Thanks for listening to “Meeteetse Stories” Season 4! In this episode, we dive into the mysterious past of former Meeteetse resident Peter Perrin and his connection to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
For more on Peter Perrin, listen to Season 1 of “Meeteetse Stories” or check out this blog post on the Meeteetse Museums website: https://meeteetsemuseums.org/meeteetses-civil-war-veterans/
To learn more about the USS Montauk, the assassination of President Lincoln, and spies in the Civil War, explore these sources:
https://patch.com/new-york/southampton/bp--the-story-of-the-ironclad-uss-montauk-in-the-civil-war
https://www.southamptonhistory.org/post/the-union-iron-clad-monitor-montauk
https://www.history.nd.gov/publications/lincolns-bodyguard.pdf
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/john-wilkes-booth
https://www.visitmaryland.org/article/who-was-john-wilkes-booth
https://library.indstate.edu/about/units/rbsc/neff/pdfs/guttridge_identification.pdf
https://americanhistory.si.edu/lincoln/booth-and-lincoln
If you’re interested in becoming a member of the Meeteetse Museums, check out our website: https://meeteetsemuseums.org/
The music in this episode is:
“Blue Digression” by David Dellacroce from Free Music Archives, licensed under CC BY 4.0. or CC BY-SA 4.0.
“Mysterious” by Tom Aldrich is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
“Mysterious Footprints” by Nutmeg is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
