WEBVTT 00:03.360 --> 00:05.240 align:start >> WITH HIS LIFE'S HONOR IN 00:05.240 --> 00:05.100 align:start QUESTION, A FUTURE PRESIDENT 00:05.100 --> 00:07.160 align:start FOUGHT A DUEL IN LOGAN COUNTY. 00:07.160 --> 00:09.280 align:start OLD OFF AND READY WAS A WAR HE 00:09.280 --> 00:11.960 align:start ROW WHO BECAME THE 12th U.S. 00:11.960 --> 00:12.100 align:start PRESIDENT. 00:12.100 --> 00:13.100 align:start LINCOLN IS EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK 00:13.100 --> 00:16.960 align:start IN TONIGHT'S OUR TOWN, AND BOTH 00:16.960 --> 00:18.200 align:start CIVIL WAR PRESIDENTS WERE 00:18.200 --> 00:20.240 align:start KENTUCKIANS BY BIRTH. 00:20.240 --> 00:22.100 align:start IT'S HAIL TO THE CHIEF ON 00:22.100 --> 00:28.480 align:start "KENTUCKY LIFE"'S PRESIDENT'S 00:25.120 --> 00:38.720 align:start SHOW COMING RIGHT UP! 00:30.720 --> 00:44.360 align:start [ MUSIC ] 00:44.360 --> 00:45.100 align:start >> HELLO, I'M DAVIE SHUFFETT. 00:45.100 --> 00:47.440 align:start WELCOME TO "KENTUCKY LIFE"! 00:47.440 --> 00:50.680 align:start WE'RE HERE AT LEXINGTON'S 00:50.680 --> 00:57.880 align:start HISTORIC BODILY BODELY BULLOCK' 00:57.880 --> 01:00.640 align:start IT'S PERFECT PLACE FOR OUR 01:00.640 --> 01:01.880 align:start PRESIDENT'S SHOW. 01:01.880 --> 01:03.100 align:start MARY TODD ATTENDED SCHOOL NEXT 01:03.100 --> 01:06.400 align:start DOOR AND DOWN THE STREET IS 01:06.400 --> 01:08.280 align:start TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY WHOSE 01:08.280 --> 01:09.760 align:start ALUMNI INCLUDE VICE PRESIDENTS, 01:09.760 --> 01:11.160 align:start LEGISLATORS AND MORE THAN 30 01:11.160 --> 01:11.640 align:start GOVERNORS. 01:11.640 --> 01:15.120 align:start IN THEIR INAUGURATIONS, EACH OF 01:15.120 --> 01:16.840 align:start THE KENTUCKY GOVERNORS HAD TO 01:16.840 --> 01:19.400 align:start SWEAR THEY NEVER FOUGHT A DUEL. 01:19.400 --> 01:21.880 align:start BUT ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST FAMOU 01:21.880 --> 01:23.360 align:start DUEL WAS FOUGHT IN KENTUCKY WIT 01:23.360 --> 01:25.480 align:start A PARTICIPANT WHO WOULD GO ON T 01:25.480 --> 01:28.840 align:start BECOME AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT. 01:28.840 --> 01:31.240 align:start THE COMMON MISCONCEPTION ABOUT 01:31.240 --> 01:33.600 align:start DUELING IS IT WAS ALWAYS TO THE 01:33.600 --> 01:33.960 align:start DEATH. 01:33.960 --> 01:35.360 align:start >> IT WAS FAIRLY UNCOMMON IN A 01:35.360 --> 01:37.280 align:start DUEL TO TRY TO KILL EACH OTHER. 01:37.280 --> 01:39.480 align:start IN A DUEL YOU SETTLE A MATTER O 01:39.480 --> 01:39.960 align:start HONOR. 01:39.960 --> 01:41.960 align:start SO, TYPICALLY, IF YOU JUST SHOW 01:41.960 --> 01:43.600 align:start UP, CONGRATULATIONS YOU'RE NOT 01:43.600 --> 01:45.120 align:start COWARD, YOU PUT YOUR GRIEVANCES 01:45.120 --> 01:47.100 align:start ASIDE AND EVERYONE REQUIRES WIT 01:47.100 --> 02:02.880 align:start THEIR HOAR IN HONOR IN TACT. 02:02.880 --> 02:05.760 align:start JACKSON WAS A POLERRIZING 02:05.760 --> 02:05.110 align:start FIGURE. 02:05.110 --> 02:08.760 align:start YOU EITHER LOVED HIM OR HATED 02:08.760 --> 02:08.100 align:start HIM. 02:08.100 --> 02:10.160 align:start >> BEFORE HIS PRESIDENCY, 02:10.160 --> 02:12.400 align:start JACKSON WAS PRACTICING LAW IN 02:12.400 --> 02:12.840 align:start TENNESSEE. 02:12.840 --> 02:14.640 align:start HE WAS ALSO AN AVID HORSE 02:14.640 --> 02:16.100 align:start BREEDER AND THE ORIGINS OF THE 02:16.100 --> 02:18.110 align:start GRUDGE WITH CHARLES DICKINSON 02:18.110 --> 02:21.280 align:start BEGAN AT THE TRACK. 02:21.280 --> 02:22.110 align:start >> DICKINSON WENT TO A TAVERN 02:22.110 --> 02:24.240 align:start AFTERWARDS AND STARTED KIND OF 02:24.240 --> 02:25.760 align:start RUNNING HIS MOUTH A LITTLE BIT. 02:25.760 --> 02:27.640 align:start HE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT 02:27.640 --> 02:27.100 align:start JACKSON. 02:27.100 --> 02:29.110 align:start WHAT HE MOST LIKELY TALKED ABOU 02:29.110 --> 02:31.100 align:start WAS RACHEL JACKSON, ANDREW 02:31.100 --> 02:34.840 align:start JACKSON'S WIFE, BELOVED WIFE. 02:34.840 --> 02:35.600 align:start >> DICKINSON WAS REFERRING TO 02:35.600 --> 02:38.240 align:start THE FACT THAT RACHEL HAD MARRIE 02:38.240 --> 02:40.100 align:start JACKSON NOT KNOWING HER FIRST 02:40.100 --> 02:42.480 align:start HUSBAND HAD FAILED TO FINALIZE 02:42.480 --> 02:44.120 align:start THEIR DIVORCE. 02:44.120 --> 02:45.720 align:start >> JACKSON FOUND OUT ABOUT IT. 02:45.720 --> 02:47.120 align:start GIVEN THAT HE IS A GENTLEMAN ON 02:47.120 --> 02:48.840 align:start THE FRONTIER, HE FELT AS THOUGH 02:48.840 --> 02:50.110 align:start HE HAD NO CHOICE, BUT TO 02:50.110 --> 02:54.560 align:start CHALLENGE DICKINSON TO A DUEL. 02:54.560 --> 02:56.000 align:start >> DUELING WAS ILLEGAL IN 02:56.000 --> 02:57.680 align:start TENNESSEE BUT NOT IN THE BORDER 02:57.680 --> 02:58.680 align:start STATE OF KENTUCKY. 02:58.680 --> 03:00.720 align:start THE TWO CHOSE TO FACE OFF IN 03:00.720 --> 03:02.520 align:start LOGAN COUNTY WITH MANY ROOTING 03:02.520 --> 03:04.200 align:start FOR DICKINSON, WHO WAS KNOWN AS 03:04.200 --> 03:05.100 align:start THE BEST SHOT IN THE STATE OF 03:05.100 --> 03:06.240 align:start TENNESSEE. 03:06.240 --> 03:07.110 align:start >> YOU COULD TELL HOW BOTH SIDES 03:07.110 --> 03:09.760 align:start THOUGHT THE DUEL WAS GOING TO G 03:09.760 --> 03:11.110 align:start BY THE WAY THEY TRAVELED TO 03:11.110 --> 03:12.400 align:start KENTUCKY. 03:12.400 --> 03:15.640 align:start DICKINSON LOADED UP A COUPLE OF 03:15.640 --> 03:17.640 align:start WAGON, THEY GOT HIS BUDDIES 03:17.640 --> 03:18.100 align:start TOGETHER, STOPPED AT TAVERNS 03:18.100 --> 03:20.840 align:start ALONG THE WAY. 03:20.840 --> 03:23.040 align:start DICKINSON HELD SHOOTING 03:23.040 --> 03:24.240 align:start DEMONSTRATIONS. 