrator: : That afternoon, Booth returned to Ford’s theater.
旁白：：那天下午，布斯回到福特剧院。
He went to the President’s box and, in a small antechamber, he carved a small mortise in which to brace a stick of wood.
他来到总统包厢，在一个小前厅里雕刻了一个小榫眼，用来支撑一根木棍。
The other end would bar the door from the inside.
另一端将从里面锁住门。
An hour later, Booth convened what remained of his accomplices at a restaurant nearby.
一小时后，布斯在附近的一家餐馆召集了他剩下的同伙。
He informed them of a startling change of plans.
他告诉他们计划发生了惊人的改变。
James L.
詹姆斯·L。
Swanson, writer: : Tonight, in about two hours I am going to kill Abraham Lincoln.
斯旺森，作家：：今晚，大约两个小时后我将杀死亚伯拉罕·林肯。
You Lewis Powell will murder the secretary of state, William Seward.
你刘易斯·鲍威尔将谋杀国务卿威廉·苏厄德。
George Atzerodt, your job is to murder the vice president, Andrew Johnson.
乔治·阿泽罗特，你的任务是谋杀副总统安德鲁·约翰逊。
Booth of course reserved the greatest act for himself.
布斯当然把最伟大的表演留给了自己。
He would perform the Lincoln assassination solo.
他将独自表演林肯刺杀案。
Narrator: : That night, the Lincolns set out for Fords Theater around eight pm.
旁白： 那天晚上八点左右，林肯一家出发前往福特剧院。
Having been turned down by a series of more luminous guests, the Lincolns stopped to pick up a young friend of Mary’s named Clara Harris and her fiancé.
在被一系列更有才华的客人拒绝后，林肯一家停下来接玛丽的一位名叫克拉拉·哈里斯的年轻朋友和她的未婚夫。
James L.
詹姆斯·L。
Swanson, writer: : Booth reached into his pocket, handed him a small piece of paper, probably a calling card.
斯旺森，作家：：布斯把手伸进口袋，递给他一张小纸，可能是一张名片。
And of course Booth’s calling card would admit him to almost any place in Washington.
当然，布斯的名片允许他去华盛顿的几乎任何地方。
Terry Alford, historian: : Booth then opens the outer door leading to the vestibule to the box, and closes it.
特里·奥尔福德（Terry Alford），历史学家：：布斯然后打开通往包厢前厅的外门，然后将其关闭。
And then picks up the wood stand that he had left behind the door earlier in the day and uses it as a brace, wedging it between the door and the hole that he cut out in the wall.
然后他拿起当天早些时候留在门后的木架，将其用作支架，将其楔入门和他在墙上挖的洞之间。
James L.
詹姆斯·L。
Swanson, writer: : Now he’s one door away from Abraham Lincoln.
斯旺森，作家：：现在他距离亚伯拉罕·林肯只有一扇门的距离。
He can hear the sound of the play, the actors speaking.
他能听到戏剧的声音和演员们的说话声。
It’s dark in there.
那里很黑。
He walks up to the door and he looks through a peephole.
他走到门口，透过猫眼往外看。
Narrator: : Below, the play had reached a climax, as actor Harry Hawk prepared to deliver his biggest laugh-line of the evening.
旁白： ： 下面，戏剧达到了高潮，演员哈利·霍克准备发出当晚最大的笑声。
James L.
詹姆斯·L。
Swanson, writer: : He was waiting to hear that line.
斯旺森，作家：：他正在等待听到那句话。
The other actors leave the stage, Harry Hawk stands there alone and he says the line.
其他演员离开舞台，哈利·霍克独自站在那里，念出台词。
Narrator: : Suddenly a shot rang out through the auditorium.
旁白：：礼堂里突然响起一声枪响。
Corporal Rathbone leapt to his feet and Booth swung his dagger cutting the young officer’s shoulder to his elbow.
拉思伯恩下士跳了起来，布斯挥舞着匕首，从年轻军官的肩膀到肘部都割断了。
James L.
詹姆斯·L。
Swanson, writer: : Booth turned from Rathbone and began swinging his leg over the balustrade and he caught one of his spurs on the bunting and on the framed photograph of George Washington that hung at the front of the box.
斯旺森，作家：布斯从拉思伯恩转身，开始在栏杆上摆动他的腿，他的一根马刺被彩旗和挂在包厢前面的乔治·华盛顿的相框绊住了。
Narrator: : Landing awkwardly on the stage below, Booth broke his left ankle.
旁白：：布斯笨拙地降落在下面的舞台上，摔断了左脚踝。
Audience members later would disagree about what he shouted next.
观众后来对他接下来喊的内容表示不同意。
Many heard: “Sic Semper Tyrannis,” 'Thus Always To Tyrants.’ Others: “the South is avenged.”
许多人听到：“Sic Semper Tyrannis”，“暴君如此”。其他人：“南方报仇了。”
Terry Alford, historian: : He remained almost frozen for a minute as he struggled to gain his composure, and what he later told a friend was all the courage he could muster, he got to his feet and started for the wings.
特里·奥尔福德（Terry Alford），历史学家：他在努力保持镇静的过程中几乎僵住了一分钟，后来他告诉一位朋友，他鼓起全部勇气，站了起来，开始向机翼走去。
Allen C.
艾伦·C.
Guelzo, historian: : People look at each other for a moment: is this part of the play?
古尔佐，历史学家：：人们面面相觑：这是戏剧的一部分吗？
What is all this about?” This lasts for a second, two seconds, three seconds; that’s when the shouts go up: “The president has been shot!” “Somebody stop that man!” People scramble up on the stage apron but Booth has already bolted past the scenery, past the curtains, out the back entrance.
这到底是怎么回事？持续一秒、两秒、三秒；就在那时，喊声响起：“总统被枪杀了！” “谁来阻止那个人！”人们争先恐后地爬上舞台围裙，但布斯已经冲过风景，冲过窗帘，冲出后门。
He’s on a horse; he gallops away into the dark of Washington.
他骑在马上；他驰骋在华盛顿的黑暗中。
Narrator: : As Booth made his escape, his co-conspirators were not faring as well.
旁白：：当布斯逃跑时，他的同谋却没有好运。
Around 10:15, Lewis Powell knocked on the door of Secretary of State William Seward’s mansion.
10点15分左右，刘易斯·鲍威尔敲响了国务卿威廉·苏厄德官邸的门。
After forcing his way up the stairs, he entered Seward’s bedroom, where the Secretary was recovering from a broken jaw suffered during a carriage accident.
强行爬上楼梯后，他进入了苏厄德的卧室，国务卿正在那里从因马车事故中受伤的下巴中恢复过来。
Doris Kearns Goodwin, historian: : He has a huge Bowie knife, comes to Seward’s bedside, slashes his face with such force that his cheek is torn off.
多丽丝·卡恩斯·古德温（Doris Kearns Goodwin），历史学家：：他拿着一把巨大的鲍伊刀，来到苏厄德的床边，用力划破他的脸，以至于他的脸颊被撕掉了。
He loses so much blood that it is astonishing that he didn’t die right then.
他失血过多，令人惊讶的是他当时没有死。
He is scarred for life; however, because of the way the jaw was wired, because of the carriage accident, he missed the jugular vein.
他终生伤痕累累；然而，由于下巴的连接方式，由于马车事故，他错过了颈静脉。
Narrator: : As the alarm was raised, one of Seward’s sons along with a nurse rushed the would-be assassin.
旁白：警报响起后，苏厄德的一个儿子和一名护士冲向了潜在的刺客。
Powell dropped his knife and escaped down the stairs and out the door.
鲍威尔丢下刀，跑下楼梯，逃出了门。
At the same time, George Atzerodt, approached his quarry: Vice President of the United States Andrew Johnson.
与此同时，乔治·阿泽罗特找到了他的猎物：美国副总统安德鲁·约翰逊。
But as he neared Johnson’s residence, he lost his nerve.
但当他接近约翰逊的住所时，他失去了勇气。
James L.
詹姆斯·L。
Swanson, writer: : Atzerodt never went up those stairs, he never knocked on the door, he never tried to assassinate the vice president of the United States.
