The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators: Mary Surratt & the 7 Hoods
After the assassination of Lincoln and the attempted assassination of Secretary of State William Seward, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton doggedly pursued the apprehension and prosecution of the...
View ArticleJohn Wilkes Booth Uses the N-Word
April 11, 1865 became the official day of celebrating the end of the Civil War. An even larger crowd was assembled on the White House lawn than the night before. (See last post.) The band was playing...
View ArticleTalk Like Shakespeare Today
Today is William Shakespeare’s 445th birthday. In honor of the occasion, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley wants us all to celebrate by using the Bard’s words, declaring that today is “Talk Like Shakespeare...
View ArticleJohn Wilkes Booth had a Tattoo
For 12 days, Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth was a fugitive, successfully eluding Union manhunters who were combing the countryside south of Washington, D.C., in search of him. With a painful...
View ArticleThe Man Who Killed John Wilkes Booth
The man who killed John Wilkes Booth was as mad as a hatter. His name was Boston Corbett. Actually, his name was not originally Boston Corbett, but Thomas T. Corbett. He became a reborn evangelical...
View ArticleThe Lincoln Assassination: Double Date with Death
It was the morning of Friday, April 14, 1865, the last full day of Abraham Lincoln’s life. It was a beautiful spring day. The president was looking forward to an evening at the theater. Plays relaxed...
View ArticleThe Murder of President Lincoln. Appeal to the Colored People!
It was April 24, 1865 – ten days since President Lincoln was assassinated – and his killer still remained at large. On the night of April 14, John Wilkes Booth had shot the president in the head,...
View ArticleWhere is Lee Harvey Oswald Buried?
I was sitting at the hair salon today, getting highlights and a cut, talking with my stylist about assassins and where they were buried. I know where Abraham Lincoln‘s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is...
View ArticleAbe Lincoln: The Freedmen’s Monument
Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln Frederick Douglass delivered a speech at the unveiling of the Freedmen’s Monument in Memory of Abraham Lincoln at Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1876....
View ArticleJohn Wilkes Booth: The Sister and the Fiancée
The 19th-century American writer, Asia Booth Clarke (1835-1888), was born into a family of actors. Her famous brothers were Edwin Booth, Junius Booth, and John Wilkes Booth. On the morning of April...
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