The Ides of April
The Ides of April is a historical podcast hosted by Alec Baldwin that examines the seventeen pivotal days surrounding the end of the Civil War, the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and the largest manhunt in U.S. history. Through dramatic narration, expert insight, and archival detail, it traces the web of conspiracy, ambition, and vengeance that led to Lincoln's death. The series also explores how those events helped shape the birth of modern America. New episodes are released weekly.
Episodes
The Handshake Line: The Assassination of William McKinley, Part Two - The Strenuous Life
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The Handshake Line: The Assassination of William McKinley
Episode Two: The Strenuous Life
Two shots.
Eight days.
A century set in motion.
Episode Two begins in the immediate aftermath of the assassination attempt—inside the Temple of Music as chaos erupts, and follows the slow, agonizing decline of a president who, for a moment, seemed like he might survive.
He didn’t.
The Handshake Line: The Assassination of William McKinley - Part One
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The Handshake Line: The Assassination of William McKinley
Episode One: The Last Gentleman
On September 6th, 1901, at the height of the Pan-American Exposition, President William McKinley stood in a public receiving line, greeting ordinary citizens one handshake at a time.
It was a gesture he believed in.
It was also the moment that would end his life.
In Episode One, we
Introducing: THE SLIPPERY
THE SLIPPERY
The con artists think they're untouchable. The fraudsters believe their schemes are foolproof. The scammers assume they'll never be caught. They're all dead wrong.
Welcome to The Slippery, where the most audacious scammers, mind-bending scandals, and elaborate schemes meet their match. Hosted by Nancy Moscatiello and Scott Eldridge—the investigative duo behind the explosive hit "Sca
The Last Walk: The Assassination of Olof Palme - Part Two
Episode 2: Sveavägen
February 28th, 1986. 11:21 PM.
Two shots. A Prime Minister down. A killer who vanishes into the night.
Episode Two takes you inside one of the most exhaustive — and deeply flawed — investigations in modern history. From the chaotic crime scene to decades of dead ends, false confessions, and abandoned theories, the search for Palme’s killer becomes something larger than a ca
The Last Walk: The Assassination of Olof Palme - Part One
🎧 The Ides of April — The Last Walk
Episode 1: The Most Dangerous Social Democrat in the World
On a cold February night in 1986, Olof Palme walked home from the cinema without security — a decision rooted in principle… and one that would cost him his life.
In Episode One, we trace the life of a man who became one of the most dangerous voices in global politics. Born into privilege, shaped by hi
The Devil's Ledger - Week of April 6th
🎧 The Devil’s Ledger
Week of April 6
🌌 Episode Overview
This week, we look up.
Way up.
As the crew of Artemis II orbits the Moon, humanity once again pushes beyond the edge of the known world—into a place defined not just by distance, but by silence.
And in that silence…
We begin to ask different questions.
👁️ The Creepiest Thing I Heard This Week
A chilling account from the early d
The Parade: The Assassination of Anwar Sadat - Part Two
🔫 Episode Two: The Parade
The moment arrives.
Not in secret.
Not in shadow.
But in broad daylight.
A military parade.
A national celebration.
A perfectly executed illusion of control.
💥 In This Episode:
The assassination of Anwar Sadat—minute by minute
The role of Khaled Islambouli and the military cell behind the attack
The ideological foundation of the conspiracy, including the doctrin
The Parade: The Assassination of Anwar Sadat - Part One
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The Parade: The Assassination of Anwar Sadat
🏛️ Episode One: The Hero’s Welcome
Cairo. October 6th, 1981.
A perfect morning.
A nation celebrating victory.
A president at the height of his power.
And a moment—just seconds long—that will change everything.
Anwar Sadat stands before a cheering crowd, marking the anniversary of the October War—the defining triumph of his pr
The Last Handshake: The Parking Lot
🎧 The Ides of AprilThe Last Handshake: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Episode Two: The Parking Lot
There is a man in a parking lot.
He stands in the one place he should never be—steps from the Prime Minister. No one stops him. No one questions him. And in less than a minute, history fractures.
In this episode, we move inside the final forty minutes of Yitzhak Rabin’s life—beginning with a
The Last Handshake: A Man of War Learns Peace
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The Last Handshake: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Episode 1: A Man of War Learns Peace
Our new series on The Ides of April begins with the remarkable life of Yitzhak Rabin—a soldier shaped by war who ultimately became one of the most controversial advocates for peace in modern Israeli history.
Born in Jerusalem in 1922 during the British Mandate, Rabin grew up in a l
Son of the Blade - Part Three
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Episode 3 — The Death of the Impossible Man
In this episode, we follow the final months of Alexander the Great — from the long return from India to the glittering capital of Babylon, where the most powerful man in the world was already planning his next conquest.
