The FReeper Foxhole Profiles The Assassination of Lincoln and the Accused - October 5th, 2003

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[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on October 05:
1703 Jonathan Edwards US, theologian/philosopher (Original Sin)
1713 Denis Diderot France, encyclopedist (Dictionnaire Encyclop‚dique)
1830 Chester Alan Arthur Fairfield Vt, (R) 21st Pres (1881-85)
1840 John Addington Symonds Brit historian/writer (Probs in Greek Ethics)
1864 Louis LumiŠre with brother Auguste made 1st motion picture in 1895
1882 Robert Hutchings Goddard Worcester Mass, rocket pioneer
1887 Ren‚ Cassin pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1968)
1902 Ray Kroc Illinois, founder of McDonalds/owner (San Diego Padres)
1904 John Hoyt Bronxville NY, actor (Gimme a Break, Tom Dick & Mary)
1908 Joshua Logan Broadway producer (South Pacific)
1912 Tony Martin Brooklyn NY, announcer (Arthur Godfrey)
1919 Allen Ludden Mineral Point Wisc, TV host (Password)
1919 Donald Pleasence Worksop England, actor (Fantastic Voyage, Halloween)
1921 Bill Willis AAFC, NFL guard (Cleveland Browns)
1923 Glynis Johns Pretoria South Africa, actress (Mary Poppins)
1923 Philip Berrigan militant priest (Chicago 7)
1924 Bill Dana Quincy Mass, comedian/actor (Jose Jimenez)
1925 Gail Davis Little Rock Ark, actress (Annie Oakley)
1929 Richard F Gordon Jr Seattle, Capt USN/astronaut (Gemini 11, Apol 12)
1930 Pavel R Popovich Ukraine, cosmonaut (Vostok 4, Soyuz 14)
1930 Skip Homeier Chicago Illinois, actor (Beachhead, Dakota Incident)
1933 Diane Cilento Australia, actress (Agony & Ecstasy, Wicker Man)
1935 Peter Brown NYC, actor (Lawman, Laredo, Bold & Beautiful)
1937 Barry Switzer football coach (Oklahoma)
1941 Ricardo Hoffmann marathon swimmer (299 miles)
1943 Steve Miller Milwaukee, rocker (Abracadabra, Space Cowboy)
1948 Sal Viscuso Brooklyn NY, actor (Soap, Montefuscos)
1950 Jeff Conway NYC, actor (Bobby-Taxi)
1951 Bob Geldof pop musician (Boomtown Rats, Band Aid)
1951 Karen Allen Illinois, actress (Cruising, Starman, Wanderers)
1951 Leah Poulos-Mueller US, speed skater (Olympic-gold-1980)
1952 Clive Barker producer (Hell Raiser)
1954 Duncan Regehr Alberta Canada, actor (Wizards & Warriors)
1955 Leo Barnes rocker (Hothouse Flowers-Don't Go)
1957 Jeanne Evert tennis player, Chris' sister
1958 Brent W Jett Jr Pontiac Mich, USN Lt Commander/astronaut
1958 Lee Thompson sax (Madness-Baggy Trousers)
1959 Maya Lin, American architect who designed the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1962 Ken Noda NYC, pianist (Rivalry)
1962 Michael Andretti Indy-car racer/Auto Hall of Fame (elected 1986)
1965 Mario Lemieux Montreal, Pitts Penguin (#66) high scorer
1965 Penny Baker Buffalo NY, playmate (January, 1984)
1969 Karyn Parsons actress (Hilary-Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
1974 Douglas Emerson Glendale Calif, actor (Robbie-Herbie The Love Bug)
1975 Scott E Weinger NYC, actor (Steve Taylor-The Family Man)
2176 Winston Matthew Kyle Perth, Australia (Star Trek)

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Deaths which occurred on October 05:
0578 Justinus II, Byzantine emperor (565-78),
1285 Philippe III, the Stout, King of France (1270-85),
1813 Tecumseh, Shawnee Indian chief/English Gen
1941 Louis D Brandeis 1st Jewish Supreme Court Justice, dies at 84
1967 Clifton C Williams Jr astronaut, dies at 35, in T-38 jet crash
1976 Barbara Nichols actress (Pajama Game, Loved One), dies at 46
1981 Gloria Grahame actress (Sue-Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 55
1981 Jud Strunk singer/comedian (Laugh-In), dies at 48
1984 Leonard Rossiter actor, dies of a heart attack at 57
1990 Meir Kahane founder of Jewish defense league, assassinated at 58