03:24.240 --> 03:25.880 align:start FROM 20 PACES HE WOULD SHOOT 03:25.880 --> 03:27.560 align:start THROUGH A SPIDERWEB OR SOMEONE 03:27.560 --> 03:29.040 align:start WOULD YOU HOLD UP A PIECE OF 03:29.040 --> 03:30.400 align:start STRIRCHG AND HE WOULD SHOOT A 03:30.400 --> 03:31.760 align:start BULLET AND CUT IT IN HALF. 03:31.760 --> 03:33.100 align:start SO HE HAD A REPUTATION OF NOT 03:33.100 --> 03:36.080 align:start EXACTLY A GUY YOU WOULD WANT TO 03:36.080 --> 03:38.400 align:start PICK A GUN FIGHT WITH. 03:38.400 --> 03:41.120 align:start JACKSON TICK HIS BEST FRIEND AN 03:41.120 --> 03:41.110 align:start A SURGEON. 03:41.110 --> 03:43.600 align:start SO IF ONE OF YOUR SECONDS TO A 03:43.600 --> 03:45.600 align:start DUEL IS A DOCTOR, YOU HAVE AN 03:45.600 --> 03:47.400 align:start IDEA YOU'RE NOT QUITE AS 03:47.400 --> 03:48.960 align:start OPTIMISTIC AS THE OTHER GUY IS. 03:48.960 --> 03:50.200 align:start I BELIEVE BOTH WERE PRETTY SET 03:50.200 --> 03:51.100 align:start ON CARRYING THIS DUEL OUT. 03:51.100 --> 03:53.920 align:start I DO BELIEVE THAT BOTH SIDES 03:53.920 --> 03:54.110 align:start WENT TO KENTUCKY WITH THE 03:54.110 --> 03:56.880 align:start INTENTION THAT ONLY ONE WAS 03:56.880 --> 03:58.920 align:start GOING TO BE COMING BACK. 03:58.920 --> 04:01.100 align:start >> ON MAY 13, 1806, JACKSON AND 04:01.100 --> 04:04.200 align:start DICKINSON MET AT HARRISON'S MIL 04:04.200 --> 04:05.320 align:start ON THE RED RIVER. 04:05.320 --> 04:07.920 align:start BY DESIGN, JACKSON LET DICKINSO 04:07.920 --> 04:08.110 align:start FIRE FIRST. 04:08.110 --> 04:12.520 align:start >> SO DICKINSON SHOOTS FIRST BY 04:12.520 --> 04:12.100 align:start DESIGN. 04:12.100 --> 04:16.080 align:start THE SMOKE FROM THE GUN AND THE 04:16.080 --> 04:18.520 align:start LOOSENESS OF JACKSON'S OVERCOAT 04:18.520 --> 04:21.160 align:start MADE IT SUCH THAT DICKINSON HAD 04:21.160 --> 04:22.640 align:start TO WATCH JACKSON'S REACTION TO 04:22.640 --> 04:24.100 align:start SEE IF HE HIT HIM. 04:24.100 --> 04:27.880 align:start JACKSON TOOK A HALF STEP BACK, 04:27.880 --> 04:29.110 align:start REGAINS HIS POSITION AND 04:29.110 --> 04:34.280 align:start DICKINSON CRIED OUT, DID I MISS 04:34.280 --> 04:34.760 align:start HIM? 04:34.760 --> 04:36.640 align:start HE'S NOT USED TO MISSING. 04:36.640 --> 04:39.100 align:start JACKSON RAISES HIS PISTOL, 04:39.100 --> 04:41.160 align:start FIRES, IT DOESN'T GO OFF AND 04:41.160 --> 04:45.110 align:start JACKSON IS SO MAD AT DICKINSON 04:45.110 --> 04:48.640 align:start THAT HE MAKES HIM STAND THERE 04:48.640 --> 04:52.100 align:start WHILE HE FIXES HIS GUN AND HE 04:52.100 --> 04:55.040 align:start SHOTGUN AND IT WENT OFF. 04:55.040 --> 04:56.880 align:start >> SOME CLAIM JACKSON'S SHOOTING 04:56.880 --> 04:58.680 align:start TWICE IS A BREECH OF ETIQUETTE. 04:58.680 --> 05:01.920 align:start >> THE RESULT OF THE MISFIRE IS 05:01.920 --> 05:02.120 align:start UPDATE. 05:02.120 --> 05:04.100 align:start AT BEST, TO BE MOST FORGIVEN OF 05:04.100 --> 05:06.680 align:start JACKSON, IT WAS A QUESTIONABLE 05:06.680 --> 05:07.320 align:start MOVE. 05:07.320 --> 05:09.440 align:start >> WHEN JACKSON FIRED, IT WAS 05:09.440 --> 05:11.100 align:start CLEAR DICKINSON WAS MORE TALLY 05:11.100 --> 05:13.200 align:start WOUNDED. 05:13.200 --> 05:15.100 align:start >> THE BULLET WAS CLEAR, WENT IN 05:15.100 --> 05:17.440 align:start ONE SIDE OUT THE OTHER. 05:17.440 --> 05:19.080 align:start KNOT MUCH COULD BE DONE. 05:19.080 --> 05:21.680 align:start HIS SECONDS CARRY HIM TO A 05:21.680 --> 05:24.100 align:start NEARBY CAB BIN WHILE THEY TRIED 05:24.100 --> 05:26.680 align:start TO MAKE HIM COMFORTABLE. 05:26.680 --> 05:29.640 align:start ONE STORY IS HE BLED THROUGH TW 05:29.640 --> 05:31.320 align:start MATTRESSES BEFORE DYING 14 1/2 05:31.320 --> 05:32.880 align:start HOURS AFTER JACKSON SHOT HIM. 05:32.880 --> 05:34.640 align:start >> BUT IT'S WHAT HAPPENED AS 05:34.640 --> 05:36.760 align:start JACKSON HEADED BACK TO NASHVILL 05:36.760 --> 05:37.100 align:start PEOPLE WOULD TALK ABOUT FOR 05:37.100 --> 05:39.280 align:start YEARS TO COME. 05:39.280 --> 05:41.280 align:start JACKSON'S SURGEON NOTICED BLOOD 05:41.280 --> 05:42.880 align:start COMING FROM HIS BOOT. 05:42.880 --> 05:44.040 align:start >> HE SAYS, GENERAL, HAVE YOU 05:44.040 --> 05:44.110 align:start BEEN HIT? 05:44.110 --> 05:47.640 align:start AND JACKSON IN WHAT MIGHT BE TH 05:47.640 --> 05:49.640 align:start UNDERSTATEMENT OF JACKSON'S, YO 05:49.640 --> 05:51.110 align:start KNOW, QUOTABLE CAREER SAYS, OH, 05:51.110 --> 05:54.720 align:start I THINK HE PINKED ME A LITTLE, 05:54.720 --> 05:56.680 align:start THEN FELL OFF HIS HORSE. 05:56.680 --> 05:58.600 align:start >> DICKINSON HAD INDEED BEEN 05:58.600 --> 06:01.080 align:start SUCCESSFUL IN WOUNDING JACKSON. 06:01.080 --> 06:02.200 align:start >> DICKINSON HIT HIM WHERE HE 06:02.200 --> 06:04.280 align:start WANTED TO BUT BECAUSE HE PULLED 06:04.280 --> 06:07.560 align:start HIS JACKET A BIT, THE BULLET 06:07.560 --> 06:10.000 align:start MISSED HIS HEART AN INCH AND AN 06:10.000 --> 06:12.920 align:start A HALF TOWARD THE MIDDLE OF HIS 06:12.920 --> 06:13.080 align:start CHEST. 06:13.080 --> 06:14.680 align:start THE BULLET SHATTERED ON 06:14.680 --> 06:16.800 align:start JACKSON'S STERNUM, COLLAPSED A 06:16.800 --> 06:18.560 align:start LUNG, BROKE A COUPLE OF RIBS. 06:18.560 --> 06:22.320 align:start THE SURGEON DECIDED IT'S MORE 06:22.320 --> 06:24.100 align:start DANGEROUS TO TRY TO GET THE 06:24.100 --> 06:26.800 align:start FRAGMENTS THAN LEAVE IT ALONE. 06:26.800 --> 06:29.110 align:start THEY SEWED HIM UP AND HE LIVED 06:29.110 --> 06:32.680 align:start WITH THE BULLETS FOR THE REST O 06:32.680 --> 06:33.800 align:start HIS LIFE. 06:33.800 --> 06:35.440 align:start >> JACKSON WAS NOT PROSECUTED 06:35.440 --> 06:37.440 align:start FOR MURDER BECAUSE DUELING WAS 06:37.440 --> 06:39.160 align:start LEGAL IN KENTUCKY AND THE DUEL 06:39.160 --> 06:41.880 align:start HAD LITTLE EFFECT ON HIS 06:41.880 --> 06:43.280 align:start SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN FOR THE 06:43.280 --> 06:45.640 align:start PRESIDENCY IN 1829. 06:45.640 --> 06:46.110 align:start >> WHAT FASCINATES ME ABOUT 06:46.110 --> 06:48.110 align:start JACKSON IS HE REPRESENTS THE 06:48.110 --> 06:52.200 align:start BEST AND WORST OF AMERICA IN TH 06:52.200 --> 06:53.600 align:start 19th CENTURY. 