斯旺森，作家：：阿泽罗特从未上过那些楼梯，他从未敲过门，他从未试图暗杀美国副总统。
He was the only conspirator of Booth who failed his master that night.
他是布斯那晚唯一一个辜负了他的主人的同谋者。
Narrator: : Inside Fords Theater, a young Navy surgeon was the first to gain access to the Presidential box.
旁白：：在福特剧院内，一位年轻的海军外科医生第一个进入总统包厢。
James L.
詹姆斯·L。
Swanson, writer: : He cuts open Lincoln’s shirt.
斯旺森，作家：：他剪开了林肯的衬衫。
He can’t find the wound.
他找不到伤口。
There was no blood on him at all.
他的身上根本没有血迹。
He just won’t wake up.
他只是不会醒来。
So now the question is where shall the president of the United States die?
那么现在的问题是美国总统会死在哪里呢？
It can’t be on the floor of a theater box.
它不能放在剧院包厢的地板上。
Allen C.
艾伦·C.
Guelzo, historian: : Ten feet across F Street from Ford’s Theatre is a young man standing out in front of a boarding house who shouts over the din in the streets they should bring him over here, and they carry Lincoln’s body across the street, up the small winding steps of the Petersen Boarding House into the back bedroom, and they lay him out crosswise across the bedstead that is in the back bedroom.
古尔佐，历史学家：距福特剧院十英尺远的 F 街对面，有一个年轻人站在一间寄宿处前，他在街上的喧闹声中大声喊叫，他们应该把他带过来，他们抬着林肯的尸体穿过街道，沿着彼得森寄宿处蜿蜒的小台阶进入后卧室，然后将他横放在后卧室的床架上。
And that is when the deathwatch begins.
这就是死亡守望开始的时刻。
Narrator: : By now, the attending doctor had found a small bullet hole below Lincoln’s left ear.
旁白：：此时，主治医生已经在林肯的左耳下方发现了一个小弹孔。
He declared the wound mortal.
他宣布伤口致命。
One by one, as they received the terrible news, Lincoln’s cabinet members rushed to the Peterson House.
接到这个可怕的消息后，林肯的内阁成员一一赶往彼得森故居。
“The giant sufferer lay extended diagonally across the bed,” remembered Navy Secretary Gideon Welles.
“这个巨大的病人斜躺在床上，”海军部长吉迪恩·威尔斯回忆道。
“His slow, full respiration lifted the bedclothes with each breath.
“他缓慢而充分的呼吸，每次呼吸都将床单掀起。
His features were calm and striking.”
他的面容平静而引人注目。”
Edward Steers Jr., writer: : After he was completely stripped and covered in blankets and hot water bottles, Mary Lincoln was brought into the room to see him.
小爱德华·斯蒂尔斯（Edward Steers Jr.），作家：：在他被彻底脱光并盖上毯子和热水瓶后，玛丽·林肯被带进房间看他。
And she basically became hysterical.
她基本上变得歇斯底里。
She kept pleading with Lincoln, pleading with him to open his eyes just to say one word to her, but of course he couldn’t.
她不断地恳求林肯，恳求他睁开眼睛，只为对她说一句话，但他当然做不到。
Narrator: : Amid the chaos, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton took charge.
旁白： 在一片混乱中，战争部长埃德温·斯坦顿上台了。
Allen C.
艾伦·C.
Guelzo, historian: : It’s Stanton who was actually the man who keeps his head.
历史学家古尔佐：：斯坦顿才是真正保持头脑清醒的人。
He needs to get evidence, he needs to get witnesses, he needs to get depositions.
他需要获取证据，他需要证人，他需要获得证词。
He wants troops put on alert, he wants certain arrests made, he wants bridges closed, he wants a cordon put around Washington.
他希望军队保持戒备，他希望逮捕某些人，他希望关闭桥梁，他希望在华盛顿周围设置警戒线。
In a situation like this, there was no precedent.
在这样的情况下，没有先例。
Edward Steers Jr., writer: : The idea that this was done by individuals just was incomprehensible.
小爱德华·斯蒂尔斯（Edward Steers Jr.），作家： ：认为这是由个人完成的想法是不可理解的。
It had to be — it had to be something much larger, much wider that wasn’t finished yet.
它必须是——它必须是一个更大、更宽但尚未完成的东西。
Narrator: : By 11:30 pm, more than an hour after he had fled Fords Theater, John Wilkes Booth rendezvoused with Davey Herold in the Maryland countryside.
旁白： 晚上 11 点 30 分，约翰·威尔克斯·布斯 (John Wilkes Booth) 在逃离福特剧院一个多小时后，在马里兰州乡村与戴维·赫罗德 (Davey Herold) 会面。
After picking up rifles and a bottle of whiskey at a Country Inn owned by Mary Surratt, they headed south toward Virginia and possible escape into the deep South.
在玛丽·苏拉特拥有的一家乡村旅馆拿起步枪和一瓶威士忌后，他们向南前往弗吉尼亚州，并可能逃到南方腹地。
Edward Steers Jr., writer: : Booth was now suffering from the break in his leg.
小爱德华·斯蒂尔斯 (Edward Steers Jr.)，编剧： 布斯现在正遭受腿部骨折的痛苦。
He was clearly conscious of it now.
他现在清楚地意识到了这一点。
The adrenaline had stopped flowing, the pain had taken over.
肾上腺素停止流动，疼痛袭来。
Narrator: : Knowing they needed medical attention, the fugitives galloped southeast toward the home of a country doctor named Samuel Mudd, whom Booth had met months before while scouting escape routes through Maryland.
旁白：逃亡者们知道自己需要医疗救助，于是向东南疾驰，奔向一位名叫塞缪尔·穆德 (Samuel Mudd) 的乡村医生的家。几个月前，布斯在马里兰州寻找逃生路线时认识了他。
Terry Alford, historian: : From the Surratt house to Dr. Mudd’s was about 17 miles through a difficult country, a road not always well marked, pretty narrow in spots, washed by rain at spots through a swamp and pine forest.
特里·奥尔福德（Terry Alford），历史学家：：从苏拉特家到穆德博士家大约有 17 英里，穿过一个困难的国家，这条路并不总是有清晰的标记，有些地方相当狭窄，有些地方被雨水冲刷，穿过沼泽和松树林。
Edward Steers Jr., writer: : It was now overcast and a light drizzle was falling and they had to make their way without the aid of moonlight.
小爱德华·斯蒂尔斯（Edward Steers Jr.），作家：：现在天色阴沉，还飘着毛毛雨，他们不得不在没有月光的情况下前行。
It took them approximately four hours to get to Mudd’s house.
他们花了大约四个小时才到达穆德家。
They arrived just before four o’clock in the morning.
他们在凌晨四点之前到达。
Herold dismounted, went to the door, pounded on it.
赫罗德下了马，走到门口，用力敲门。
Dr. Mudd examined Booth, removed the boot from the leg and determined it was broken.
穆德医生检查了布斯，把靴子从腿上取下来，确定它已经坏了。
He set the broken leg, and told Booth that he needed to rest.
他安置好断腿，并告诉布斯他需要休息。
And so he took him upstairs and put him to bed in an upstairs bedroom.
于是他带他上楼，把他放在楼上卧室的床上。
Narrator: : As Booth slept, word of what he and his accomplices had done raced through the Capitol.
旁白：布斯睡着的时候，他和他的同伙所做的事在国会大厦传开。
James L.
詹姆斯·L。
Swanson, writer: : People would encounter each other in the street and say, 'The president has been shot, no, the Secretary of State has been attacked and he was stabbed.
斯旺森，作家：：人们会在街上相遇并说，‘总统被枪杀了，不，国务卿被袭击了，他被刺伤了。
No, it’s Lincoln, no it’s Seward.’ Then they realized it’s both.
不，是林肯，不，是苏厄德。”然后他们意识到两者都是。
Gene Smith, writer: : Rumors spread that they had slaughtered the Supreme Court justices, they had burned the Congressmen, people were afraid to go to bed at night, every horse that passed by they took to be the Confederate cavalry, people were running through the streets; it was a horrible situation.
