Posted on 07/07/2020 5:21:54 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On a sweltering July 7, 1865, a mere 12 weeks after Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theater, four of his assassin’s accomplices were hanged in the courtyard of the District of Columbia’s Washington Arsenal — present-day Fort McNair, and specifically its tennis courts.
The exact nature of the conspiracy against the man who had seen the North to victory in the Civil War has been debated ever since actor John Wilkes Booth lodged a ball from his one-shot Derringer behind Honest Abe’s ear. But it was a conspiracy — an astoundingly bold one.
Simultaneous with Booth’s successful attack upon Lincoln, there was an unsuccessful attempt to kill Secretary of State William Seward; it would emerge in the investigation that another man had been detailed to murder Vice President Andrew Johnson, but got drunk and chickened out. The apparent upshot: with the President and Vice President dead, new national elections would be required to replace the Senator who would become acting president — and with the Secretary of State dead too, there’d be nobody to implement them. Booth was trying to paralyze the North with its own constitutional machinery in some desperate hope of reviving the defeated South...
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
Can you fix the title?
that’s it. replace Abraham Lincoln Memorial with John Wilkes Booth Memorial.
Also, augment the George Washington Monument with the Miley Cyrus Monument. Have her twerking against the repurposed phallic symbol.
Replace the Jefferson Memorial with a big pile of money representing how much Hunter Biden got from the Chinese Communists.
Replace the Tomb of the Unknowns with 24/7 video gaming.
And, replace the White House with a marijuana dispensary.
And continue posting articles on presidential assassinations so some one will get the hint and act.
To what? I cut and pasted it from the author’s piece.
If you had been paying attention, you would have noticed that I have posted one piece a day from the same website.
I have posted pieces about the executions of serial or spree killers, historical figures such as the supposed lovers of Anne Boleyn, religious martyrs, resistance fighters during WWII, and various others.
12 weeks to investigate and serve justice. That’s back when America’s courts and society were actually just.
Mea culpa. I misread “for” as “of.” Sorry to have bothered you.
BUMP for later biewing
I had the opposite reaction to this story: try any funny business and hang by the neck until dead.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.