06:53.600 --> 06:55.000 align:start GIVEN HE WAS A SLAVE AND 06:55.000 --> 06:56.880 align:start PLANTATION OWNER IS LARGELY 06:56.880 --> 06:59.960 align:start CREDITED WITH SIGNING THE INDIA 06:59.960 --> 07:02.960 align:start REMOVAL ACT OF 1930 INTO LAW. 07:02.960 --> 07:04.100 align:start BUT HE WAS ALSO A SELF-MADE MAN 07:04.100 --> 07:07.320 align:start HE BROUGHT HIMSELF UP THROUGH 07:07.320 --> 07:10.800 align:start RANKS AND WAS ABLE TO ESTABLISH 07:10.800 --> 07:12.920 align:start HIMSELF AS ONE OF THE NATION'S 07:12.920 --> 07:13.600 align:start PRIMARY CITIZENS. 07:13.600 --> 07:16.920 align:start HE WENT FROM FAIRLY WELL-KNOWN 07:16.920 --> 07:18.000 align:start TENNESSEE TO NATIONAL HE ROUGH, 07:18.000 --> 07:19.800 align:start TO AN AMERICAN ROCK STAR WITH 07:19.800 --> 07:22.320 align:start THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS, THAT 07:22.320 --> 07:23.440 align:start JACKSON REPRESENTS, YOU KNOW, 07:23.440 --> 07:25.040 align:start THE SELF-MADE MAN OF AMERICA AN 07:25.040 --> 07:26.800 align:start KIND OF THE ANYTHING IS POSSIBL 07:26.800 --> 07:29.440 align:start IN THIS NEW WORLD, BUT ALSO 07:29.440 --> 07:31.800 align:start LIVED OUT THE PREJUDICES OF THE 07:31.800 --> 07:32.320 align:start DAY. 07:32.320 --> 07:34.320 align:start >> HOWEVER, IN THE END, 07:34.320 --> 07:35.560 align:start DICKINSON MAY HAVE PLAYED A PAR 07:35.560 --> 07:37.080 align:start IN JACKSON'S DEATH. 07:37.080 --> 07:39.800 align:start >> WHEN JACKSON DIED IN 1845, HE 07:39.800 --> 07:41.520 align:start COMPLAINED OF SYMPTOMS THAT LOO 07:41.520 --> 07:44.200 align:start AN AWFUL LOT LIKE LEAD 07:44.200 --> 07:44.800 align:start POISONING. 07:44.800 --> 07:46.920 align:start GIVEN THEY NEVER TOOK THE BULLE 07:46.920 --> 07:49.400 align:start FRAGMENTS OUT OF HIS CHEST, IT' 07:49.400 --> 07:51.600 align:start LOGICAL TO ASSUME THAT LEAD 07:51.600 --> 07:53.000 align:start POISONING DID CONTRIBUTE 07:53.000 --> 07:54.840 align:start SOMEWHAT TO HIS DEATH, IN 07:54.840 --> 07:56.100 align:start ADDITION TO OLD AGE AND HARD 07:56.100 --> 07:57.280 align:start LIVING. 07:57.280 --> 07:59.120 align:start BUT IT'S BEEN SAID THAT CHARLES 07:59.120 --> 08:01.120 align:start DICKINSON DID SHOOT AND KILL 08:01.120 --> 08:02.110 align:start ANDREW JACKSON, IT JUST HAPPENE 08:02.110 --> 08:05.100 align:start TO BE 39 YEARS AFTER ANDREW 08:05.100 --> 08:09.360 align:start JACKSON SHOT AND KILLED CHARLES 08:09.360 --> 08:09.840 align:start DICKINSON. 08:09.840 --> 08:11.240 align:start >> TONIGHT WE'RE LOOKING AT 08:11.240 --> 08:12.120 align:start KENTUCKY'S CONNECTIONS TO THE 08:12.120 --> 08:16.960 align:start HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE LAND. 08:16.960 --> 08:19.960 align:start AT ket.org/"KENTUCKY LIFE," 08:19.960 --> 08:23.320 align:start YOU WILL FIND STORES ABOUT OTHE 08:23.320 --> 08:24.100 align:start KENTUCKIANS PAST AND PRESENT. 08:24.100 --> 08:26.100 align:start AND ON OUR Facebook PAGE, TELL 08:26.100 --> 08:29.920 align:start US WHO YOU THINK IS THE GREATES 08:29.920 --> 08:30.200 align:start KENTUCKIAN. 08:30.200 --> 08:31.100 align:start ZACHARY TAYLOR WAS RAISED, 08:31.100 --> 08:33.440 align:start MARRIED AND BURIED IN KENTUCKY 08:33.440 --> 08:36.280 align:start BUT HIS PRESIDENTIALLE HOME 08:36.280 --> 08:37.080 align:start STATE IS LOUISIANA. 08:37.080 --> 08:39.120 align:start JUST ONE TO HAVE THE 08:39.120 --> 08:40.120 align:start CONTRADICTIONS IN THE LIFE AND 08:40.120 --> 08:42.800 align:start CAREER OF THE 12th U.S. 08:42.800 --> 08:43.040 align:start PRESIDENT. 08:43.040 --> 08:44.080 align:start ZACHARY TAYLOR THE 12th 08:44.080 --> 08:44.880 align:start 12th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 08:44.880 --> 08:46.800 align:start STATES WAS BORN IN VIRGINIA IN 08:46.800 --> 08:48.800 align:start 1784, BUT HIS FAMILY IMMEDIATEL 08:48.800 --> 08:50.640 align:start MOVED THE INFANT JUST OUTSIDE 08:50.640 --> 08:55.360 align:start THE TINY RIVERTOWN OF LOUISVILL 08:55.360 --> 08:56.480 align:start WHERE ZACH RIWOULD SPEND MOST 08:56.480 --> 08:57.360 align:start HIS LIFE. 08:57.360 --> 08:59.040 align:start HIS FATHER BUILT THEIR HOME ON 08:59.040 --> 09:00.760 align:start THE FAMILY PLANTATION, 09:00.760 --> 09:02.640 align:start SPRINGFIELD, OVERLOOKING BROWNS 09:02.640 --> 09:04.000 align:start BROWNSBORO ROAD NEAR THE MODERN 09:04.000 --> 09:07.000 align:start DAY WATERSON EXPRESSWAY. 09:07.000 --> 09:08.960 align:start >> THE HOUSE WAS UNDER 09:08.960 --> 09:10.840 align:start CONSTRUCTION SEVERAL YEARS AND 09:10.840 --> 09:12.480 align:start FINISHED BY 1790. 09:12.480 --> 09:15.400 align:start IT WAS A SIDE HALL COLONIAL. 09:15.400 --> 09:19.600 align:start THIS WAS THE FRONTIER AND ONE O 09:19.600 --> 09:22.360 align:start THE BOOKS I'VE GOT SAID THAT, B 09:22.360 --> 09:28.080 align:start THE DOOR, EVERY NIGHT, THE RIFL 09:28.080 --> 09:29.800 align:start WAS PUT DOWN IN ANTICIPATION 09:29.800 --> 09:32.240 align:start THAT MAYBE THE INDIANS WOULD 09:32.240 --> 09:32.720 align:start ATTACK. 09:32.720 --> 09:35.000 align:start >> SPRINGFIELD WAS A PLANTATION, 09:35.000 --> 09:36.110 align:start EXPOSING TAYLOR TO AN ISSUE THA 09:36.110 --> 09:39.320 align:start WOULD FOLLOW HIM TO HIS 09:39.320 --> 09:40.080 align:start PRESIDENCY. 09:40.080 --> 09:44.080 align:start >> THE TAYLOR FAMILY WERE SLAVE 09:44.080 --> 09:44.480 align:start HOLDERS. 09:44.480 --> 09:47.200 align:start SO TAYLOR GREW UP IN A 09:47.200 --> 09:48.680 align:start SLAVE-HOLDING FAMILY AND 09:48.680 --> 09:48.100 align:start SOCIETY. 09:48.100 --> 09:50.560 align:start KENTUCKY WAS A SLAVE STATE. 09:50.560 --> 09:52.920 align:start >> AFTER SPENDING HIS YOUTH AT 09:52.920 --> 09:54.080 align:start SPRINGFIELD, TAYLOR JOINED THE 09:54.080 --> 09:54.440 align:start ARMY. 09:54.440 --> 10:02.600 align:start ZACHZACH RIPROVED TO BEZACHARY 10:02.600 --> 10:05.000 align:start IN THE SOUTH, IN ONE ENGAGEMENT 10:05.000 --> 10:07.400 align:start HE EARNED THE NAME ROUGH AND 10:07.400 --> 10:09.110 align:start READY WHILE FIGHTING SEMINOLE 10:09.110 --> 10:10.100 align:start INDIANS IN FLORIDA. 