What begins as another banquet among generals soon turns into one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world
Son of the Blade - Part Three
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Episode 3 — The Death of the Impossible Man
In this episode, we follow the final months of Alexander the Great — from the long return from India to the glittering capital of Babylon, where the most powerful man in the world was already planning his next conquest.
What begins as another banquet among generals soon turns into one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world
Son of the Blade: Part Two
Episode 2: The Man Who Became a God
Victory changes the world.
Absolute victory changes the conqueror.
Now ruler of the largest empire on earth, Alexander begins to adopt the customs of Persian kings. Ceremony replaces familiarity. Distance replaces camaraderie. And whispers of divine favor begin to surround him.
But as Alexander moves closer to godhood, the men who once fought beside him begi
Son of the Blade: Part One
The Ides of April — Son of the Blade
The world didn’t change slowly.
It changed in a theater… during a celebration… with a single blade.
In Episode One of The Ides of April, we begin the story of Alexander the Great at the moment everything became possible — and everything became dangerous.
When Philip II of Macedon, the most powerful ruler in Greece, is assassinated in front of a crowd, the futur
The Blade at Aegae
The Ides of April – Part Two: The Blade at Aegae
In Part One, Philip II of Macedon rose from the margins of the Greek world to its center — forging the army, the alliances, and the vision that would reshape history.
In Part Two, his story ends.
And a far more dangerous one begins.
At the ancient capital of Aegae, a royal wedding is meant to celebrate unity and power. Greece is subdued. The Lea
The King from the Edge of Greece
🎙️ The Ides of April — Two-Part Series
Philip of Macedon: The Father Behind the Empire
Before the legend of Alexander the Great, there was the man who made his rise possible.
In this two-part series of The Ides of April, we travel to the rugged northern kingdom of Macedonia to explore the life, ambition, and violent death of Philip II of Macedon — the ruler who transformed a dismissed frontier
April's Shadow - Part Two: The Manhunt and the Plea
The Ides of April
April's Shadow - Part Two: The Manhunt and the Plea
The morning after an assassination is never quiet — it only looks that way from the outside. Inside a nation’s nervous system, everything is shaking. In this episode, The Ides of April follows the official investigation into Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, tracing the manhunt for James Earl Ray, his capture in Lond
April's Shadow: The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. - Part One
April's Shadow :
“The Balcony in Memphis”
In Episode One of this two-part Ides of April event series, we step into Memphis, 1968—not as a footnote in civil rights history, but as a pressure cooker where the fight for equality evolves into something even more threatening to power: economic justice.
Martin Luther King Jr. comes to Memphis to support the sanitation workers’ strike, sparked by the
Did She Survive?! The Quiet Death of an Empire - Part Two
THE IDES OF APRILEpisode Two: The End of the Romanovs — The Night and
the Myth
The second episode moves from ideology to execution. From the basement of the Ipatiev House to the birth of one of history’s most enduring survival myths, this is where the Romanov story truly ends—and refuses to stay buried.
CHAPTERS
Chapter Four — The Basement
In the early hours of July 17, 1918, the Romanov fami
The Devil's Ledger - January 5th, 2026
The Devil’s Ledger — January 5, 2026
Happy New Year — and welcome back. We’re kicking off 2026 with a chilling slate across the Evio universe.
We start with The Creepiest Thing I Heard This Week — a winter nightmare from Japan about the Yuki-onna, the mysterious “snow woman” who appears during blizzards… and quietly breathes the warmth out of anyone who helps her.
Then, on The Devil Within, we
The Quiet Death of an Empire - Part One
THE IDES OF APRIL
Episode One: The End of the Romanovs — Power, Abdication, and Inevitability
In this first episode, we trace how the fall of the Romanov dynasty began long before gunfire echoed in a basement. From battlefield catastrophe to political collapse, this is the story of how abdication ended authority—but not danger.
CHAPTERS
Chapter One — The Abdication
The Russian Empire collapse
BONUS: The Dagger that Killed Rasputin?
THE IDES OF APRIL — BONUS EPISODE
The Knife That Wouldn’t Stay Put: Rasputin, Provenance,
and the Seduction of Artifacts
What happens after an assassination?
Sometimes the story doesn’t end with the body—it migrates into objects.
In this bonus episode of The Ides of April, we examine the strange afterlife of a knife long
rumored to have killed Grigori Rasputin—a weapon with questionable provenance
A Christmas Assassination: The Death of Rasputin
THE IDES OF APRIL
A Christmas Assassination: The Death of Rasputin
Christmas 1916.