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1965 BARRETT THOMAS J. LOMAX IL.
[02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1965 HIVNER JAMES O. ELIZABETHTOWN PA.
[02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1965 POGREBA DEAN A. THREE FORKS MT.
1965 SEEBER BRUCE G. LOWPOINT IL.
[02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1966 ANDREWS WILLIAM RICHARD EUGENE OR.
[VOICE CONTACT WOUNDED REMAINS RETURNED 9/90]
1966 BEENE JAMES A. BURBANK CA.
[ACFT BROKE UP OVER WATER]
1967 MATHENY DAVID P. BAKERSFIELD CA.
[02/19/68 RELEASED]
1967 TRAUTMAN KONRAD W. OBERLIN PA.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1968 LAWRENCE GREGORY P. PHENIX AL.
1968 STRIDE JAMES D. JR. DENISON TX.
1968 WESTER ALBERT D. TERRELL TX.
1970 DAVIDSON DAVID A. EAST RIVERSIDE MD.
1970 GASSMAN FRED A. FORT WALTON BEACH FL.
1972 ALPERS JOHN H. JR. BOULDER CO.
[03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1972 BATES RICHARD L. PLAZA ND.
[03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1972 LATHAM JAMES D. MISSION HILLS KS.
[03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 98]
1972 LEWIS KEITH H. CLEVELAND OH.
[03/29/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

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On this day...
0610 Heraclitus' fleet takes Constantinople
869 4th Council of Constantinople (8th ecumenical council) opens
1450 Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX
1582 Gregorian calendar introduced in Italy, other Catholic countries
1762 The opera "Orfeo Ed Euridice" is produced (Vienna)
1813 Battle of the Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British
1863 Confederate sub David damages Union ship Ironsides
1864 Battle of Allatoona, 1/3 of Union troops die repulsing the South
1864 Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone (approx 60,000 die)
1867 Last day of Julian calendar in Alaska
1875 Palace Hotel on Market Street, SF opens
1877 Nez Perce Chief Joseph surrenders to Colonel Nelson Miles in Montana Territory, after a 1,700-mile trek to reach Canada falls 40 miles short
1892 Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeyville, Kansas bank holdup
1906 Henry Mathewson (NY Giants) walks 14 men
1907 Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays 1st game (Mtl 17 Tor 8)
1907 Phila A's Rube Vickers no-hits Wash Senators, 4-0 in 5 inning game
1908 Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey, Ferdinand I becomes Tsar
1910 Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic
1912 Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
1912 Yanks win final game at Hilltop stadium
1921 1st World Series radio broadcast, Yanks beat Giants 3-0 (World Series #18)
1921 Present constitution of Liechtenstein comes into effect
1922 Yanks & Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie world series game (World Series #19)
1923 Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star
1925 WSM-AM in Nashville Tenn begins radio transmissions
1931 1st nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Wash (Herndon & Pangborn)
1941 Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely, would have been the last out, instead Yanks score 4 and win 7-4
1942 St Louis Cards beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 1, in 39th World Series
1942 5,000 Jews of Dubno Russia massacred
1945 "Meet the Press" premieres on radio
1947 1st Presidential address televised from White House-HS Truman
1947 Al Gionfriddo makes a great catch off Joe Dimaggio in world series (World Series #44)
1953 50th World Series sees NY Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2, as NY
1953 Earl Warren sworn in as 14th chief justice of the US
1953 Yankees break own record with 5th consecutive World Series win - Billy Martin's 12 hits set record (World Series #50)
1954 Hurricane Hazel hits Eastern US
1956 Yogi Berra becomes the 4th Yank to hit a World Series Grand Slam (World Series #53)
1960 Eastern AL Electra turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor (61 die)
1962 Beatles release their 1st record "Love Me Do"
1963 Hyde St Pier re-opens as State Historical Park
1964 SF Fire Department Museum is dedicated
1965 Chuck Linster performs 6,006 consecutive push-ups
1965 Dick McInnes stays aloft almost 12 hours in a kite
1969 Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks 55-yard field goal
1969 Monty Python's Flying Circus begins airing on BBC
1970 PBS becomes a network
1970 Quebec seperatists kidnap British trade commissioner James Cross
1972 Herbert Mullin first kills, to prevent earthquakes
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer wins the Nobel Prize for literature
1980 Yanks set AL attendance mark at 2,627,417
1981 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honarary American
1982 NJ Devils 1st game, ties Pitts Penguins 3-3 at the Meadowlands
1982 Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, NM
1983 Lech Walesa wins the Nobel Peace Prize
1984 13th Space Shuttle Mission (41-G)-Challenger 6-launched
1985 Grambling's Eddie Robinson wins record 324th football game
1986 London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms
1988 Israel bans Meir Kahane's Kach Party on grounds of racism
1990 Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obscenity (Mapplethorpe photos)
1991 Actor Ted Shackelford (Knots Landing) weds Annett Wolf