10:10.100 --> 10:17.160 align:start HIS STATURE AS A HE HERO GREW I 10:17.160 --> 10:18.760 align:start THE MEXICAN WAR. 10:18.760 --> 10:21.480 align:start >> HE HAD GREAT ODDS AGAINST HIM 10:21.480 --> 10:23.040 align:start AS FAR AS NUMBER OF FORCES AND 10:23.040 --> 10:28.520 align:start HE LED IN ONE BATTLE AFTER 10:28.520 --> 10:31.880 align:start ANOTHER FROM PALO ALTO TO 10:31.880 --> 10:34.520 align:start MONTERREY AND HUGE VICTORY OF 10:34.520 --> 10:37.160 align:start BENO VISTA. 10:37.160 --> 10:39.280 align:start >> BECAUSE HIS TIME IN THE SOUTH 10:39.280 --> 10:41.110 align:start WOULD BE MEASURED IN YEARS, 10:41.110 --> 10:43.100 align:start TAYLOR AND WIFE BOUGHT A HOME I 10:43.100 --> 10:44.240 align:start LOUISIANA. 10:44.240 --> 10:46.520 align:start >> HE LIVES MOST HIS LIFE AT 10:46.520 --> 10:49.720 align:start HOME BASE, WHEN HE'S NOT SERVIN 10:49.720 --> 10:51.200 align:start OFF MILITARY POSTS, IN 10:51.200 --> 10:52.800 align:start LOUISIANA, AND HE HAS A FARM AN 10:52.800 --> 10:54.680 align:start PLANTATION DOWN THERE AND HE 10:54.680 --> 10:56.440 align:start HIMSELF IS A SLAVE HOLDER. 10:56.440 --> 10:59.120 align:start >> BUT ALL THE WHILE, ZACHARY 10:59.120 --> 11:00.680 align:start TAYLOR REMAINED A KENTUCKIAN, 11:00.680 --> 11:01.680 align:start OFTEN RETURNING TO THE HOME 11:01.680 --> 11:03.440 align:start WHERE HIS CHILDREN WERE BORN. 11:03.440 --> 11:04.680 align:start ONE DAUGHTER WOULD MARRY A 11:04.680 --> 11:06.080 align:start FUTURE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 11:06.080 --> 11:08.560 align:start STATES, THE CONFEDERATE UNITED 11:08.560 --> 11:09.200 align:start STATES. 11:09.200 --> 11:11.280 align:start >> SARAH KNOX TAYLOR MARRIED 11:11.280 --> 11:13.680 align:start JEFFERSON DAVIS WHO, OF COURSE, 11:13.680 --> 11:15.520 align:start SERVED UNDER ZACHARY TAYLOR IN 11:15.520 --> 11:18.040 align:start THE BLACKHAWK WAR, WAS ONE OF 11:18.040 --> 11:19.760 align:start HIS OFFICERS. 11:19.760 --> 11:21.040 align:start >> TAYLOR DISAPPROVED OF THE 11:21.040 --> 11:22.520 align:start MARRIAGE, NOT WANTING HIS 11:22.520 --> 11:23.100 align:start DAUGHTER TO LIVE THE TOUGH 11:23.100 --> 11:26.100 align:start MILITARY LIFE HIS MARGARET HAD 11:26.100 --> 11:27.880 align:start ENDURED. 11:27.880 --> 11:29.400 align:start JEFFERSON DAVIS WOULD ACTUALLY 11:29.400 --> 11:31.520 align:start RESIGN HIS COMMISSION TO GAIN 11:31.520 --> 11:33.040 align:start SARAH'S HAND IN MARRIAGE. 11:33.040 --> 11:34.160 align:start SADLY, JUST THREE MONTHS AFTER 11:34.160 --> 11:36.880 align:start THE WEDDING, SARAH DIED OF 11:36.880 --> 11:38.880 align:start MALARIA ON THE WAY TO THE DAVIS 11:38.880 --> 11:40.520 align:start HOME. 11:40.520 --> 11:43.100 align:start >> AFTER SHE DIED, THERE WAS A 11:43.100 --> 11:46.100 align:start POINT WHERE TAYLOR AND JEFFERSO 11:46.100 --> 11:49.160 align:start DAVIS ENDED UP AT THE SAME 11:49.160 --> 11:50.100 align:start PLACE, AND TAYLOR CAME UP AND 11:50.100 --> 11:52.110 align:start PUT HIS ARM AROUND JEFFERSON 11:52.110 --> 11:54.920 align:start DAVIS AND SAID, MY DAUGHTER WAS 11:54.920 --> 11:56.080 align:start A BETTER JUDGE OF CHARACTER THA 11:56.080 --> 11:59.200 align:start I WAS. 11:59.200 --> 12:01.440 align:start >> TAYLOR'S POPULARITY AS A 12:01.440 --> 12:03.120 align:start MILITARY HERO AND HIS HISTORY 12:03.120 --> 12:04.800 align:start WITH SLAVERY DREW THE ATTENTION 12:04.800 --> 12:09.100 align:start OF THE SOUTHERN WIG PARTY. 12:09.100 --> 12:12.100 align:start THEIR AGENDA WAS TO EXTENT 12:12.100 --> 12:14.560 align:start SLAVERY INTO NEW STATES BEING 12:14.560 --> 12:16.640 align:start ADMITTED TO THE UNION AND IN 12:16.640 --> 12:18.440 align:start 1848 CHOSE TAYLOR AS THEIR 12:18.440 --> 12:19.320 align:start PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TO CARRY 12:19.320 --> 12:20.080 align:start THE BANNER. 12:20.080 --> 12:21.110 align:start HIS POPULARITY CARRIED HIM TO 12:21.110 --> 12:22.360 align:start VICTORY. 12:22.360 --> 12:24.320 align:start BUT AS PRESIDENT, TAYLOR LED HI 12:24.320 --> 12:25.100 align:start ADMINISTRATION TO DO JUST THE 12:25.100 --> 12:27.840 align:start OPPOSITE OF HIS PARTY'S WISHES. 12:27.840 --> 12:29.880 align:start >> ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THREW 12:29.880 --> 12:32.520 align:start HIS SOUTHERN SUPPORTERS IS, UPO 12:32.520 --> 12:35.000 align:start HIS ELECTION TO PRESIDENT, HE 12:35.000 --> 12:38.400 align:start ACTUALLY PROPOSES THAT 12:38.400 --> 12:39.520 align:start CALIFORNIA AND NEW MEXICO COME 12:39.520 --> 12:41.280 align:start IN AS FREE STATES AND THIS, OF 12:41.280 --> 12:43.080 align:start COURSE, WAS A SHOCKER TO THEM, 12:43.080 --> 12:44.640 align:start BECAUSE THEY SAID, HERE'S A 12:44.640 --> 12:47.080 align:start SLAVE HOLDER, HERE'S A 12:47.080 --> 12:49.160 align:start SOUTHERNER, HE'LL BACK US. 12:49.160 --> 12:53.360 align:start >> PANAMAANIMOSITY GREW BETWEEN 12:53.360 --> 12:55.000 align:start AND THE SOUTH AND THE COUNTRY 12:55.000 --> 12:56.100 align:start WAS ON THE VERBAL OF WAR. 12:56.100 --> 12:57.920 align:start SOUTH CAROLINA, AS IT WOULD DO 12:57.920 --> 12:59.600 align:start TEN YEARS LATER, THREATENED TO 12:59.600 --> 13:06.520 align:start SUSSECEDE. 13:06.520 --> 13:08.080 align:start >> HE SAID, WE'LL MARCH DOWN 13:08.080 --> 13:09.680 align:start WITH AN ARMY AND STOP YOU 13:09.680 --> 13:11.680 align:start BECAUSE YOU CANNOT SECEDE, THIS 13:11.680 --> 13:12.440 align:start IS THE UNITED STATES. 13:12.440 --> 13:13.100 align:start YOU CAN'T JUST DECIDE YOU'RE 13:13.100 --> 13:15.320 align:start GOING TO LEAVE IT BECAUSE THING 13:15.320 --> 13:17.280 align:start AREN'T GOING YOUR WAY. 13:17.280 --> 13:20.080 align:start >> BUT THIS FIGHT WOULD SUDDENLY 13:20.080 --> 13:22.640 align:start END JULY 4, 1850. 13:22.640 --> 13:25.800 align:start ON A HOT DAY AFTER LAYING THE 13:25.800 --> 13:27.280 align:start CORNERSTONE FOR THE NEW 13:27.280 --> 13:28.680 align:start WASHINGTON MONUMENT, TAYLOR SAT 13:28.680 --> 13:30.320 align:start DOWN TO COOL OFF WITH A 13:30.320 --> 13:31.640 align:start SEEMINGLY INNOCENT BOWL OF 13:31.640 --> 13:34.040 align:start CHERRIES AND A PITCHER OF MILK. 13:34.040 --> 13:35.920 align:start FIVE DAYS LATER, ZACHARY TAILOR 13:35.920 --> 13:36.760 align:start WOULD DIE. 13:36.760 --> 13:41.160 align:start >> HE DIED OF WHAT WAS CALLED 13:41.160 --> 13:44.760 align:start CHOLERA MORBIS WHICH WAS REALLY 13:44.760 --> 13:47.100 align:start A SEVERE ATTACK OF 13:47.100 --> 13:48.360 align:start GASTROENTERITIS. 