NYC: Is the secret of Lincoln’s assassination

Examiner ^ | January 14 | Laura Harrison McBride

[nickcarraway]

Ping

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

This is a job for Whoraldo!

[43north]

I think the excavation needs to be part of any stimulus package...

[Impy]

“If those pages are ever verified, they described the involvement of some of Lincoln’s friends, Confederate leaders, War Department Secretary Stanton, and northern businessmen.”

Fer reals?

[jeffc]

Quick! Call Ben Gates!

[Jack Hammer]

One is reliably informed that beneath the front paws of the Sphinx, and at a depth of fifty to one hundred feet, there lie the remains of a post office at which letters could be posted to the aliens who drew the Cuzco maps of Peru. Perhaps the missing pages of Booth’s diary are down there...?

[rabscuttle385]

The tunnel was featured on History Channel’s “Cities of the Underground” last night.

[Lou Budvis]

JWB also had ties to the Chicago mob and Cuban exiles who hated Lincoln for his failure to invade Cuba and kill Fidel’s great-parents.

[Jack Black]

ping!! cool

[torchthemummy]

The tunnels cool but the supposed reason the missing 18 pages would be there is nowhere to be found. And that a guy is doing a tour (and has supposedly the blessing of the city) seems to indicate that there is nothing to the story of the missing pages or we would have heard about it by now.

[machogirl]

didn’t i just rent a dvd eerily similar?

[neb52]

Why was the subway line closed? It wasn’t open for very long.

[neb52]

I don’t understand the connection, either. It seems to be assumptions that some of the conspirators lived in NY and might have used the subway, thus hiding things there since it was closed. (Shrugs)

[SunkenCiv]

Yup. The plotters planned to kill the President, Vice President, and Sec’y of State, which (at that time, not any more) would have put Stanton in the White House. The Sec’y of State was attacked as he lay sleeping and almost died. Another conspirator arrived at the Vice President’s residence, but was fought off by (if memory serves) the VP’s son.

Booth was successful in his murder. He rode out of D.C. across a bridge that was guarded.

The bridges out of Washington were all closed after dark, and (because the country was still on a war footing) military sentries were posted. When the watch changed on that bridge, the commander rode up and told the sentries that a man might try to leave, and that if he gave such-and-such a password, that he should be allowed to cross. Some hours later, Booth rode up, was challenged, gave the password, and left town.

Those pages “found in 1977” came from a box in the attic of the house where Stanton had lived during the war. After those were found, analyzed, and announced, I’ve never heard much about them.

Need I say it? Stanton was a Democrat. :’)

In later years, Stanton tried to get appointed to the Supreme Court.

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks nickcarraway. I didn't see anything about how the missing diary pages supposedly got buried in a tunnel that was closed before the Civil War began. :') Sounds like a great way to drum up business though. ;') Page on early NY subways. Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[SunkenCiv]

Atlantic Avenue tunnel

Google

[Molly Pitcher]

Stanton was a Democrat, yes, but he came to admire Lincoln greatly, and the men became very close. Lincoln used the old Soldier's home as a summer getaway. The only other family with a house there on the grounds was the Stanton family.

I would also like to add that after the two men's deaths, the two men's sons remained close for decades.

This would not have been the case if Lincoln's surviving son Robert Todd Lincoln believed Stanton had anything to do with his father's death. Indeed, the opposite is true. Robert was deeply grateful to Stanton for his friendship and service to his father.

Finally, no reputable historian has ever believed the Secretary of War was part of a Lincoln assassination plot.

Oh, and Stanton was appointed & confirmed to the USSC. He died before he could take his seat.

[mass55th]

"The tunnels cool but the supposed reason the missing 18 pages would be there is nowhere to be found."

I don't understand why no one has suggested that he and David Herold could have used those missing pages to wipe their butts while they were on the lamb.

[mass55th]

"Another conspirator arrived at the Vice President’s residence, but was fought off by (if memory serves) the VP’s son."

A slight correction: Sec. of State Seward was recuperating from a bad carriage accident. If not for his wearing a jaw splint, he might have been killed. He was stabbed several times in the face with a Bowie knife wielded by Louis Powell (aka Paine). It was Seward's son Frederick who was beaten severely on the head by Powell with the pistol that had misfired. He wasn't expected to survive, but he did. As for the V.P., George Atzerodt was supposed to assassinate him, but he chickened out. He was later taken into custody when he showed up at Mary Surratt's boarding house at the same time investigators were there. He claimed he was doing some work for Mrs. Surratt, but she denied even knowing him.