吉恩·史密斯，作家：谣言四起，他们屠杀了最高法院的法官，他们烧死了国会议员，人们晚上不敢睡觉，每匹经过的马都被他们误认为是南方联盟的骑兵，人们在街上奔跑；这是一个可怕的情况。
Narrator: : Inside the Peterson House, as dawn approached, Abraham Lincoln was quickly fading.
旁白：：在彼得森宅邸内，随着黎明的临近，亚伯拉罕·林肯的身影很快就消失了。
Harold Holzer, writer: : In the room, it’s eerily quiet.
哈罗德·霍尔泽（Harold Holzer），作家： ：房间里出奇的安静。
Lincoln’s breathing is horrible to hear because he’s taking deep breaths and he’s rattling and wheezing, and sometimes he doesn’t breathe for what seems like forever.
林肯的呼吸声听上去很可怕，因为他在深呼吸，发出嘎嘎声和喘息声，有时他似乎永远没有呼吸。
Narrator: : Finally, at 7:22 in the morning, the Surgeon General pronounced the vigil over.
旁白：：最后，早上 7 点 22 分，卫生局局长宣布守夜活动结束。
Abraham Lincoln was dead.
亚伯拉罕·林肯去世了。
“We all stood transfixed in our positions,” remembered one witness, “speechless around the dead body of that great and good man.”
一位目击者回忆说：“我们都呆呆地站在自己的位置上，在那位伟大而善良的人的尸体旁说不出话来。”
Doris Kearns Goodwin, historian: : These men who by that time had come to love Lincoln showed their feelings crying at that bedside.
多丽丝·卡恩斯·古德温（Doris Kearns Goodwin），历史学家：：这些当时已经开始热爱林肯的人在床边哭泣，表达了他们的感情。
And then of course, Stanton uttered the words that had come down through time.
当然，斯坦顿说出了那些随着时间流逝而流传下来的话语。
“Now,” Stanton said, “he belongs to the ages.”
“现在，”斯坦顿说，“他属于时代。”
Harold Holzer, writer: : They send for a coffin and that’s when many people first realize that he’s dead, when they see this wooden coffin being taken up the stairs.
哈罗德·霍尔泽（Harold Holzer），作家：：他们派人去拿棺材，当他们看到这口木棺材被抬上楼梯时，许多人第一次意识到他已经死了。
And then a bit later, the doors swing open and the soldiers bring the coffin out again, and you can tell from their struggles that it’s — this time it’s occupied.
过了一会儿，门打开了，士兵们又把棺材搬了出来，从他们的挣扎中你可以看出，这一次它被占领了。
Narrator: : By the morning of Lincoln’s death, telegraphs reporting the assassination had reached nearly every major city in America.
旁白：：到林肯去世的那天早上，报道刺杀事件的电报几乎已经传遍了美国的每一个主要城市。
That evening, headlines broke the shocking news.
当晚，头条新闻报道了令人震惊的消息。
“The sun set last night on a jubilant and rejoicing nation,” wrote the New York Herald .
《纽约先驱报》写道：“昨晚，太阳落在了一个欢欣鼓舞的国家身上。”
“It rose this morning upon a sorrow-stricken people.” No one grieved more than the nation’s newly freed slaves.
“今天早上，它降临在悲痛欲绝的人们身上。”没有人比这个国家新解放的奴隶更悲伤。
“There will be sadness today, such as needs no funeral orations or badges of mourning,” wrote the New York Times .
《纽约时报》写道：“今天将会有悲伤，比如不需要葬礼演说或哀悼徽章。”
“The tears of the forgotten, outcast and oppressed slave will be the sincerest tears that fall on the grave of the President.”
“被遗忘、被遗弃和受压迫的奴隶的眼泪将是落在总统坟墓上最真诚的眼泪。”
Allen C.
艾伦·C.
Guelzo, historian: : Many black people feared that with Lincoln’s death they would be, in fact, returned to slavery, that the Emancipation Proclamation would somehow be revoked.
历史学家古尔佐：许多黑人担心，随着林肯的去世，他们实际上会回到奴隶制，解放奴隶宣言会以某种方式被撤销。
Narrator: : Four hours after Lincoln’s death, Andrew Johnson was sworn in as the new President, restoring a measure of stability to the national government.
旁白：林肯去世四小时后，安德鲁·约翰逊宣誓就任新总统，在一定程度上恢复了国家政府的稳定。
Gene Smith, writer: : The fear quickly vanished and it was replaced by a fervent rage.
作家吉恩·史密斯：恐惧很快就消失了，取而代之的是强烈的愤怒。
Narrator: : In the field, Union Soldiers were kept unaware of Lincoln’s death for several days for fear that they might seek retribution.
旁白：：在战场上，联邦士兵连续几天不知道林肯的死讯，因为担心他们会寻求报复。
Allen C.
艾伦·C.
Guelzo, historian: : Anyone known to profess Confederate sympathies would be well advised to stay indoors with the shutters closed and the doors locked.
古尔佐，历史学家：：任何已知表示同情南方联盟的人都应该留在室内，关上百叶窗并锁上门。
People on Washington streets who might, with too great a load on from celebrating, say something like, “Oh, I’m glad they shot old Abe,” would come within an inch of being lynched.
华盛顿街头的人们可能会因为庆祝而背负太多的负担，说出类似这样的话：“哦，我很高兴他们射杀了老安倍”，那么他们离被私刑就差一点了。
Narrator: : Within hours of Lincoln’s death, mobs had formed in many Northern and occupied Southern cities.
旁白：林肯死后几小时内，暴徒在许多北方和被占领的南方城市中形成。
In San Francisco, throngs destroyed the newspaper offices of the Democratic Press.
在旧金山，人群摧毁了民主出版社的报社办公室。
In Washington, vigilantes surrounded a jail holding Confederate prisoners.
在华盛顿，治安维持者包围了关押邦联囚犯的监狱。
Two former-Presidents — Franklin Pierce and Millard Fillmore — faced angry crowds outside their homes after they failed to show evidence of mourning.
两位前总统——富兰克林·皮尔斯和米勒德·菲尔莫尔——在未能表现出哀悼的迹象后，在家门口面对愤怒的人群。
James L.
詹姆斯·L。
Swanson, writer: : It was a dangerous time.
斯旺森，作家：那是一个危险的时期。
Up to 200 people were murdered in the streets of America’s cities within two or three days of the Lincoln assassination.
林肯遇刺事件发生后的两三天内，美国城市的街道上就有多达 200 人被谋杀。
Narrator: : None suffered more in the hysteria than the Booth family itself.
旁白：：没有人比布斯家族本身更受歇斯底里的折磨。
Fearing for his life, Edwin Booth stationed guards outside of his New York home.
由于担心自己的生命安全，埃德温·布斯在纽约的家外派了警卫。
“Think no more of him as your brother,” Edwin wrote his sister Asia, “He is dead to us now, as he soon must be to all the world.” Within days, federal agents raided Asia Booth’s home where they discovered a trove of papers, including a personal manifesto, which her brother John had asked her to keep safe.
“不要再把他当作你的兄弟了，”埃德温写信给他的妹妹阿西亚，“他现在对我们来说已经死了，就像他很快对全世界来说也必将死一样。”几天之内，联邦特工突袭了阿莎·布斯的家，在那里他们发现了一堆文件，其中包括她的哥哥约翰要求她妥善保管的一份个人宣言。
John Wilkes Booth (Will Patton): : Right or wrong, God judge me, not man.
约翰·威尔克斯·布斯（威尔·巴顿）：无论对错，审判我的是上帝，而不是人。
For four years have I waited, hoped, and prayed for the dark clouds to break, and for a restoration of our former sunshine.
四年来，我一直在等待、希望和祈祷，希望乌云散去，恢复我们以前的阳光。
To wait longer would be a crime.
等待更长的时间将是一种犯罪。
God’s will be done, I go to see and share the bitter end.