13:48.360 --> 13:50.600 align:start HE MAY HAVE ACTUALLY RECOVERED, 13:50.600 --> 13:52.100 align:start BUT THE MEDICAL THEORIES AND 13:52.100 --> 13:54.960 align:start PRACTICES OF THE DAY PRETTY MUC 13:54.960 --> 13:56.520 align:start ASSURED HIS DEATH, BECAUSE THEY 13:56.520 --> 13:59.160 align:start BLED HIM, PURGED HIM, BLISTERED 13:59.160 --> 14:00.600 align:start HIM AND OVER THE COURSE OF 14:00.600 --> 14:02.120 align:start SEVERAL DAYS AFTER HE INITIALLY 14:02.120 --> 14:05.200 align:start TOOK SICK, IT SO WEAKENED HIM I 14:05.200 --> 14:06.600 align:start ESSENTIALLY HELPED KILL HIM. 14:06.600 --> 14:08.240 align:start >> HE WAS BURIED IN KENTUCKY IN 14:08.240 --> 14:10.110 align:start THE FAMILY CEMETERY JUST 14:10.110 --> 14:13.880 align:start 300 YARDS FROM HIS HOME OF 14:13.880 --> 14:14.160 align:start SPRINGFIELD. 14:14.160 --> 14:15.920 align:start CONSPIRACY THEORIES AROSE 14:15.920 --> 14:17.680 align:start SUGGESTING HE WAS ACTUALLY 14:17.680 --> 14:20.120 align:start POISONED, MAKING HIM OUR FIRST 14:20.120 --> 14:21.720 align:start ASSASSINATED PRESIDENT. 14:21.720 --> 14:23.680 align:start IN 1991, TAYLOR'S BODY WAS 14:23.680 --> 14:25.920 align:start EXHUMED AND AN AUTOPSY FOR 14:25.920 --> 14:27.120 align:start ARSENIC PERFORMED. 14:27.120 --> 14:29.320 align:start THE TEST PROVED NEGATIVE, AND 14:29.320 --> 14:31.200 align:start TAYLOR WAS LAID BACK TO REST. 14:31.200 --> 14:33.100 align:start AFTER SUCH A SHORT PRESIDENCY, 14:33.100 --> 14:35.110 align:start MOST KENTUCKIANS WOULD FORGET 14:35.110 --> 14:38.200 align:start THAT ZACHARY TAYLOR CONSIDERED 14:38.200 --> 14:39.920 align:start THIS HIS HOME. 14:39.920 --> 14:40.800 align:start >> THIS WAS HOME. 14:40.800 --> 14:41.760 align:start THIS WAS HOME. 14:41.760 --> 14:44.200 align:start KENTUCKY WAS HOME, AS SEEN BY 14:44.200 --> 14:47.400 align:start THE FACT THAT THIS IS WHERE HE' 14:47.400 --> 14:47.800 align:start BURIED. 14:47.800 --> 14:50.600 align:start THERE WAS AN ARTICLE IN THE 14:50.600 --> 14:51.760 align:start LOCAL PAPER YEARS AGO THAT WAS 14:51.760 --> 14:54.120 align:start TALKING ABOUT THE THINGS THAT 14:54.120 --> 14:56.120 align:start LOUISVILLE ISN'T, AND THEY SAID 14:56.120 --> 14:57.960 align:start FOR INSTANCE, LOUISVILLE IS NOT 14:57.960 --> 15:00.160 align:start THE HOME OF A PRESIDENT. 15:00.160 --> 15:03.320 align:start WELL, YES, IT IS. 15:03.320 --> 15:05.640 align:start >> SHORTLY AFTER WORLD WAR I, 15:05.640 --> 15:06.720 align:start THE UNITED STATES ACQUIRED THE 15:06.720 --> 15:09.240 align:start LAND AROUND HIS GRAVE, CREATING 15:09.240 --> 15:13.720 align:start THE ZACHARY TAYLOR NATIONAL 15:13.720 --> 15:13.110 align:start CEMETERY. 15:13.110 --> 15:15.960 align:start IT IS HOME TO VETERANS FROM 15:15.960 --> 15:17.100 align:start EVERY AMERICAN WAR, INCLUDING 15:17.100 --> 15:19.360 align:start TAYLOR'S FATHER, WHO SERVED IN 15:19.360 --> 15:21.240 align:start THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, AND IT I 15:21.240 --> 15:23.800 align:start STILL HOME TO THE ONLY UNITED 15:23.800 --> 15:27.320 align:start STATES PRESIDENT BURIED IN 15:27.320 --> 15:28.360 align:start KENTUCKY. 15:28.360 --> 15:29.100 align:start >> TAYLOR NEVER VOTED IN A 15:29.100 --> 15:31.110 align:start PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION BEFORE HI 15:31.110 --> 15:32.280 align:start OWN. 15:32.280 --> 15:33.800 align:start AS A CAREER MILITARY MAN, HE 15:33.800 --> 15:35.440 align:start SAID HE DIDN'T WANT TO VOTE 15:35.440 --> 15:38.920 align:start AGAINST A POTENTIAL 15:38.920 --> 15:39.560 align:start COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. 15:39.560 --> 15:41.440 align:start OUR AWARD WINNING KET 15:41.440 --> 15:43.920 align:start DOCUMENTARY "LINCOLN, I, TOO, A 15:43.920 --> 15:47.280 align:start A KENTUCKIAN," EXAMINED HOW 15:47.280 --> 15:49.800 align:start LINCOLN'S TIES TO KENTUCKY 15:49.800 --> 15:50.110 align:start INFLUENCED HIS POLITICAL LIFE 15:50.110 --> 15:52.100 align:start AND DECISIONS. 15:52.100 --> 15:55.520 align:start LINCOLN'S LEGACY DEFIANCE 15:55.520 --> 16:01.840 align:start AMERICA. 16:01.840 --> 16:05.000 align:start HODGENVILLE IS TONIGHT'S OUR 16:05.000 --> 16:05.480 align:start TOWN. 16:05.480 --> 16:07.120 align:start >> ABE LINCOLN WAS ACTUALLY BORN 16:07.120 --> 16:08.720 align:start HERE, NOT IN NORTH CAROLINA OR 16:08.720 --> 16:10.160 align:start ILLINOIS OR ANY OTHER PLACE YOU 16:10.160 --> 16:12.000 align:start MIGHT COME TO THINK OF, BUT 16:12.000 --> 16:14.960 align:start ACTUALLY BORN HERE IN 16:14.960 --> 16:15.440 align:start HODGENVILLE, KENTUCKY. 16:15.440 --> 16:17.120 align:start WE HAVE ANYWHERE FROM A QUARTER 16:17.120 --> 16:20.100 align:start MILLION TO TO HALF A MILLION 16:20.100 --> 16:22.960 align:start VISITORS A YEAR. 16:22.960 --> 16:24.480 align:start LINCOLN IS ONE OF THE MOST 16:24.480 --> 16:26.160 align:start POPULAR BUSINESS NAMES ANYWHERE 16:26.160 --> 16:27.600 align:start IN THE UNITED STATES BECAUSE IT 16:27.600 --> 16:32.960 align:start IMPLIES HONESTY, INTEGRITY, 16:32.960 --> 16:33.800 align:start FORTHRIGHTNESS, ET CETERA. 16:33.800 --> 16:35.360 align:start HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY, WE HAVE 16:35.360 --> 16:38.110 align:start ABOUT 42 BUSINESSES AND 16:38.110 --> 16:39.760 align:start ORGANIZATIONS IN THE AREA THAT 16:39.760 --> 16:44.080 align:start CARRIED THE LINCOLN NAME. 16:44.080 --> 16:46.800 align:start WE ALSO MAKE USE OF HIS NAME AN 16:46.800 --> 16:47.100 align:start HIS REPUTATION. 