When President Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865 and died the next morning at 7:22am, Vice President Andrew Johnson knew he had big shoes to fill. And while most people remember Johnson for being the first President impeached, not many know the reason why – nor do they realize he was actually a very good President under the horrible circumstances he inherited.
In my photographer’s latest YouTube episode of Jefferson’s Salute to the Presidents, Tom and I pay a fitting tribute to our 17th President – the very misunderstood Andrew Johnson. During that show, you’ll be taken on a journey from Johnson’s humble birth in Raleigh, North Carolina to his untimely death in his daughter’s home in Elizabethton, Tennessee. By the way, for all of us Yankees, that city is pronounced Liz-BETH-tun.
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