天意成行，我去看看，分担苦果。
Narrator: : In the late afternoon of April 15th, Dr. Samuel Mudd, finally realizing the danger he was in, ordered Booth and Herold from his home.
旁白： 4 月 15 日下午晚些时候，塞缪尔·穆德博士终于意识到自己所处的危险，命令布斯和赫罗德离开家。
Terry Alford, historian: : Booth was heavily armed, in his house, with his wife and four children.
特里·阿尔福德（Terry Alford），历史学家：：布斯和他的妻子以及四个孩子在家里全副武装。
Mudd simply could not afford to host a shootout in the family parlor.
穆德根本无力在家里的客厅里举办枪战。
So his idea was to get Booth out of there, get gone and pray for good luck.
所以他的想法是让布斯离开那里，走开并祈祷好运。
Narrator: : The fugitives rode off in the direction of the Zekiah swamp, a nearly impassable snarl of creeks and bogs bordering the Potomac.
旁白：逃亡者向泽基亚沼泽方向出发，这是一片与波托马克河接壤的几乎无法通行的小溪和沼泽。
They wandered in the swamp for several hours, until they found the home of a known Confederate sympathizer who directed them to a thicket of pine trees on his property.
他们在沼泽地里徘徊了几个小时，直到找到了一位著名的南部邦联同情者的家，他带他们去了他家附近的一片松树林。
Terry Alford, historian: : This is a real thick stand of young pine trees so thick in fact that the visibility in there was only thirty, forty feet at the maximum.
特里·阿尔福德（Terry Alford），历史学家：：这是一片真正茂密的小松树丛，事实上，那里的能见度最大只有三十、四十英尺。
Narrator: : In the morning, the fugitives were awakened by a series of short whistles.
旁白：：早上，逃亡者被一连串短促的口哨声吵醒。
An Agent of the Confederate Underground named Thomas Jones had been alerted to their presence in the Pine Thicket.
一位名叫托马斯·琼斯（Thomas Jones）的地下同盟特工收到了他们出现在松树林的警报。
James L.
詹姆斯·L。
Swanson, writer: : Thomas Jones told Booth, 'You have to stay in this pine thicket.
斯旺森，作家：托马斯·琼斯告诉布斯，“你必须留在这片松树林里。”
The troops are everywhere.
军队无处不在。
You can’t outrun them.
你无法超越他们。
The trick is going to be, you stay in place while the soldiers pass through the area and move on, then when the moment is safe I’ll take you down to the river and we’ll cross.’
诀窍是，当士兵穿过该地区并继续前进时，你留在原地，然后在安全的时候我会带你到河边，然后我们就过河了。
Terry Alford, historian: : Besides the occasional visit from Jones, usually in the late morning, Booth and Herold were left alone in the pine thicket.
特里·奥尔福德（Terry Alford），历史学家：：除了琼斯偶尔来访（通常是在上午），布斯和赫罗德独自留在松树林里。
It was obviously quite lonely in there, and close enough to the road from time to time to hear the pursuers riding up and down it.
那里显然很偏僻，而且离马路很近，时不时能听到追赶者在马路上来来往往的声音。
On one occasion they even heard voices of these Union cavalrymen shouting at each other.
有一次，他们甚至听到这些联盟骑兵互相喊叫的声音。
Narrator: : It was cold and wet, but the fugitives could not light a fire for fear of discovery.
旁白：：天气又冷又湿，但逃亡者不敢生火，以免被发现。
To quiet their horses, Herald led them deep into the swamp and shot them, allowing their bodies to disappear into the thick ooze.
为了让他们的马安静下来，先驱者带领他们深入沼泽并向他们开枪，让他们的尸体消失在浓稠的软泥中。
Terry Alford, historian: : Booth asks Jones of course for food, and news, and particularly newspapers.
特里·阿尔福德（Terry Alford），历史学家：：布斯当然向琼斯要食物、新闻，尤其是报纸。
He wanted to know what the public thought about the assassination.
他想知道公众对暗杀事件有何看法。
What were the reviews of this final performance of his.
对于他的这最后一场表演，大家的评价是怎样的呢？
And when he got the papers from Jones, he was absolutely stunned.
当他从琼斯那里拿到文件时，他完全惊呆了。
The country was furious with him.
国家对他感到愤怒。
From right to left across the spectrum, from Copperheads to radicals to Southerners to Northerners, they denounced Booth in blistering language.
从右到左，从铜斑蛇到激进分子，从南方人到北方人，他们都用尖刻的语言谴责布斯。
Narrator: : His head once filled with visions of triumph, Booth now staggered from the sheer scale of the betrayal.
旁白：布斯的脑海里曾经充满了胜利的愿景，现在却因背叛的规模而感到震惊。
John F.
约翰·F.
Andrews, Shakespearean Scholar: : I don’t think there’s any doubt that John Wilkes Booth expected to be remembered as a noble patriot, as someone who had in effect become the American Brutus.
莎士比亚学者安德鲁斯：我认为毫无疑问，约翰·威尔克斯·布斯希望被人们铭记为一位高贵的爱国者，因为他实际上已经成为美国的布鲁图斯。
Edward Steers Jr., writer: : He had liberated the country from under this terrible despot’s heel and the thanks that he got was to be treated as some sort of base villain.
小爱德华·斯蒂尔斯（Edward Steers Jr.），作家：：他将国家从这个可怕的暴君的脚下解放出来，而他得到的感谢却被视为某种卑鄙的恶棍。
Terry Alford, historian: : Booth had on him a little pocket notebook that he had purchased the preceding year, and in it he began to write down his reaction to the reaction of the public to the murder of Lincoln.
特里·奥尔福德，历史学家：布斯身上有一本他前一年购买的小笔记本，他开始在里面写下他对公众对林肯被谋杀的反应的反应。
James L.
詹姆斯·L。
Swanson, writer: : He wanted to write about what he did.
斯旺森，作家：：他想写下他所做的事情。
He wanted to justify what he did.
他想为自己的所作所为辩护。
And he wanted to be remembered.
他希望被记住。
These were his notes to the play; These were the director’s notes.
这些是他对该剧的笔记；这些是导演的笔记。
He had to leave that behind.
他必须把它抛在脑后。
He didn’t want to vanish from history without leaving us his own voice.
他不想在没有给我们留下他自己的声音的情况下从历史中消失。
John Wilkes Booth (Will Patton): : I struck boldly and not as the papers say.
约翰·威尔克斯·布斯（威尔·巴顿）：我大胆出击，并不像报纸上所说的那样。
I walked with a firm step through a thousand of his friends, was stopped but pushed on.
我迈着坚定的步伐穿过他的一千个朋友，被停下来，但又被推着走。
I passed all his pickets, rode 60 miles that night with the bones of my leg tearing my flesh with every jump.
那天晚上，我穿过了他所有的纠察线，骑行了 60 英里，每次跳跃，我的腿骨都撕裂着我的肉。
I can never repent it.
我永远无法后悔。
Our country owed all her troubles to him and God simply made me the instrument of His punishment.
我们的国家所有的麻烦都是他造成的，上帝只是让我成为他惩罚的工具。
Narrator: : The day after Lincoln’s death, April 16, was Easter Sunday.
旁白：：林肯去世后的第二天，4 月 16 日，是复活节。
In a nation steeped in religion, on the holiest day of the year, churches and Cathedrals across the land were swelled to the rafters and draped in black.
在一个充满宗教信仰的国家，在一年中最神圣的日子里，全国各地的教堂和大教堂都膨胀到了椽子，并披上了黑色的帷幔。
In parishes from Maine to California, ministers tore up their Easter sermons and replaced them with lamentations.
从缅因州到加利福尼亚州的教区，牧师们撕毁了复活节布道，并用哀歌取而代之。
Allen C.
艾伦·C.
Guelzo, historian: : Preachers in church after church, in pulpit after pulpit, seized upon the extraordinary conjunction of this event and all these events of religious history.
历史学家盖尔佐：：一个又一个教堂、一个又一个讲坛上的传教士抓住了这一事件与宗教历史上所有这些事件的非凡结合。
And they began drawing the inevitable connection that as Christ had died to save men’s souls; Lincoln had died to save the Union.
