——————I've always wondered why they shot Booth rather than capture him for trial. You'd think the US government would want to make an example of a presidential assassin.
joseph lynch while doing research on the missing pages claimed in 1975 to have found them I did not know the outcome just the story. Also the individual soldier who removed the book from booth and gave it to the war Department claimed it was intact from their it was handed to Sec. Stanton.. And that is where they believe the pages were removed . There is more information on the Internet just ask booth diary missing pages.Source?
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Boston Corbett was not the most sane person around even then, he was known as odd and very eccentric, even erratic. He also worked as a hatter before and after the war. He was also known for his strong religious sentiment.
I have actually had the same thought! But at the same time they were brought newspapers which could have been used as well.IMO the missing pages were used by Booth & possibly Harold as toilet paper. They were out in swamp & im sure “natured called” during their stay out there.
I will see what I can find on this. Thanks.joseph lynch while doing research on the missing pages claimed in 1975 to have found them I did not know the outcome just the story. Also the individual soldier who removed the book from booth and gave it to the war Department claimed it was intact from their it was handed to Sec. Stanton.. And that is where they believe the pages were removed . There is more information on the Internet just ask booth diary missing pages.
———————I have actually had the same thought! But at the same time they were brought newspapers which could have been used as well.
I will see what I can find on this. Thanks.
————————It's much more intriguing to think of the missing pages as a cover up than to think of them as toilet paper. For that reason, the speculation will never go away.
truth be said you are probably right aat the very least you've got a smile out of me thank you and are————————
Just being real Pat
I'm gonna' watch this one, too. Thanks for sharing Maybe we could all watch it and compare notes at the weekend? (which is probably when I'm most likely to get the time). Either way, I will continue to watch this thread with interest...
Finally managed to watch the whole thing and it raises a lot of questions which may have already been answered in some of the books written about it. Here goes:I've started watching it during my break times so sure, would be happy to do that. Keep in mind the movie is old and of the 70s quality...so don't expect Oscar award performances!
So I've read a number of books on the assassination and the conspirators.
All this shows is that nineteenth-century anti-Catholicism still exists on the internet.I found a web site that goes in detail how the Catholics assassinated Lincoln most shrugged their shoulders when hearing this but the Jesuits have been the backbone of many conspiracies in History.
A defender of the Jesuits assassination list...
https://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2013/07/11/no-the-jesuits-didnt-kill-abraham-lincoln/
The Society of Jesus has been putting up with this kind of nonsense for a very long time and no myth has been quite so persistent as the supposed Jesuit addiction to political assassination. In the mid-17th century, one William Crashaw denounced the burgeoning Jesuit educational project as a sham: the real reason behind all the schools, Crashaw opined, was to “pick out the finest young wits of the world” and “train them up [so] that the pope will never want instruments to kill kings”. The subsequent roster of supposed Jesuit targets (some despatched, others not) is impressive: Henry III, Henry IV, and Louis XIV of France, various English monarchs and an alarming number of US Presidents: William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, James A Garfield, William McKinley and Abraham Lincoln among them.
Here is the site that goes into detail behind the Catholic gang that assassinated Lincoln...
http://www.truthontheweb.org/abe.htm
Snippets...
The Secret Treaty of Verona
The beginning of the nineteenth century was a time of change for the papacy of Rome. Pius VII was Pope (from 1800-23) and had issued a condemnation of bible societies as 'a most abominable invention that destroyed the very foundations of religion.' This new era of liberty and republics had diminished much of the papal power but had nowhere near paralyzed them. They strongly hated these freedoms and continually were they set on destroying them and on regaining their former absolute power as in the time of the Inquisitions. The United States -and its President - were obstacles that had to be dealt with.
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The Jesuit Oath
The execution of the treaty's plans was placed under the watchful eye of the Jesuits. The equality of all men taught by Christ has always been hated and feared by the Jesuits despite all their protestations of supporting Christianity. The plans laid by these men are very long range and quite detailed and have but one goal.
"It will be well for the reader to understand that the church of Rome with its sixteen centuries of intrigue, plans fifty or a hundred years ahead. The ultimate goal is to throw the lever of time back by restoring the Pope as the "universal arbiter" from whom all the rulers of the earth must receive their authority to rule, as during the Dark Ages."~
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The Jesuits and the political powers of the Holy Alliance had soon set their sights on the United States. The U.S. was a model to other nations of how a new republic could "break away" and this gave these other "rebels" strength in hope. If they could make an example out of the U.S. they would be in better position to crush any other "new" popular (representative) governments. Very soon, the young American nation would elect its 16th President who strongly believed in a representative government and this man would be an obstacle that, by their oath, the Jesuits must depose or destroy.
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The Pope Marks Lincoln for Death
The Pope, at this time, in Rome was Pius IXth (1846-78). Pius was the first Pope to officially declare himself to be 'infallible'. He also was very close to the General of the Jesuits, also called the Black Pope, who at this time was Cardinal Giacomo Antonelli. Pius was on very good terms with Jeff Davis and wrote him acknowledging him with such titles as "honorable Mr. President" - titles which showed his approval of the Confederates States of America as a sovereign entity and Davis as its leader.
On June 10th, 1864, Lincoln took Chiniquy for a ride in his carriage to talk inbetween his visits to the thirty thousand wounded soldiers picked up on the battle-fields of the seven days' battle of the Wilderness, and the thirty days' battle around Richmond. The only thought which seemed to occupy the mind of the President was the part which Rome had in that horrible struggle. Chiniquy tells us that Abraham Lincoln said the following words more than once:
There is even but I just want to set up the plot... for the catholic Gang...
All this shows is that nineteenth-century anti-Catholicism still exists on the internet.