16:47.100 --> 16:50.160 align:start HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY, WE TRY T 16:50.160 --> 16:53.040 align:start HAVE A LITTLE FUN, NOT ALL 16:53.040 --> 16:56.440 align:start SERIOUSNESS WITH MR. LINCOLN, 16:56.440 --> 16:58.520 align:start AND EVENT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR 16:58.520 --> 17:00.640 align:start THAT DO PROMOTE THE HISTORY AND 17:00.640 --> 17:01.110 align:start THE HERITAGE AND, YET, AT THE 17:01.110 --> 17:03.600 align:start SAME TIME, OFFER THE LOCAL FOLK 17:03.600 --> 17:05.520 align:start AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A LITTLE 17:05.520 --> 17:07.640 align:start FUN. 17:07.640 --> 17:09.640 align:start ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING 17:09.640 --> 17:11.960 align:start THINGS ABOUT HODGENVILLE IS THE 17:11.960 --> 17:14.040 align:start SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE 17:14.040 --> 17:15.100 align:start HERE, PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE CARE 17:15.100 --> 17:18.100 align:start VERY MUCH ABOUT THEIR NEIGHBOR, 17:18.100 --> 17:20.400 align:start THEY'RE VERY INVOLVED IN WHAT'S 17:20.400 --> 17:22.840 align:start GOING ON IN THE COMMUNITY. 17:22.840 --> 17:26.120 align:start TAKE A GREAT PRIDE IN THEIR 17:26.120 --> 17:26.560 align:start COMMUNITY. 17:26.560 --> 17:28.040 align:start I THINK THAT SENSE OF PRIDE AND 17:28.040 --> 17:31.560 align:start COMMUNITY IS SOMETHING THAT 17:31.560 --> 17:33.480 align:start MR. LINCOLN WOULD TRULY 17:33.480 --> 17:33.100 align:start APPRECIATE. 17:33.100 --> 17:34.100 align:start >> WELL, IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO 17:34.100 --> 17:36.100 align:start RETURN HOME AND IT'S BEEN STATE 17:36.100 --> 17:38.600 align:start YOU CAN NEVER GO HOME, BUT I 17:38.600 --> 17:39.100 align:start BELIEVE YOU CAN. 17:39.100 --> 17:42.800 align:start I COME BACK HERE TO HODGENVILLE 17:42.800 --> 17:44.600 align:start AND I'M IMPRESSED WITH THIS 17:44.600 --> 17:48.240 align:start MONUMENT OUT FRONT HERE, THIS 17:48.240 --> 17:50.760 align:start PRESIDENT OF LOOK AT OVER IT, 17:50.760 --> 17:54.600 align:start LOOKING AT THE LINCOLN BANK, 17:54.600 --> 17:57.120 align:start ESPECIALLY, AND THE BIRTH PLACE 17:57.120 --> 18:00.280 align:start AT HODGENVILLE AND ALL THESE 18:00.280 --> 18:02.320 align:start BUSINESSES NAMES WITH LINCOLN I 18:02.320 --> 18:02.110 align:start REALLY IMPRESSIVE. 18:02.110 --> 18:04.840 align:start WHEN WE COME HERE, MY WIFE 18:04.840 --> 18:06.480 align:start USUALLY COMES WITH ME AND ONE O 18:06.480 --> 18:09.640 align:start THE FIRST PLACE WES COME TO IS 18:09.640 --> 18:12.120 align:start ALWAYS THE MUSEUM AND LIKE TO G 18:12.120 --> 18:14.440 align:start TO PAULA'S HOT BISCUIT, IT'S A 18:14.440 --> 18:16.120 align:start VERY GOOD PLACE TO EAT. 18:16.120 --> 18:22.240 align:start GO THERE AND EAT, AND ACROSS TH 18:22.240 --> 18:24.480 align:start SQUARE, THE HALL'S PLACE, THEY 18:24.480 --> 18:25.760 align:start HAVE GOOD FOOD AS WELL. 18:25.760 --> 18:28.480 align:start I TRY TO EAT AS MUCH FOOD AS I 18:28.480 --> 18:29.640 align:start CAN WHEN WE COME HERE. 18:29.640 --> 18:33.360 align:start WE HAVE SO MANY GOOD FRIENDS. 18:33.360 --> 18:34.840 align:start WE CAME FOR THE DEDICATION OF 18:34.840 --> 18:36.480 align:start THE MUSEUM. 18:36.480 --> 18:42.100 align:start SEVERAL LINCOLN LOOK-ALIKES COM 18:42.100 --> 18:44.720 align:start TO HELP DEDICATE THE MUSEUM. 18:44.720 --> 18:46.640 align:start IT SEEMS THAT THE YEARS HAVE 18:46.640 --> 18:47.360 align:start FLOWN BY. 18:47.360 --> 18:49.600 align:start BUT EACH TIME WE COME TO 18:49.600 --> 18:50.100 align:start HODGENVILLE, WE MAKE NEW 18:50.100 --> 18:51.240 align:start FRIENDS. 18:51.240 --> 18:53.160 align:start VERY GOOD PEOPLE HERE IN 18:53.160 --> 18:53.920 align:start HODGENVILLE. 18:53.920 --> 18:59.760 align:start >> HODGENVILLE IS A GOOD PLACE 18:59.760 --> 19:02.360 align:start TO BEGIN YOUR TRIP TO THE MORE 19:02.360 --> 19:05.160 align:start THAN 20 SITES ALONG KENTUCKY'S 19:05.160 --> 19:05.110 align:start LINCOLN HERITAGE TRAIL. 19:05.110 --> 19:08.040 align:start SO WHO WAS THE KENTUCKY-BORN 19:08.040 --> 19:09.280 align:start STATESMAN WHO WENT ON TO BECOME 19:09.280 --> 19:10.100 align:start A PRESIDENT AND LEAD HIS 19:10.100 --> 19:12.040 align:start COUNTRYMEN IN THE CIVIL WAR? 19:12.040 --> 19:15.640 align:start WELL, IF YOU ANSWERED LINCOLN, 19:15.640 --> 19:16.100 align:start YOU WOULD BE HALF RIGHT. 19:16.100 --> 19:18.400 align:start THE NATION'S OTHER CIVIL WAR 19:18.400 --> 19:20.280 align:start PRESIDENT WAS BORN EIGHT MONTHS 19:20.280 --> 19:22.800 align:start EARLIER THAN LINCOLN AND JUST 19:22.800 --> 19:27.280 align:start 100 MILES AWAY. 19:27.280 --> 19:29.160 align:start SITUATED IN THE ROLLING 19:29.160 --> 19:30.520 align:start COUNTRYSIDE OF TODD COUNTY 19:30.520 --> 19:33.600 align:start STANDS THE 351-FOOT OBELISK 19:33.600 --> 19:35.880 align:start MEMORIAL TO KENTUCKY-BORN 19:35.880 --> 19:37.600 align:start JEFFERSON DAVIS, AN INDELIBLE 19:37.600 --> 19:39.360 align:start REMINDER OF THE LARGER THAN 19:39.360 --> 19:41.840 align:start LIFE, CONTROVERSIAL, FIRST AND 19:41.840 --> 19:44.240 align:start ONLY PRESIDENT OF THE 19:44.240 --> 19:45.120 align:start CONFEDERACY. 19:45.120 --> 19:47.480 align:start IT'S HARD TO TELL THE STORY OF 19:47.480 --> 19:48.960 align:start DAVIS WITHOUT INCLUDING 19:48.960 --> 19:51.480 align:start COMPARISONS TO HIS FELLOW 19:51.480 --> 19:52.720 align:start KENTUCKIAN ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 19:52.720 --> 19:54.600 align:start >> HERE'S LINCOLN AND DAVIS BOTH 19:54.600 --> 19:56.960 align:start BORN IN A LOG CAB BIN, BORN 19:56.960 --> 19:58.720 align:start WITHIN EIGHT MONTHS, 80 MILES O 19:58.720 --> 19:59.100 align:start EACH OTHER. 19:59.100 --> 20:01.000 align:start NOT TOO FAR SEPARATED IN 20:01.000 --> 20:02.120 align:start BACKGROUND AND FAMILIES. 20:02.120 --> 20:04.120 align:start ONE GOES NORTH, ONE SOUTH. 20:04.120 --> 20:06.800 align:start OVER THE COURSE OF HISTORY, TWO 20:06.800 --> 20:07.720 align:start REVERSE DIRECTIONS. 20:07.720 --> 20:09.080 align:start HOW MUCH IS A PERSON A PRODUCT 20:09.080 --> 20:14.080 align:start OF ENVIRONMENT AND HEARTEDTY. 20:14.080 --> 20:14.760 align:start HEARTED -- 20:14.760 --> 20:15.120 align:start HEREDITY. 20:15.120 --> 20:17.080 align:start BUT THEY GO NORTH AND SOUTH AND 20:17.080 --> 20:18.920 align:start BECOME THE LEADERS OF TWO 20:18.920 --> 20:20.680 align:start CAUSES, ONE WHO WANTS A UNITED 20:20.680 --> 20:22.080 align:start NATION, ONE A NEW NATION. 