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Yes , it sure looks like it huh. lol
Well most of the it was the same old stories but,there was one theory of a rich business man( his name escapes me at the moment) who was to have payroll Booth's plan.
Do you mean you know the name of the rich business person referred to in the previous post? If so, could you please enlighten Illreb (who can't remember the name) and the rest of us (who didn't see the show)?
I think our new member is probably referring to Lincoln himself. I believe he can't believe that anybody would want to assassinate him.
By the way that show was on again last night here in Alabama on the history channel at 7:30. I will look through my Public TV guide and see when it's going to be shown again, but of course for you guys not fortunate enough to live in the South, it will probably be on at a different time. <grin>
Theories were bandied about, including this new little one, but in the end, nothing was conclusive except that Booth killed him and frankly I believed he acted alone because of his diary. (Don't all these crazies who are so full of themselves always keep a diary?)
The thing that of course stood out to me, as it always does in these programs, is that it was pointed out that Booth was a rabid racist. Now from what any of us on this board have read MOST people of that era, NORTH and SOUTH, were racists! Why can't they EVER say that in one of these programs? It's just another example of leading the public into believing that only the Southerners had racist tendencies.
I know I won't live to see it but some day, perhaps a hundred years from now, people learning about the war will understand that there was ample racism to go around. Perhaps too, people one hundred years from now won't be so "close" to this war that they can see it as it really was, with fault enough on both sides to go around.
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The shady operative referred to by Illreb is George Sanders. A Kentuckian and former cabinet minister in Franklin Pierce's adminstration (along with close friend Jefferson Davis), he was one of a number of Confederate agents in Canada. I don't really know anything about him. What this show brought out was the connection between him and Booth. His arrest was sought after the war in connection with the assassination; Sanders wisely dropped out of sight. What became of him I have no idea, it might have been mentioned on the program.
Ironically, though John Wilkes Booth was a rabid pro-Confederate Marylander, his family of distinguished actors was staunchly for the Union. They considered JW as strongly governed by caprice, and relatively harmless. Though was a volunteer in the Maryland militia at the time of John Brown's trial and hanging, he did not serve during the war. Wilkes' two older brothers, Edwin and Junius Brutus were close to Lincoln and actively campaigned for him. Both were more famous actors than John Wilkes, though Junius later wrote that his younger brother could have been the greatest American actor of his era. Unfortunately for all and good, he peddled his greatness for infamy.
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Yes, That it! Thank you Edward, I just couldn't remember that mans name after I heard it on that show.(LOL)His story was one of the more interesting theories on the show.
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