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Azores, Guinea-Bisau, Maderia, Portugal : Republic Day (1910)
Bulgaria : Independence Day (1908)
Indonesia : Army Day
Lesotho : Sports Day
Massachusetts : Grandparents Day (Sunday)
Missouri : Missouri Day (Monday)
World : Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day (1928) (Monday)
Get Organized Week Begins
Mental Illness Awareness Week Begins
Family History Awareness Month

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Religious Observances
RC : Commemoration of St Placid & his companions, martyrs
Christian : Commemoration of St Flora of Beaulieu, virgin
Feast of St. Flora of Beaulieu, Virgin, (A.D. 1347).

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Religious History
_869 The Fourth Constantinople (8th Ecumenical) Council opened under Pope Adrian II in the West and Emperor Basil I in the East. During its six sessions, the council condemned iconoclasm. It was the last ecumenical council held in the East.
1744 Following his ordination, David Brainerd, 26, began three years of intense missionary labors among the Indians along the Susquehannah River in New Jersey. Increasing illness from the elements led to Brainerd's premature death, after only three years.
1833 Birth of William G. Tomer, American Civil War veteran and Methodist hymnwriter. It is to his tune, FAREWELL, that today we sing the hymn, "God Be With You Till We Meet Again."
1969 Death of Harry Emerson Fosdick, 91. He pastored Riverside Church in New York City 1926-46, and authored the enduring hymn, "God of Grace and God of Glory."
1989 Ten months after being indicted by a federal grand jury, televangelist Jim Bakker, 50, was found guilty on 24 counts of mail and wire fraud. Three weeks later, on October 24th, Bakker was fined $500,000 and sentenced to 45 years in prison.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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Thought for the day :
"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order."

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You might be in the army if...
you wont let your wife go to the px because the laundry room failed inspection.

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Murphys Law of the day...(Liebling's Law)
If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

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It's a little known fact that...
The Lone Ranger's "real" name is John Reid.

[snippy_about_it]

1962 Beatles release their 1st record "Love Me Do"

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[SAMWolf]

Good Morning Snippy.

I didn't know about the assassination attempt on Seward. I learned something new again.

As a piece of trivia:

Thank heavens for books, therefore, especially ones such as "Devious Derivations," written by Hugh Rawson and published by Crown. Mr Rawson devotes an entire page in his book to the theory you have evidently heard: that the phrase "Your name will be mud" is connected somehow to the Dr. Samuel A. Mudd who treated President Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Doctor Mudd may or may not have been in on the 1865 assassination conspiracy with Booth, who had broken his leg escaping from the scene of his crime. In any case, Mudd was convicted of conspiracy in the trial that followed, and his name, to the general public, certainly became "mud" in the sense of the phrase -- despised and reviled.

But Doctor Mudd's name is certainly no more than an interesting coincidence, for it cannot have been the source of the phrase. "Mud" had already been in use for more than 200 years, since at least 1708, as a slang term for a fool. According to Christine Ammer, in her book "Have A Nice Day -- No Problem!" (a very fine dictionary of cliches published by Plume), "mud" was commonly applied in the 19th century British Parliament to any member who lost an election or otherwise disgraced himself.

http://www.word-detective.com/100297.html

[SAMWolf]

Morning E.G.C. Another clooudy day here. No rain yet.