他们开始建立不可避免的联系，即基督为拯救人类的灵魂而死；林肯为拯救联邦而死。
James M.
詹姆斯·M。
McPherson, historian: : The parallels with Christ on the cross could not escape anybody.
历史学家麦克弗森：任何人都无法忽视与十字架上的基督的相似之处。
Lincoln was assassinated on Good Friday.
林肯在耶稣受难日被刺杀。
He had taken on the burdens of the whole nation on his own shoulders, and for that he was crucified.
他用自己的肩膀承担了整个国家的重担，为此他被钉在十字架上。
Here is a man like Jesus, who, was killed to save the rest of us.
这是一个像耶稣一样的人，他为了拯救我们其他人而被杀。
James L.
詹姆斯·L。
Swanson, writer: : It was with the assassination that the myth of Abraham Lincoln was born.
斯旺森，作家：：随着刺杀事件，亚伯拉罕·林肯的神话诞生了。
Lincoln was not universally liked or beloved during his presidency.
林肯在担任总统期间并没有受到普遍的喜爱或爱戴。
Millions of people hated him.
数百万人恨他。
Once he was assassinated everything changed.
当他被暗杀后，一切都改变了。
Narrator: : Amid the songs of praise for Lincoln, there were cries for revenge.
旁白：：在赞美林肯的歌声中，夹杂着复仇的呼声。
“Let the (South) perish,” thundered one Northern minister.
“让（南方）灭亡吧，”一位北方部长怒吼道。
“In the grave of our murdered President, let the last vestige of them be buried.”
“在我们被谋杀的总统的坟墓里，让他们最后的遗迹被埋葬。”
Gene Smith, writer: : It wasn’t enough that they had revolted for four and a half long years.
吉恩·史密斯，作家：：他们反抗了四年半还不够。
That they had slain on the field of battle the cream of a generation, that they had destroyed themselves.
他们在战场上杀死了一代人的精英，他们也毁掉了自己。
Now, to top it off, they had killed Abraham Lincoln, shot in the back in the presence of his wife.
现在，最糟糕的是，他们杀死了亚伯拉罕·林肯，在他妻子在场的情况下从背部中枪。
The South had indicted, tried, and convicted itself of irredeemable evil.
南方已经起诉、审判并宣判自己犯下了不可挽回的罪恶。
Narrator: : In the occupied sections of the Confederacy, many feared retribution and publicly expressed their deepest condolences.
旁白：：在联邦占领区，许多人担心遭到报复，并公开表达了最深切的哀悼。
But in private, many praised Booth as “our Brutus.”
但私下里，许多人称赞布斯是“我们的布鲁特斯”。
“After all the heaviness and gloom,” wrote one Southern woman, “this blow to our enemies comes like a gleam of light.
一位南方妇女写道：“经历了所有的沉重和阴郁之后，这次对我们敌人的打击就像一道曙光。
We have suffered 'til we feel savage.
我们一直在受苦，直到我们感到自己很野蛮。
Our hated enemy has met the just reward of his life.” More than 60 hours after Lincoln’s assassination, the nation was still in a state of agitated suspense.
我们可恨的敌人已经得到了他一生中应得的报应。”林肯遇刺60多个小时后，全国仍处于焦灼悬念之中。
The pressure to capture John Wilkes Booth was building.
抓捕约翰·威尔克斯·布斯的压力越来越大。
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Swanson, writer: : The public demanded that Booth and his conspirators be seized.
斯旺森，作家：：公众要求逮捕布斯和他的同谋者。
And it was frustrating that day after day passed.
日子一天天过去，令人沮丧。
Booth escapes Washington.
布斯逃离华盛顿。
Then he vanishes into Maryland.
然后他消失在马里兰州。
Then no one knows where he went.
然后没人知道他去了哪里。
Edward Steers Jr., writer: : Reports were coming in from everywhere: Booth was dressed as a woman, living in the basement of some house in Washington.
小爱德华·斯蒂尔斯（Edward Steers Jr.），编剧： ：报告从四面八方传来：布斯打扮成女人，住在华盛顿某所房子的地下室里。
He was seen in Philadelphia in another disguise.
有人在费城看到他以另一种伪装出现。
Several people were arrested in the North simply because they bore a resemblance to John Wilkes Booth.
有几个人在北方被捕，仅仅是因为他们与约翰·威尔克斯·布斯长得很像。
Terry Alford, historian: : There was a fear.
历史学家特里·奥尔福德：：有一种恐惧。
The South was so disordered and chaotic with Confederate armies disbanding, groups of guys going here and there on horseback, Booth could easily get lost in that mix.
南部邦联军队解散，一群群人骑着马到处走，布斯很容易在这种混乱中迷路。
Narrator: : On April 17th, the government’s luck changed.
旁白：：4月17日，政府的运气发生了变化。
Acting on a tip, soldiers raided Mary Surratt’s boarding house in Washington, where Booth and his accomplices had often met.
根据线报，士兵们突袭了玛丽·苏拉特在华盛顿的寄宿处，布斯和他的同伙经常在那里见面。
As they began to question Mrs. Surratt, a knock was heard at the front door.
当他们开始询问苏拉特夫人时，前门传来敲门声。
It was Lewis Powell, the would-be assassin of Secretary of State William Seward.
这是刘易斯·鲍威尔（Lewis Powell），可能刺杀国务卿威廉·苏厄德（William Seward）。
Terry Alford, historian: : Powell was a stranger to Washington, D.C. and he wasn’t the first stranger to get lost in this maze of streets.
历史学家特里·阿尔福德：鲍威尔对华盛顿特区来说是个陌生人，他也不是第一个在这片迷宫般的街道中迷路的陌生人。
With nowhere to go, no food, no money, knowing no one he went to one of the only houses he knew in Washington, the home of the Surratts.
由于无处可去，没有食物，没有钱，谁也不认识，他去了华盛顿他所认识的唯一一所房子，苏拉特一家的家。
Unfortunately for him, just at the moment that he chose to come, late one night, detectives were there interrogating Mrs. Surratt.
对他来说不幸的是，就在他选择来的那一刻，一天深夜，侦探们在那里审问苏拉特夫人。
When he walked in, he looked implausible to them and he got arrested.
当他走进去时，他们对他的态度显得难以置信，结果他被捕了。
Narrator: : Tipped off by a letter discovered in Booth’s hotel room, authorities also took into custody Michael O’Laughlen and Samuel Arnold.
旁白：：根据在布斯酒店房间发现的一封信的消息，当局还拘留了迈克尔·奥劳伦和塞缪尔·阿诺德。
Narrator: : The same day, they arrested Edmond Spangler, a stagehand at Fords, whom they suspected of having aided Booth’s escape.
旁白：同一天，他们逮捕了福特的舞台工作人员埃德蒙·斯潘格勒，怀疑他帮助布斯逃跑。
On April 20th, George Atzerodt was arrested on his cousin’s farm after he was overheard boasting about his participation in the conspiracy.
4 月 20 日，乔治·阿泽罗特 (George Atzerodt) 在他表弟的农场被捕，因为有人无意中听到他吹嘘自己参与了这一阴谋。
Most of the prisoners were taken aboard the ironclad Montauk, where they were ordered to wear padded hoods and confined to three-foot by eight-foot cells.
大多数囚犯被带到铁甲蒙托克号上，他们被命令戴上带衬垫的头罩，并被限制在三英尺乘八英尺的牢房里。
Edward Steers Jr., writer: : While the government had most of the conspirators in tow now and in custody, Booth and Herold of course were still out there and the government really did not have any good idea where they were.
小爱德华·斯蒂尔斯（Edward Steers Jr.），作家：：虽然政府现在已经逮捕并拘留了大部分同谋者，但布斯和赫罗德当然仍然在那里，政府真的不知道他们在哪里。
Narrator: : On April 20, Secretary Stanton announced the largest reward ever offered by the federal government — $100,000 for the capture of John Wilkes Booth and David Herold.