Russia is starving. The First World War is grinding the empire into dust. Faith, monarchy, and legitimacy are collapsing in real time.
And inside a candlelit palace, a small group of aristocrats convinces itself that killing one man might still save the nation.
In this stand-alone holiday episode of The Ides of
The Death of the New America: The Assassination of Robert Kennedy - Part Two
🕯 THE DEATH OF THE NEW AMERICA - PART TWO
“THE FALL OF ROBERT F. KENNEDY”
In Part Two, we move to Los Angeles, 1968—a city balancing glamour with growing unrest, a
fading Ambassador Hotel with a storied past, and a night when American optimism was dealt
another catastrophic blow.
We examine the life and radicalization of Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, a young immigrant shaped by
trauma, identity fra
The Death of the New America: The Assassination of Robert Kennedy - Part One
🕊 THE DEATH OF THE NEW AMERICA - PART ONE
“THE RISE OF ROBERT F. KENNEDY”
In the first installment of this two-part series, The Ides of April traces the origins of the Kennedy
dynasty—its ruthless ambition, its early tragedies, and the extraordinary forces that shaped
Robert F. Kennedy into the most unlikely moral voice of the 1960s.
We begin with the unvarnished story of Joseph P. Kennedy S
The Scholar and the Madman: The Assassination of James Garfield - Part Two
The Assassination of President James A. Garfield (Part Two)
The Martyr and the Madman — Chapters 4–6In Part Two, the gunshot is only the beginning.
President James Garfield survives the attack, but his greatest danger is not the bullet—it is the
century’s medicine. As the White House transforms into a sickroom, Dr. Willard Bliss assumes
control of the case with the fatal confidence of a man convin
The Scholar and the Madman: The Assassination of James A. Garfield
PART ONE
The Assassination of President James A. Garfield (Part One)
The Scholar and the Madman — Chapters 1–3
In Part One of our two-episode event, we enter the final summer of the 19th century and watch the American Republic stand on the edge of transformation.
President James Abram Garfield, a reluctant leader with a brilliant mind, rises from obscurity to the highest office in the nation.
The Dagger & The Crown: The Assassination of Francisco Pizarro - Part Two
THE IDES OF APRIL
The Dagger & The Crown: The Assassination of Francisco
Pizarro
Part Two — The Blade Beneath the Crown
The city of Lima rises — proud, radiant, and trembling under the weight of its own ambition.
Francisco Pizarro stands atop the world he carved from blood and myth, convinced that stone,
cathedral bells, and royal seals will insulate him from consequence. But cities cast sha
The Dagger & The Crown: The Assassination of Francisco Pizarro - Part One
THE IDES OF APRIL
The Dagger & The Crown: The Assassination of Francisco
Pizarro
Part One — When Gold First Sang
Before there was an empire carved into the spine of the Andes, there was a boy in Extremadura
shaped by hunger, illegitimacy, and the conviction that the world owed him more than soil and
silence. This first half of our journey into the rise and fall of Francisco Pizarro explores
⛪ Blood and Papal Gold — Part Two
⛪ The Keys of Blood — Part Two
Presented by the Evio Creative Podcast Network
Before popes sat behind a curtain of velvet and Swiss guards… before the Church wrapped itself in ceremony and certainty… there was a Rome so fragile, a single whisper could break it.
In Part Two of The Keys of Blood: The Assassination of Pope John VIII, we descend into the final hours of a papacy balancing between fa
⛪ Blood and Papal Gold – Part One
⛪ Blood and Papal Gold – Part One
Presented by the Evio Creative Podcast Network
Before the Vatican was marble and gold… before the Church had armies and crowns… there was Rome — a ruin with a heartbeat.
In this first half of The Keys of Blood: The Assassination of Pope John VIII, we enter the smoke and silence of the ninth century — a time when popes ruled by letter instead of sword, when faith w
The Shot Heard Around the World: The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand - Part Two
The Shot Heard Around the World — Part II
Chapters 4–6: “The Plotters,” “The Shot Heard Around the World,” “The War to End All Wars”
A wrong turn.A teenage assassin.And a single moment that tore the modern world apart.
In Part II of The Shot Heard Around the World, Branden Morgan takes us inside the conspiracy that killed the Archduke — and the avalanche that followed.From Gavrilo Princip’s des
The Shot Heard Around the World: The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
🎙️ The Ides of AprilThe Shot Heard Around the World — Part I
Chapters 1–3: “The Heir of an Empire,” “A City on Edge,” “Europe in Tinder”
He was born to rule an empire he never truly believed in.Archduke Franz Ferdinand — heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, reformer, romantic, and the man whose death would ignite the modern age.