20:22.080 --> 20:23.800 align:start THEY COME OUT OF SAME 20:23.800 --> 20:25.110 align:start BACKGROUNDS AND ORIGINS BUT 20:25.110 --> 20:28.680 align:start EMERGE VERY DIFFERENT MEN AS A 20:28.680 --> 20:29.200 align:start RESULT. 20:29.200 --> 20:30.920 align:start >> ALTHOUGH DAVIS' FAMILY MOVES 20:30.920 --> 20:32.100 align:start SOUTH WHEN HE WAS TWO YEARS OLD 20:32.100 --> 20:34.440 align:start KENTUCKY WOULD PLAY A PROMINENT 20:34.440 --> 20:39.920 align:start ROLE IN DAVIS' EARLY EDUCATION. 20:39.920 --> 20:41.920 align:start >> DAVIS AT FIRST GLANCE HAS FEW 20:41.920 --> 20:44.280 align:start TIES TO KENTUCKY, LEAVES HERE A 20:44.280 --> 20:46.100 align:start A BOY AT TWO YEARS OLD, SO 20:46.100 --> 20:49.880 align:start WASN'T INCLUNESSED BY KENTUCKY 20:49.880 --> 20:51.720 align:start THAN LINCOLN IN ONE SENSE, BUT 20:51.720 --> 20:53.680 align:start MORE IN ANOTHER IN THAT HE COME 20:53.680 --> 20:55.720 align:start TO KENTUCKY FOR HIS SCHOOLING. 20:55.720 --> 20:57.000 align:start KENTUCKY WAS KNOWN AS THE 20:57.000 --> 20:57.960 align:start EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF THE SOUTH 20:57.960 --> 20:59.100 align:start AT THE TIME. 20:59.100 --> 21:02.720 align:start >> JEFFERSON DAVIS' FATHER, 21:02.720 --> 21:04.720 align:start SAMUEL DAVIS, SOMEHOW RECOGNIZE 21:04.720 --> 21:08.080 align:start HE HAD A VERY INTELLIGENT SON A 21:08.080 --> 21:09.960 align:start HIS TENTH SON, AND HE WAS NOT 21:09.960 --> 21:12.560 align:start SATISFIED WITH THE SCHOOLING IN 21:12.560 --> 21:13.920 align:start WOODVILLE, MISSISSIPPI, AND, 21:13.920 --> 21:15.840 align:start THEREFOR, HE SENT HIM TO 21:15.840 --> 21:17.240 align:start BOARDING SCHOOL, WHICH IS 21:17.240 --> 21:20.440 align:start UNUSUAL IN AMERICA, YOU UP IN 21:20.440 --> 21:22.110 align:start KENTUCKY, TO SPRINGFIELD, TO 21:22.110 --> 21:23.960 align:start ST. THOMAS ACADEMY. 21:23.960 --> 21:24.800 align:start >> HE STARTS OUT WITH THE 21:24.800 --> 21:25.110 align:start EDUCATION IN KENTUCKY, COMES 21:25.110 --> 21:28.080 align:start BACK TO KENTUCKY FOR HIS COLLEG 21:28.080 --> 21:29.100 align:start SCHOOL AT TRANSYLVANIA, ONE OF 21:29.100 --> 21:31.440 align:start THE BEST SCHOOLS IN THE SOUTH A 21:31.440 --> 21:32.880 align:start THAT TIME. 21:32.880 --> 21:33.110 align:start >> FOLLOWING TRANSYLVANIA, DAVIS 21:33.110 --> 21:36.100 align:start WENT ON TO WEST POINT AND THEN 21:36.100 --> 21:37.600 align:start SERVICE IN THE ARMY. 21:37.600 --> 21:38.110 align:start IT WAS THERE THAT HE MET AND 21:38.110 --> 21:41.800 align:start FELL IN LOVE WITH SARAH KNOX 21:41.800 --> 21:43.480 align:start TAYLOR, THE KENTUCKY-BORN 21:43.480 --> 21:45.110 align:start DAUGHTER OF HIS COMMANDER AND 21:45.110 --> 21:49.920 align:start FUTURE PRESIDENT ZACHARY TAYLOR 21:49.920 --> 21:51.880 align:start TRAGICALLY, ILLNESS STRUCK THE 21:51.880 --> 21:53.760 align:start COUPLE THREE MONTHS AFTER THEY 21:53.760 --> 21:54.040 align:start MARRIED. 21:54.040 --> 21:55.100 align:start >> THEY'RE VISITING RELATIVES 21:55.100 --> 21:57.110 align:start DOWN IN THE DEPTHS OF THE SALTY 21:57.110 --> 22:00.600 align:start SOUTH IN LOUISIANA, AND THEY 22:00.600 --> 22:02.360 align:start BOTH CONTRACT EITHER YELLOW 22:02.360 --> 22:04.960 align:start FEVER OR MALARIA, SOME QUESTION 22:04.960 --> 22:08.200 align:start OF WHICH ONE IT WAS, IT WAS A 22:08.200 --> 22:10.360 align:start SERIOUS DISEASE. 22:10.360 --> 22:13.000 align:start HE'S ON HIS SICK BED AND HEARD 22:13.000 --> 22:15.360 align:start HIS WIFE SINGING THEIR FAVORITE 22:15.360 --> 22:15.720 align:start SONG. 22:15.720 --> 22:19.000 align:start GOES TO HER, THINKING SHE'S 22:19.000 --> 22:20.100 align:start RECOVEREDDISH AND SHE DIES IN 22:20.100 --> 22:21.600 align:start HIS ARMS. 22:21.600 --> 22:22.800 align:start DAVIS IS NEVER THE SAME MAN 22:22.800 --> 22:23.360 align:start AFTER THAT. 22:23.360 --> 22:25.320 align:start DAVIS AFTER THAT GOES INTO 22:25.320 --> 22:27.840 align:start SECLUSION, LIVES ON HIS 22:27.840 --> 22:28.100 align:start PLANTATION, READING BOOKS, 22:28.100 --> 22:30.720 align:start SURROUNDED BY HIS SLAVES, SEEIN 22:30.720 --> 22:33.100 align:start ALMOST NO ONE FOR YEARS AND 22:33.100 --> 22:34.200 align:start YEARS. 22:34.200 --> 22:36.560 align:start >> DATE WENT ON TO FIGHT IN THE 22:36.560 --> 22:37.720 align:start MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR AND ROSE T 22:37.720 --> 22:39.920 align:start BECOME ONE OF THE SOUTH'S 22:39.920 --> 22:40.760 align:start POLITICAL LEADERS. 22:40.760 --> 22:42.680 align:start >> DAVIS WAS REALLY 22:42.680 --> 22:43.440 align:start WELL-PREPARED TO BE A PRESIDENT 22:43.440 --> 22:45.240 align:start OF THE CONFEDERACY. 22:45.240 --> 22:48.320 align:start HE WAS A COSMOPOLITAN MAN. 22:48.320 --> 22:49.920 align:start HE HAD BEEN A SECRETARY OF WAR. 22:49.920 --> 22:50.100 align:start HE HAD BEEN A SENATOR. 22:50.100 --> 22:52.110 align:start ONE OF THE BEST EDUCATED MEN IN 22:52.110 --> 22:54.400 align:start THE SOUTH. 22:54.400 --> 22:55.640 align:start >> THE BURDEN OF RESPONSIBILITY 22:55.640 --> 22:57.100 align:start FOR SECESSION ADDED TO THE 22:57.100 --> 22:59.640 align:start STRAIN OF DAVIS' NUMEROUS 22:59.640 --> 23:02.080 align:start PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL AILMENTS 23:02.080 --> 23:03.720 align:start PAINT AGO PORTRAIT OF A MAN 23:03.720 --> 23:04.880 align:start OFTEN IN PAIN. 23:04.880 --> 23:06.240 align:start >> DAVIS IS WOUNDED IN THE 23:06.240 --> 23:07.100 align:start MEXICAN WAR, SHOT IN THE FOOT 23:07.100 --> 23:10.120 align:start AND WAS ON CRUTCHES FOR TWO 23:10.120 --> 23:10.480 align:start YEARS. 23:10.480 --> 23:13.000 align:start HE HAD LOST THE VISION IN ONE 23:13.000 --> 23:14.040 align:start EYE, PROBABLY BLIND BY THE END 23:14.040 --> 23:15.600 align:start OF THE CIVIL WAR. 23:15.600 --> 23:18.840 align:start DAVIS ALSO HAD PAIN FROM NERVE 23:18.840 --> 23:21.800 align:start DAMAGE, NEURALGIA THEY CALLED I 23:21.800 --> 23:22.120 align:start AT THE TIME. 23:22.120 --> 23:24.960 align:start THIS IS A MAN IN CONSTANT PAIN, 23:24.960 --> 23:26.360 align:start PROBABLY HAD INSOMNIA. 