旁白：4 月 20 日，斯坦顿部长宣布联邦政府悬赏 10 万美元抓捕约翰·威尔克斯·布斯 (John Wilkes Booth) 和大卫·赫罗德 (David Herold)。
“Let the stain of innocent blood be removed from the land by the arrest and punishment of the murderers,” Stanton wrote.
斯坦顿写道：“通过逮捕和惩罚凶手，将无辜者的血迹从这片土地上抹去。”
“Every man should consider his own conscience charged with this solemn duty and rest neither night nor day until it be accomplished.” It was the beginning of the largest manhunt in American history.
“每个人都应该考虑到自己的良心担负着这项庄严的职责，并且日日夜夜不眠不休，直到它完成。”这是美国历史上最大规模的搜捕行动的开始。
For five days and nights, as thousands of soldiers scoured the area, Booth and Herold had hidden safely in the Pine Thicket.
五天五夜，数千名士兵搜查该地区，布斯和赫罗德安全地躲在松树林里。
Terry Alford, historian: : If he could just get out of Maryland, get over to Virginia, he could receive proper medical care, he would find sympathetic individuals, people who could appreciate what he had done.
历史学家特里·奥尔福德：如果他能离开马里兰州，前往弗吉尼亚州，他就能得到适当的医疗护理，他会找到有同情心的人，能够欣赏他所做之事的人。
Finally, Jones determined that the area was clear enough of Union pursuers to attempt a crossing.
最后，琼斯确定该地区足够清晰，联邦追击者可以尝试穿越。
They began about a three to four mile very cautious walk down cart lanes and public roads in the direction of Jones’ farm and the river.
他们开始小心翼翼地沿着马车车道和公共道路向琼斯农场和河流方向行走约三到四英里。
Luck was on their side for once at least.
幸运至少有一次站在了他们这一边。
Nobody came out, nobody noticed them, no one passed along the road.
没有人出来，没有人注意到他们，路上也没有人经过。
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Swanson, writer: : It’s dark, it’s quiet, and they make it safely down the road and across the open country.
作家斯旺森：天很黑，很安静，他们安全地沿着道路穿过空旷的乡村。
Then he takes them down to the crossing point.
然后他带他们到过境点。
It’s a bluff that leads down to the river.
这是一个通向河边的悬崖。
Edward Steers Jr., writer: : Jones put the two of them in a boat, he gave them a compass and a candle and pointed on the compass the number of degrees where they should head for, pushed the boat out into the water and God blessed them.
小爱德华·斯蒂尔斯（Edward Steers Jr.），编剧：琼斯把他们两个放在船上，给了他们一个指南针和一支蜡烛，并在指南针上指出了他们应该前往的度数，然后将船推入水中，上帝祝福他们。
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Swanson, writer: : All Booth had to do was cross the Potomac that night and he might make it to Virginia, might make it to the Deep South and then it would be almost impossible to catch him.
斯旺森，作家：布斯所要做的就是那天晚上穿过波托马克河，他可能会到达弗吉尼亚州，可能会到达南方腹地，然后几乎不可能抓住他。
So there Booth and Herold are in the middle of the night.
布斯和赫罗德正处于半夜。
The river is dark; it’s as black as ink, and they row the wrong way.
河水一片漆黑；漆黑如墨，他们划错了方向。
Instead of rowing west across the river, they start heading north and west and they end up in Maryland.
他们没有向西划过河，而是开始向北和向西行驶，最终到达马里兰州。
They haven’t even left Maryland after a night of rowing.
经过一夜的划船之后，他们甚至还没有离开马里兰州。
Narrator: : As dawn broke, Booth and Herold took refuge in the weeds beside the River.
旁白：黎明破晓时，布斯和赫罗德躲进河边的杂草丛中。
Exhausted, Booth again took out his notebook to write.
布斯筋疲力尽，再次拿出笔记本开始写。
John Wilkes Booth (Will Patton): : I have been hunted like a dog through swamps and woods, wet cold and starving.
约翰·威尔克斯·布斯（威尔·帕顿饰）：我像狗一样在沼泽和树林中被追捕，又湿又冷又挨饿。
With every man’s hand against me, I am here in despair.
每个人都向我伸出援手，我感到绝望。
And why?
为什么？
For doing what Brutus was honored for.
因为他做了布鲁图斯受人尊敬的事情。
And yet I, for striking down a greater tyrant than he ever knew, am looked upon as a common cutthroat.
然而，我却因为打倒了一个比他所认识的更强大的暴君而被视为一个普通的杀手。
I think I have done well, though I am abandoned with the curse of Cain upon me when if the world knew my heart that one blow would have made me great.
我认为我做得很好，尽管我被该隐的诅咒抛弃了，如果世界知道我的心，那么一击就会让我变得伟大。
Narrator: : On April 21, a special train departed Washington, DC.
旁白：：4月21日，一列专列从华盛顿特区出发。
It carried the remains of Abraham Lincoln and his son Willie, disinterred so he could be reburied next to his father.
它载有亚伯拉罕·林肯和他儿子威利的遗体，被挖掘出来，以便他可以被重新埋葬在他父亲的旁边。
For the next 12 days, the train would reverse the route Lincoln had taken four years earlier on his way to his first inauguration.
在接下来的 12 天里，火车将逆行林肯四年前第一次就职典礼时所走的路线。
In Philadelphia, Lincoln’s casket was displayed in Independence Hall, while a line of mourners stretching more than three miles waited to pay their respects.
在费城，林肯的灵柩陈列在独立厅，哀悼者的队伍绵延超过三英里，等待表达敬意。
In New York, the next day, Lincoln’s hearse was led down 5th Avenue by 16 magnificent steeds, as bells from Trinity Church rang out.
第二天，在纽约，随着三一教堂的钟声响起，林肯的灵车由 16 匹雄伟的骏马牵着沿着第五大道行驶。
More than half a million people, a quarter of the city’s population, lined the route.
超过 50 万人（占该市人口的四分之一）沿着路线排队。
From New York, Lincoln’s train made its way slowly west.
林肯的火车从纽约出发，缓缓向西行驶。
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Guelzo, historian: : In remote areas people would come miles to line the track simply to stand and watch, a newspaper reporter who was with the funeral train looked out the windows, he could just see crowds upon crowds of people doing nothing but standing silently.
历史学家古尔佐：在偏远地区，人们会不远万里来到铁轨旁，只是为了站着观看，一名随送葬列车的报社记者向窗外望去，他只能看到成群结队的人除了静静地站着什么都不做。
Harold Holzer, writer: : They’re there simply to lift their caps or bow their heads as this car goes by and what they see for just the fleeting second is worth the effort and the wait, and that is a soldier standing on guard in front of a big coffin and a little coffin.
哈罗德·霍尔泽（Harold Holzer），作家：：当汽车驶过时，他们只是举起帽子或低下头，而他们在转瞬即逝的一秒钟所看到的一切都是值得付出努力和等待的，那就是一名士兵站在一个大棺材和一个小棺材前站岗。
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Swanson, writer: : The outpouring of grief and emotion during that 1,700 mile journey on the funeral train from Washington to Springfield was not just for Lincoln.
作家斯旺森：在从华盛顿到斯普林菲尔德的葬礼列车上 1,700 英里的旅程中，悲伤和情感的流露不仅仅是林肯的专利。
The American people mourned their president, but they mourned every son, every brother, every husband, every father lost in that war.
美国人民哀悼他们的总统，但他们哀悼在那场战争中丧生的每一个儿子、每一个兄弟、每一个丈夫、每一个父亲。
David Blight, historian: : When people wept for Lincoln, or when they went to their diaries, as many did, and they drew black around the pages, they were really weeping for themselves.
历史学家戴维·布莱特（David Blight）：当人们为林肯哭泣时，或者当他们像许多人那样翻阅日记时，他们在日记周围画黑，他们实际上是在为自己哭泣。
They were weeping for their own kids.
他们为自己的孩子哭泣。
They were weeping for their own losses.
他们为自己的损失而哭泣。
We mourn for ourselves even when we mourn a great public leader.
即使我们哀悼一位伟大的公共领袖，我们也会为自己哀悼。
Narrator: : “The nation rises up at his coming,” wrote one poet.