In this sweeping first part of The Shot Heard Around the World, Br
The Assassination of Julius Caesar - Part Two
The Ides of April: The Assassination of Julius Caesar (Part II)
In the conclusion of our two-part story on the fall of the Roman Republic, host Branden Morgan of The Devil Withincontinues the saga of Julius Caesar’s last days and their aftermath.
This episode covers the final three chapters:
• The Fallout — Mark Antony seizes the moment, and Rome’s streets erupt in chaos.
• Judgm
The Assassination of Julius Caesar
The Ides of April: The Assassination of Julius Caesar (Part I)
The Ides of April is back—and now it’s a weekly series of new stories from across history, narrated by Branden Morganof The Devil Within.
In this two-part debut story, we return to the Roman Republic at its breaking point. Part I covers the first three chapters of Julius Caesar’s dramatic rise and bloody fall:
• The Rise of C
EP8 This Dust Was Once the Man
The Ides of April – Episode 8: This Dust Was Once the Man
In the final episode of The Ides of April, the story closes with the aftermath of John Wilkes Booth’s death and the turbulent legal and political fallout that followed Lincoln’s assassination. Booth’s body, secretly buried to avoid turning it into a shrine, became the centerpiece of a deceptive operation involving a staged burial at sea. M
EP7 | To Live and Die in Dixie
Episode 7: To Live and Die in Dixie
By April 25, 1865, John Wilkes Booth should have been long gone—on a train, over the border, maybe even in Mexico. Instead, he lingered at the Garrett farm, unaware that the Union cavalry was closing in. In this episode, the net tightens. A chance conversation on a Virginia porch puts Booth’s pursuers just hours behind him. Inside the Garrett’s tobacco barn, a
EP6 | Thus Always to Tyrants
EPISODE 6: “Thus Always to Tyrants”
“Sic Semper Tyrannis.” Booth’s cry echoed through Ford’s Theatre—words that would seal his fate.
In this episode, The Ides of April traces Booth’s final days on the run. We explore his writings, his delusions of grandeur, and his doomed flight through Virginia as the manhunt closes in.
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EP5 | Ghosts of the Potomac
🎙️ The Ides of April
Episode 5: Ghosts of the Potomac
As Abraham Lincoln’s body lies in state, the manhunt intensifies.
In this episode, we turn to the quiet architect of vengeance: Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. As the capital mourns, Stanton mobilizes the full force of the Union Army to bring Booth to justice—calling in generals, detectives, and even suspending civil liberties. Meanwhile, Bo
EP4| ... to the Ages
🎙️ The Ides of April — Episode 4: “…to the Ages”
On the night of April 14, 1865, a young Union Army surgeon named Dr. Charles Leale bought a last-minute ticket to Ford’s Theatre—not to see the play, but to catch a glimpse of the President. What he didn’t expect was to become the first physician at Abraham Lincoln’s side after the shot that changed history.
In this episode, Alec Baldwin guides us
EP3 | Joy Cometh in the Morning
THE IDES OF APRIL
EPISODE 3: “Joy Cometh in the Morning”Show Notes:November 1864. A night at the theater becomes a night of terror.
In this episode of The Ides of April, Alec Baldwin tells the story of the fateful performance of Julius Caesar that united the Booth brothers on stage—and foreshadowed the tragedy to come. From a Confederate plot to burn New York City to Booth’s growing obsession wi
EP2 | Tragedy and Comedy
EPISODE 2: “Tragedy and Comedy”
The stage is set. The war is over. But for John Wilkes Booth, the fight has just begun.
In Episode Two of The Ides of April, we follow Booth’s transformation from frustrated actor to radical conspirator. From failed kidnapping plots to brazen plans of coordinated assassinations, Booth and his band of loyal followers edge closer to infamy. We trace the roots of his
EP1 | Northern Aggression
EPISODE 1: Northern Aggression
April 1865. The Civil War ends—but the peace is fragile, and the nation stands at the edge of chaos.
In this first episode of The Ides of April, we explore the days leading to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. We uncover the towering egos, the desperate plots, and the fractures in a nation struggling to heal. What drove John Wilkes Booth—a celebrity actor and s
The Ides of April: OFFICIAL TRAILER
The Ides of April with Alec Baldwin | Official Podcast Channel
The Ides of April is a gripping historical podcast that takes listeners inside the seventeen pivotal days that reshaped America forever: the end of the Civil War, the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and the largest manhunt in U.S. history.
Hosted by Alec Baldwin, this immersive series blends dramatic narration, expert ins
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