23:26.360 --> 23:28.480 align:start FOUR OF HIS SIX CHILDREN DIED 23:28.480 --> 23:30.360 align:start BEFORE DAVIS AND ALL HIS SONS 23:30.360 --> 23:33.100 align:start DIED BEFORE DAVIS. 23:33.100 --> 23:34.680 align:start SO HE'S A MAN OF STRONG WILL, 23:34.680 --> 23:35.110 align:start HAS TO OVERCOME HIS PHYSICAL 23:35.110 --> 23:36.400 align:start AILMENTS. 23:36.400 --> 23:39.800 align:start THEY HAD TO WEAR AND TEAR ON HI 23:39.800 --> 23:42.560 align:start EMOTIONS, HIS PHYSIQUE AND 23:42.560 --> 23:42.960 align:start STATURE. 23:42.960 --> 23:43.920 align:start >> PRESIDENT DAVIS CERTAINLY 23:43.920 --> 23:45.800 align:start SUFFERED AS MUCH AS ANY OTHER 23:45.800 --> 23:47.110 align:start AMERICAN POLITICAL LEADER EVER 23:47.110 --> 23:48.280 align:start HAS. 23:48.280 --> 23:50.520 align:start WHEN THE NOTE CAME THAT HE HAD 23:50.520 --> 23:53.040 align:start BEEN ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE 23:53.040 --> 23:54.100 align:start CONFEDERACY, HIS WIFE WAS 23:54.100 --> 23:57.280 align:start STANDING WITH HIM IN THE ROSE 23:57.280 --> 23:59.640 align:start GARDEN AND SAID HIS FACIAL 23:59.640 --> 24:00.840 align:start EXPRESSION LOOKED LIKE HE WAS 24:00.840 --> 24:02.110 align:start READING A DEATH NOTICE. 24:02.110 --> 24:03.680 align:start THEN HE TOLD HER. 24:03.680 --> 24:05.880 align:start TO HIM, THIS RESPONSIBILITY FEL 24:05.880 --> 24:08.280 align:start ON HIM, AND IT WAS A GREAT AND 24:08.280 --> 24:09.600 align:start GRAVE RESPONSIBILITY. 24:09.600 --> 24:12.600 align:start >> WHILE THE HISTORY BOOKS 24:12.600 --> 24:14.840 align:start EVENTUALLY PRAISED ABRAHAM 24:14.840 --> 24:16.840 align:start LINCOLN'S ROLE IN PRESERVING TH 24:16.840 --> 24:19.800 align:start COUNTRY, JEFFERSON DAVIS' LEGAC 24:19.800 --> 24:21.920 align:start IS CLOUDED IN CONTROVERSY. 24:21.920 --> 24:22.720 align:start >> HE WAS A MAN WHO SOON WENT 24:22.720 --> 24:24.680 align:start INTO ECLIPSE. 24:24.680 --> 24:25.280 align:start HE WAS POPULAR IN THE SOUTH. 24:25.280 --> 24:27.240 align:start YOU CAN'T SAY THAT, BUT MANY 24:27.240 --> 24:28.960 align:start PLACES CELEBRATED LEE'S 24:28.960 --> 24:30.840 align:start BIRTHDAY, NOT DAVIS' BIRTHDAY. 24:30.840 --> 24:32.100 align:start YES, HE'S HONORED BUT NOT LOVED 24:32.100 --> 24:35.040 align:start AND HE NEVER WAS REALLY LOVED. 24:35.040 --> 24:37.100 align:start HE WAS REVERED BY SOME BUT NEVE 24:37.100 --> 24:40.480 align:start THE MAN PEOPLE COULD EMBRACE AN 24:40.480 --> 24:41.720 align:start SAY THIS IS OUR PRESIDENT AND 24:41.720 --> 24:43.110 align:start THE MAN THAT LEFT US IN THE WAR 24:43.110 --> 24:47.480 align:start >> OVER TIME, WHAT DAVIS STOOD 24:47.480 --> 24:49.440 align:start FOR BECAME MUCH MORE UNSUPPABLE 24:49.440 --> 24:52.400 align:start A MAN WHO STOOD FOR SLAVERY. 24:52.400 --> 24:55.110 align:start BY THE TIME OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS 24:55.110 --> 24:58.400 align:start MOVEMENT, THAT STAND SEEMED SO 24:58.400 --> 25:00.040 align:start OUTDATED AND BECAME A POINT OF 25:00.040 --> 25:03.040 align:start CONTINUE ADVISORY. 25:03.040 --> 25:05.400 align:start >> JEFFERSON'S DAVIS' LEGACY 25:05.400 --> 25:09.480 align:start CHANGED FROM THE CIVIL WAR. 25:09.480 --> 25:11.100 align:start IN HIS SPEECHES, HE EMPHASIZED 25:11.100 --> 25:13.200 align:start THE VALUE OF THE UNION. 25:13.200 --> 25:14.100 align:start HE WOULD POINT OUT STATES RIGHT 25:14.100 --> 25:16.280 align:start RELATES TO THE UNION AND HE 25:16.280 --> 25:17.100 align:start WANTED TO PRESERVE THE UNION. 25:17.100 --> 25:19.880 align:start HE SAID THE SADDEST DAY OF HIS 25:19.880 --> 25:21.400 align:start LIFE WAS WHEN HE RESIGNED FROM 25:21.400 --> 25:22.760 align:start THE SENATE TO GO SOUTH AND THEN 25:22.760 --> 25:25.760 align:start TO LATER BE ELECTED CONFEDERATE 25:25.760 --> 25:26.120 align:start PRESIDENT. 25:26.120 --> 25:27.110 align:start SADDEST DAY OF HIS LIFE, TO 25:27.110 --> 25:31.100 align:start RESIGN FROM THE UNION, ACTUALLY 25:31.100 --> 25:34.480 align:start >> SHORTLY BEFORE HIS DEATH, 25:34.480 --> 25:36.480 align:start DAVIS MADE ONE LAST JOURNEY TO 25:36.480 --> 25:38.360 align:start KENTUCKY TO COMMEMORATE THE 25:38.360 --> 25:39.100 align:start DEDICATION OF A CHURCH ON THE 25:39.100 --> 25:41.100 align:start LOCATION OF HIS BIRTH PLACE. 25:41.100 --> 25:44.240 align:start >> HE SAID, IT IS WITH A HEART 25:44.240 --> 25:45.960 align:start FULL OF EMOTION THAT I THANK YO 25:45.960 --> 25:49.480 align:start FOR COMMEMORATING THE SPOT OF M 25:49.480 --> 25:49.920 align:start NATIVITY. 25:49.920 --> 25:53.080 align:start I FEEL LIKE, TODAY, LIKE THE 25:53.080 --> 25:55.200 align:start POEM THAT SIR WALTER SCOTT 25:55.200 --> 25:57.680 align:start WROTE, "THIS IS MY OWN, MY 25:57.680 --> 25:58.100 align:start NATIVE LAND." 25:58.100 --> 26:00.100 align:start AND THEN THE LAST THING HE SAID 26:00.100 --> 26:04.240 align:start WAS, GOD BLESS KENTUCKY AND 26:04.240 --> 26:09.160 align:start BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH. 26:09.160 --> 26:10.100 align:start >> FOUR U.S. VICE PRESIDENTS 26:10.100 --> 26:12.640 align:start WERE ALSO BORN IN KENTUCKY. 26:12.640 --> 26:14.100 align:start JOHN BRECKING RIDGE WAS JAMES 26:14.100 --> 26:16.080 align:start BUCHANAN'S VICE PRESIDENT. 26:16.080 --> 26:20.040 align:start RICHARD JOHNSON SERVED WITH 26:20.040 --> 26:22.040 align:start VAN BUREN. 26:22.040 --> 26:24.100 align:start ADELI STEVENS WITH GROVER 26:24.100 --> 26:26.400 align:start CLEVELAND AND BARKLEY WITH 26:26.400 --> 26:26.880 align:start TRUMAN. 26:26.880 --> 26:27.110 align:start AND WE'RE SECOND ONLY TO 26:27.110 --> 26:30.160 align:start NEW YORK IN THE NUMBER OF 26:30.160 --> 26:31.040 align:start VICE PRESIDENTS BORN IN OUR 26:31.040 --> 26:32.400 align:start STATE AND, OF COURSE, SECOND TO 26:32.400 --> 26:35.760 align:start NONE AS THE BIRTHPLACE OF 26:35.760 --> 26:36.110 align:start LINCOLN, OUR GREATEST PRESIDENT 26:36.110 --> 26:38.040 align:start THANKS FOR WATCHING AND WE'LL 26:38.040 --> 26:44.880 align:start SEE YOU NEXT TIME RIGHT LEER HE 26:41.840 --> 27:29.110 align:start "KENTUCKY LIFE."