旁白：一位诗人写道：“他的到来使整个国家奋起。”
“Cities and States are his pallbearers and cannon beat the hours with solemn procession.
“城市和州是他的护柩者，大炮以庄严的游行敲响了时间。
Give him place ye prairies!
草原啊，给他地方吧！
Ye winds that move over the mighty spaces of the West, chant his requiem!
吹过西方浩瀚空间的风，吟唱他的安魂曲！
Ye people, behold a martyr”.
你们人民，请看一位烈士”。
As Lincoln’s funeral train made its slow way across the country, the Navy boat John S.
当林肯的葬礼列车缓慢地穿越全国时，海军船约翰·S·林肯号（John S.
Ide was steaming down the Potomac River.
艾德正沿着波托马克河顺流而下。
On board were 25 soldiers from the 16th New York Cavalry and two detectives: Luther Baker and Everton Conger.
车上有来自第 16 纽约骑兵团的 25 名士兵和两名侦探：路德·贝克 (Luther Baker) 和埃弗顿·康格 (Everton Conger)。
The search party had formed as a result of a fortunate case of mistaken identity.
搜查队的成立是由于一次幸运的身份错误事件的结果。
Terry Alford, historian: : Union detectives and Union ships were watching the Potomac River very closely and some individuals were seen to have crossed it.
历史学家特里·奥尔福德：联邦侦探和联邦船只正在密切监视波托马克河，有人看到有人跨过了它。
They weren’t Booth and Herold but they were mistaken for Booth and Herold.
他们不是布斯和赫罗德，但他们被误认为是布斯和赫罗德。
Narrator: : In fact, the real fugitives were only a few miles ahead at a second river crossing along the Rappahannock.
旁白：事实上，真正的逃亡者就在前方几英里处的拉帕汉诺克河第二个渡口处。
Having reached the small village of Port Conway they met three Confederate soldiers who agreed to escort them deeper into Virginia.
到达康威港小村庄后，他们遇到了三名南方联盟士兵，他们同意护送他们深入弗吉尼亚州。
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Swanson, writer: : These Confederates say we know a place to take you.
斯旺森，作家：：这些同盟者说我们知道带你去哪里。
When we get over the river we’re going to take you to the Garrett farm.
当我们过了河后，我们将带您去加勒特农场。
Old man Garrett will help you.
加勒特老人会帮助你。
Narrator: : Two hours later, Booth and Herold arrived at the farmhouse owned by Richard Garrett, where they were introduced as Confederate soldiers just back from the war.
旁白： 两个小时后，布斯和赫罗德到达了理查德·加勒特拥有的农舍，在那里他们被介绍为刚从战争中归来的南方联盟士兵。
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Swanson, writer: : The image of Booth sitting on that front porch, smoking tobacco, playing on the front lawn with the Garrett children, dazzling them with his compass, he seems like he’s relaxed for the first time, that he thinks he can get away.
斯旺森，作家：布斯坐在前廊上，抽烟，与加勒特孩子们在前草坪上玩耍，用指南针让他们眼花缭乱，他似乎第一次放松下来，他认为自己可以逃脱。
The whole world is hunting for him.
全世界都在追捕他。
There was a frantic pursuit, and here he is, relaxing at the Garrett farm.
一场疯狂的追捕，而他现在正在加勒特农场放松。
Narrator: : Unbeknownst to Booth, the federal Cavalry was closing in.
旁白：：布斯不知道的是，联邦骑兵正在逼近。
Terry Alford, historian: : When the federal pursuers got to the ferry at Port Conway, the wife of the ferryman told them that three Confederate soldiers had taken two men, one with a broken leg across the river.
特里·奥尔福德（Terry Alford），历史学家：当联邦追击者到达康威港的渡轮时，摆渡人的妻子告诉他们，三名南方邦联士兵已经带着两名男子过河，其中一人腿部骨折。
As you could guess the cavalrymen were very, very excited to hear this.
你可以猜到，骑兵们听到这个消息非常非常兴奋。
Narrator: : That night the Cavalry regiment found one of the Confederate soldiers and forced him to disclose Booth’s whereabouts.
旁白：：那天晚上，骑兵团找到了一名南方联盟士兵，并强迫他透露布斯的行踪。
At around two am they arrived at the Garrett farm.
凌晨两点左右，他们到达了加勒特农场。
Booth and Herold were sleeping in an old tobacco barn on the property.
布斯和赫罗德睡在庄园里的一个旧烟草谷仓里。
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Swanson, writer: : Booth and Herold are up by then.
斯旺森（Swanson），作家： ：布斯和赫罗德那时已经起床了。
The dogs were barking, they could hear the horses coming.
狗在吠叫，他们能听到马匹过来的声音。
Edward Steers Jr., writer: : Booth and Herold are now completely surrounded by Union cavalry and there’s no escape.
小爱德华·斯蒂尔斯（Edward Steers Jr.），编剧：：布斯和赫罗德现在完全被联邦骑兵包围，无处可逃。
David Herold wants to surrender and tells Booth he wants out of this now.
大卫·赫罗德想要投降，并告诉布斯他现在想摆脱这一切。
He sends Herold out who surrenders to the troopers.
他派赫罗德出去，后者向士兵投降。
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Swanson, writer: : Booth has certainly concluded by now it’s either escape or death.
斯旺森，作家：布斯现在肯定已经得出结论，要么逃跑，要么死亡。
Unbelievably, he engages the soldiers in negotiation and dialogue.
令人难以置信的是，他与士兵们进行谈判和对话。
Edward Steers Jr., writer: : He tells Conger and his men to back off a hundred feet, let him come out shooting and they’ll have a standoff.
小爱德华·斯蒂尔斯（Edward Steers Jr.），编剧：：他告诉康格和他的手下后退一百英尺，让他出来射击，然后他们就会陷入对峙。
And of course Conger isn’t going to have a standoff with Booth.
当然，康格不会与布斯发生对峙。
He wants to take him alive.
他想把他活活带走。
Narrator: : Finally, at 3am, the detectives ordered the barn to be set on fire.
旁白：：最后，凌晨 3 点，侦探们下令放火焚烧谷仓。
“The blaze lit up the black recesses of the great barn until every wasp’s nest and cobweb was luminous,” a witness remembered.
“大火照亮了大谷仓的黑色凹处，直到每个黄蜂巢和蜘蛛网都发光了，”一位目击者回忆道。
“About the center of the barn, he stopped, drew himself up to his full height and seemed to take in the entire situation.
“在谷仓中央，他停了下来，挺直身子，似乎能看到整个情况。
There was a carbine in one hand, a revolver in the other.
一只手拿着卡宾枪，另一只手拿着左轮手枪。
Suddenly he threw down his carbine, dropped his crutch, raised the revolver and made a spring for the door.”
突然，他扔下卡宾枪，扔下拐杖，举起左轮手枪，冲向门。”
Terry Alford, historian: : As he was coming in their direction a shot rang out.
历史学家特里·奥尔福德：：当他朝他们的方向走来时，一声枪响。
Booth had been shot in the neck by someone and fell to the ground.
布斯的脖子被人开枪击中，倒在了地上。
The doors were flung open, they went in and they grabbed Booth and dragged him outside before the barn caught full fire.
门被猛地打开，他们进去抓住布斯，在谷仓着火之前把他拖到外面。
Narrator: : A young officer named Boston Corbett had pulled the trigger, later claiming that God had ordered him to do so.
旁白：一位名叫波士顿·科贝特的年轻军官扣动了扳机，后来声称是上帝命令他这样做的。
The bullet passed through Booth’s neck, severing his spinal cord.
子弹穿过布斯的脖子，切断了他的脊髓。
“Booth had all the appearance of a dead man,” Lieutenant Conger recalled, “but when I got back to him, his eyes and mouth were moving.
“布斯看上去就像一个死人，”康格中尉回忆道，“但当我回到他身边时，他的眼睛和嘴巴都在动。
I put my ear down close …
我把耳朵贴近……
and finally I understood him to say, “Tell mother I die for my country.”