[SAMWolf]

Morning Feather.

[SAMWolf]

Morning GailA.

Nice Collectors plate.

[SAMWolf]

Morning Samwise.

I agree, some teachers concentrated more on memorizing dates and places than they did on what happened and why. The good teachers told you what happened and discussed why it happened and how it affected other events.

[snippy_about_it]

Good morning apackof2, you might be interested in this for further reading.

From the diary of Mary Henry

[April] 15th. We were awakened this morning by an announcement which almost made our hearts stand still with consternation. The President was shot last night in the Theater. When the morning paper was issued he was still alive although little or no hopes were entertained of his recovery but now the tolling bells tell us he has ceased to breathe. He is dead. Mr. De Bust has just told Hannah he died at ½ 7 o'clock. Deeply must the country mourn this death for although uncouth & ungainly he was true hearted, magnanimous and kind and in the present crisis ready to follow the such a course with the defeated belligerants as would win them back to their allegiance to the Government and subdue the rebellion in their hearts as well as subjugate their aims.

The South has lost in him a good & judicious friend. His successor Johnson heartily desires the death of the leaders of the rebellion & is in every way ultra in his views. I have not given the particulars of the disaster. It was announced in the yesterday's papers that the President with Gen Grant would be at Ford's Theater in the evening and a large crowd collected there in consequence. Gen Grant however left the city before night for N.Y. Mrs. Lincoln had not been well & the President went to the place of amusement with reluctance, not wishing to disappoint the audience.

Link to complete diary

[SAMWolf]

Morning aomagrat.

Everytime I see a picture of the battleships of this era I can't help thinking about:

[SAMWolf]

Morning Mayor

[SAMWolf]

Thanks Snippy. Makes you wonder if maybe they should have spent money on accomodations for the crew rather than all that fancy "artwork"

[SAMWolf]

Hi Manna!

[SAMWolf]

1970 PBS becomes a network

And it's been bashing conservatives ever since.

[SAMWolf]

I wonder how different the reconstruction period would have bee if Lincoln had not been assassinated. IMHO Booth helped bring about the very thing he feared by killing Lincoln.

[manna]

LOL, that's better! Thanks.

[SAMWolf]

[Valin]

There was thread last year(?) about Booth, there were people actually trying to defend what Booth did and saying he was a hero. Just some proof that someone can be conserative and an idiot.

[SAMWolf]

Just some proof that someone can be conserative and an idiot.

Booth was a murderer and conspirator, nothing heroic about that.

[xJones]

This is a wonderfully detailed account of everyone connected to the Lincoln assasination. If your'e not a professional historian, snippy, you should be.

I've been to Ford's Theater National Historical Site and it's really interesting. We always buy books, literature, in the National Parks bookstores, but there wasn't anything there as comprehensively put together as this. I bought books there and didn't learn nearly as much.

One of those prisoner masks was on display in the Ford's Theater Museum. No wonder Paine was "traumatized", it scared the fire out of me. And I have no sympathy for Paine, the account in the link you gave about his attack in the Seward house was vicious. His gun misfired when he aimed at Frederick Seward's head, and then he went to pistol-whipping, knife-slashing and stabbing. If his gun hadn't misfired at the start, he probably would have killed several, instead of leaving five wounded who recovered.

John Surratt certainly made out like a bandit; fleeing to Canada, then Europe and finally tried in 1867 after the hysteria had died down. He walked after his wife had swung from a rope.

Lincoln's bodyguard, John Parker of the Metropolitan Police Force, had left his post.

Don't you know, it must have been rough to live with that? And it hadn't been clear to me that if all the designated victims had been killed, the U.S. government would have been thrown into chaos as to swearing in a new president, and who knows have that would have come out.

Excellent account, and is a list of the Foxhole threads posted somewhere?

[xJones]

s a list of the Foxhole threads posted somewhere?

Criminy, it's up there at top! Doh!!!!