Posted on 02/19/2007 8:23:24 AM PST by Borges
Sic Semper Tyrannis
---here's a good reference, which discounts most of the conspiracies---
--http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Moon-Assassination-Abraham-Lincoln/dp/0813191513/sr=1-1/qid=1171904849/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-2718909-5760120?ie=UTF8&s=books
That was one of Booth's many body doubles.
No no, it's the Priory of Sion that is in Scotland. The Knights are in France.
The Elders of Zion are in the back room of a kosher deli in West Palm Beach.
I noted the same thing. As I recall also, Mrs. Payne did indeed have a daughter.
Good point and I imagine anyone at that time with the name John W. Booth would have attracted alot of stares. Solution would be to change your name.
Interesting
It says that there was a daughter born shortly after the marriage. I would think they could try to test the DNA of one of her known descendants (if she has any), I assume they have some source from a Booth relative to test against.
Correct me if I am wrong but wasn't there someone who put Booth up for the night and tended his wounds/injuries not knowing he was being pursued for the assassination, and who was later tried and hanged?
IIRC news of Lincoln's assassination did not reach the countryside until many many days after the fact so people could not possibly know Booth was on the run for that crime. Yet people that aided him were imprisoned, hung or both.
Au contraire. Mudd was well-acquainted with Booth, and numerous witnesses placed the two of them together several times in the year prior to the assassination, as well as with John Surratt and other conspirators. Mudd lied to investigators, repeatedly, about what he knew of Booth, and was caught concealing evidence.
This isn't a new story - I have a 1967 copy here of "The Edge Of The Chair", from Harper & Row 67-22500; anthology of stories one of which containing William Shepherds' "Shattering the myth of John Wilkes Booth's escape" and goes into the story with great detail.
The story apparently surfaced in the November, 1924 issue of[i]Harper's Monthly Magazine[/i] There are not surprisingly at least two possible candidates for the "real" John Wilkes Booth. A man named "St. Helen", and the Enid, Oklahoma legend of David George - which in this article seems to refute. He died penniless in a hotel, although there is a cancelled check with his "D.E. George" signature, which presumably be compared to known examples of Booth.
There were attempts through the courts within the past 6-10 years, to have Booth's body exhumed for testing, to make sure he was actually buried in the family plot at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore. From what I recall, the Judge would not approve the exhumation due to the fact that Booth's body was actually buried beneath at least two other family members, and he would not allow those bodies to be disturbed in order to get to Booth's. I believe there are laws in Baltimore that prevent exhumation if other burials will be affected.
The Mutter Museum in Philadelphia has a piece of Booth, rather than him finding a piece of human jerky, perhaps they could simply run a test on the piece there, or maybe exhume the body from the Booth family plot(or sneek in at night and steal a piece hoping it will have valid DNA). Really the evidence is out there to exclude the story we all know, or prove it is already out there and easy to find just accessing it is a different story.
Re: your #25. He was an actor with a LARGE ego. He would not have existed without letting people know who he was, under any circumstance.
Dr. Mudd was imprisoned at Ft. Jefferson on Dry Tortugas.
Don't recall whether he died there or not. I'm thinking that he was released prior to his death.
I do recall Roger Mudd, newscaster, announcing that Dr. Mudd was pardoned, exonerated, something like.
The atmosphere surrounding the assasination was such that a rush to judgement occurred. 17 or 18 indiviuals were hung as consiprators but Mudd received a life sentence. In 1869 Andrew Johnson pardoned Mudd. What do you know that Johnson didn't?
Back in 1993, an anthropologist discovered Lewis Powell's skull in a drawer and it was returned to a family member for burial in Geneva, Florida.
A fellow researcher friend of mine, Mike Kauffman has been researching the Lincoln Assassination for over 30 years. In 2004 he published "American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies." I highly recommend it for those interested in the topic.
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