最后我明白他说的是：“告诉妈妈我为我的国家而死。”
Gene Smith, writer: : Booth is dragged out feet-first from the barn which is crackling in flames.
吉恩·史密斯（Gene Smith），编剧：布斯被从着火的谷仓里拖了出来，脚先着地。
The show is over.
演出结束了。
The lighting can now be turned out.
现在可以关闭照明。
Narrator: : Booth was laid prostrate on a blanket.
旁白：：布斯躺在毯子上。
With the sun just coming up over the horizon, he managed to utter one, final line.
太阳刚刚从地平线升起，他终于说出了最后一句话。
James L.
詹姆斯·L。
Swanson, writer: : Booth can barely speak.
斯旺森，作家：：布斯几乎不能说话。
He asks to see his hands.
他要求看他的手。
And then he speaks these last words, looking at his hands, “useless, useless.”
然后他看着自己的双手，说出最后一句话：“没用，没用。”
Narrator: : On May 12th, eight defendants stood trial for the murder of Abraham Lincoln.
旁白：：5月12日，八名被告因谋杀亚伯拉罕·林肯而受审。
Terry Alford, historian: : The only person of course who died in the manhunt was Booth.
历史学家特里·奥尔福德：：当然，唯一在搜捕中死亡的人是布斯。
All of his friends were captured and put on trial.
他所有的朋友都被抓获并受到审判。
And they had to face something in a way even worse than a bullet in the neck; they had to face national scorn, opprobrium and a military trial.
他们必须面对比脖子上的子弹更糟糕的事情；他们不得不面对全国的蔑视、责难和军事审判。
Narrator: : Booth’s accomplices — Davey Herold, George Atzerodt, and Lewis Powell — were sentenced to death.
旁白：布斯的同伙——戴维·赫罗德、乔治·阿泽罗特和刘易斯·鲍威尔——被判处死刑。
Booth’s landlady, Mary Surratt, who had knowledge only of the kidnapping plan, also received a death sentence.
布斯的女房东玛丽·苏拉特只知道绑架计划，也被判处死刑。
The others — O’Laughlen, Arnold and Mudd — were sentenced to life in prison under hard labor.
其他人——奥劳伦、阿诺德和穆德——被判处终身监禁和苦役。
On July 7th, on the grounds of the Old Arsenal Prison in Washington, the four condemned conspirators were led up 13 steps to the gallows.
7 月 7 日，在华盛顿老阿森纳监狱，四名被定罪的同谋者被抬上 13 级台阶，走向绞刑架。
Edward Steers Jr., writer: : The hoods were placed on them; the nooses were fashioned around their necks.
小爱德华·斯蒂尔斯 (Edward Steers Jr.)，作家： ：给他们戴上了头罩；套索被套在他们的脖子上。
The chairs were removed.
椅子被移走了。
The executioner gave a signal by clapping his hands three times.
刽子手拍了三下手，发出信号。
The platforms fell and the four condemned conspirators dropped to their death.
平台倒塌，四名被定罪的同谋者坠楼身亡。
Narrator: : Booth’s body had been taken back to Washington.
旁白：：布斯的遗体已被运回华盛顿。
Following an inquest, Secretary Stanton ordered the corpse to be buried on the grounds of a federal prison.
调查结束后，斯坦顿部长下令将尸体埋在联邦监狱内。
It was later dug up and reburied in an unmarked grave in the Booth family plot in Baltimore.
后来它被挖出来并重新埋在巴尔的摩布斯家族一块没有标记的坟墓里。
Rumors swirled around John Wilkes Booth for decades.
围绕约翰·威尔克斯·布斯的谣言已经流传了几十年。
Many were willing to believe improbable stories: that he had escaped the Garrett barn and gone on to live in Oklahoma, only to die years later, his mummified corpse displayed in a carnival.
许多人愿意相信不可能的故事：他逃离了加勒特谷仓，继续住在俄克拉荷马州，几年后就去世了，他的木乃伊尸体被展示在狂欢节上。
James L.
詹姆斯·L。
Swanson, writer: : The historical memory of Booth is that he was the flawed young tragic actor who wrongfully sacrificed his greatness and his life for a cause he held dear.
斯旺森，作家：布斯的历史记忆是，他是一个有缺陷的年轻悲剧演员，为了他所珍视的事业错误地牺牲了自己的伟大和生命。
Booth helped perpetrate that because he performed the assassination.
布斯参与了这件事，因为他执行了暗杀行动。
He performed the escape.
他执行了逃跑。
He performed his death.
他执行了他的死亡。
And somehow he transmuted it all into America’s greatest drama.
不知何故，他把这一切变成了美国最伟大的戏剧。
And he’s tricked us into thinking it isn’t all real.
他欺骗我们，让我们认为这并不都是真的。
It’s too incredible to be real.
这太不可思议了，难以置信。
And so we forget that Lincoln suffered.
所以我们忘记了林肯受过苦。
We forget how his wife and how his children suffered.
我们忘记了他的妻子和孩子们如何受苦。
How the nation suffered.
国家如何受苦。
Narrator: : Abraham Lincoln’s body finally reached his hometown of Springfield, Illinois, on May 3rd, his face now so black with decomposition that it was barely recognizable.
旁白：亚伯拉罕·林肯的遗体终于于 5 月 3 日抵达他的家乡伊利诺伊州斯普林菲尔德，他的脸因腐烂而变黑，几乎无法辨认。
Mary Lincoln — too grief-stricken to accompany her husband’s casket on its last journey — had insisted that he be buried in a cemetery called Oak Ridge on the outskirts of town.
玛丽·林肯（Mary Lincoln）悲痛欲绝，无法陪伴丈夫的灵柩完成最后一次旅程，她坚持将他埋葬在城郊一个名为橡树岭（Oak Ridge）的墓地。
One final funeral procession was mounted, past Lincoln’s home, now draped in black.
最后一支送葬队伍经过林肯的家，现在已经披上了黑色的衣服。
Under a scorching sun, a thousand people gathered on a hillside overlooking the simple vault that would accept the bodies of Abraham and Willie Lincoln.
烈日下，一千人聚集在山坡上，俯瞰着用来安放亚伯拉罕和威利·林肯尸体的简易拱顶。
A Methodist Bishop, Matthew Simpson, gave the final benediction.
卫理公会主教马修·辛普森给予了最后的祝福。
“More people have gazed on the face of the departed than ever looked upon the face of any other departed man.
“注视过逝者面孔的人比注视过任何其他已故者面孔的人还要多。
More have looked upon the procession for 1,600 miles or more – by night and by day – by sunlight, dawn, twilight, and by torchlight than ever before watched a procession.
观看游行队伍长达 1,600 英里或更远的人——无论白天还是黑夜——无论是在阳光、黎明、黄昏还是在火炬之光下，观看游行的人数比以往任何时候都多。
He made all men feel a sense of himself.
他让所有人都感受到了他自己。
They saw in him a man whom they believed would do what is right regardless of the consequences.
他们在他身上看到了一个他们相信会做正确的事而不管后果的人。
We crown thee as our martyr, and humanity enthrones thee as her triumphant son.”
我们将你加冕为我们的烈士，人类将你视为她胜利的儿子。”
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
1865 年 4 月 14 日，亚伯拉罕·林肯遇刺身亡。
Over the next twelve days, the largest manhunt ever attempted closed in on his assassin.
在接下来的十二天里，有史以来最大规模的搜捕行动逼近了刺杀他的人。
Meet the key players involved in the assassintation of Abraham Lincoln.
认识参与刺杀亚伯拉罕·林肯的关键人物。
Filmmaker Barak Goodman describes making The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln , including dramatic recreations of the manhunt forJohn Wilkes Booth.
电影制片人巴拉克·古德曼介绍了《亚伯拉罕·林肯刺杀案》的制作过程，其中包括对约翰·威尔克斯·布斯的追捕行动的戏剧性再现。
Images of Abraham Lincoln as he lay dying filled the popular press in the days following the assassination.
刺杀事件发生后的几天里，大众媒体上充斥着亚伯拉罕·林肯临终时的照片。