Posted on 04/14/2018 4:11:34 AM PDT by harpygoddess
Although he actually died at 7:30 the following morning, today is the anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) on 14 April 1865, only five days after Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Lincoln was very fond of the theater, and that evening, he and Mrs. Lincoln - likely in a celebratory mood because of the end of the Civil War - attended a performance of the comedy, Our American Cousin, by English playwright Tom Taylor at Ford's Theater on 10th Street NW in Washington.
There, following the intermission, actor and Southern sympathizer John Wilkes Booth managed to gain access to the Presidential box through a series of security lapses, and shot Lincoln in the back of head with a small pistol. He then jumped down onto the stage, shouted "Sic semper tynannis!" ("Thus always to tyrants!"), and although breaking his leg in the process, made his escape.
Lincoln's assassination was part of a larger conspiracy which also targeted Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward. Johnson's intended attacker lost his nerve, but Seward was seriously wounded in a stabbing attack that same night.
Booth was ultimately tracked down and killed on 26 April, and four other conspirators were hanged on 7 July 1865.
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While reading BOR’s book on the assassination of Lincoln, I was brought to tears more than once. How difficult it must have been to accept when it actually happened.
It shook their senses. They had NEVER imagined that it could be possible that someone who witnessed the assassination of Lincoln would live long enough to talk about it on national television. And there are still many today who will remember watching Mr. Seymour share his story.
Ancient history isn't so ancient after all.
There is another clip somewhere on YT, don’t recall enough about it, basically, another old TV show, the last known living person to have seen the body of Lincoln — during the most recent re-interment, the day the casket was finally buried in a block of concrete to keep people from nonchalantly flipping it open and having a look.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleetwood_Lindley
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10322/fleetwood-herndon-lindley
http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/news/rietveldmem.htm
and, apparently the second-to-last:
http://wesclark.com/jw/last_man.html
Emancipation Day is a holiday in Washington DC to mark the anniversary of the signing of the Compensated Emancipation Act... On April 16, 1862, Abraham Lincoln, who was the US president at the time, signed the Compensated Emancipation Act, which freed more than 3000 slaves in the District of Columbia.
https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/emancipation-day-dc
Charles Guiteau, Garfield's assassin, was a Republican. Leon Czolgosz, McKinley's assassin, was an Anarchist. Oswald was a Marxist.
I have often reflected on the irony of April 15th as the date on which tax returns are due to the IRS. It has made it easy for me to remember the date on which Lincoln died, also.
IMO Lincoln was someone who had no respect for the rule of law. And I have read plenty about his administration and the history of that era.
to be continued .............
Lincoln's "Solution" was to induce blacks to leave the United States and go to other countries. It was the policy he had since before he became President, when he was an officer of an organization dedicated to doing this.
He wanted no "mixing."
Now you've gone and done it! You'll catch flack for that statement. :)
Corruption wasn't began in the Lincoln era, but it blossomed and bore its most extensive fruit in the era subsequent to it.
Lincoln was an influence peddler/briber/wheeler-dealer/coercer/manipulator from the very beginning, and yes, he didn't have much use for the rule of law.
Just, wow!
Actors do not like republicans and still shoot off their mouths today. Better then a pistol.
One of the last Civil War widows died in 2003!
Although it was common for an older man to take a much younger woman to be his wife back then. IIRC, I read that sometimes it was primarily so that the government pension would be passed down, so even a very old man would “marry” a very young gal just so she would get the benefits.
#23 Hmm... seems someone was trying to get rid of the witnesses!
Just two months before his death, Seymour agreed to make an appearance on the February 9, 1956, episode of the CBS TV panel show I’ve Got a Secret.
Snip: Lincoln’s coffin has been moved 17 times and the coffin opened 5 times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_J._Seymour
In an interview on January 29, 1963, three days before his death, Lindley recalled what he had seen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleetwood_Lindley
You can see the segment and read the letter here.
-PJ
No, the Suuth did the attacking, but nice try.
IMO Lincoln was someone who had no respect for the rule of law. And I have read plenty about his administration and the history of that era.
Obviously not.
I see the leader of the Boobeoisie has arrived.
The SOuth was high jacked by democrats just as California is. It is democrat which as a terrorist organization pushed the South to confrontation
Not a bad analogy -- the Republican Party wasn't allowed on the ballot in some of the eventual Confed states; Calinfernal has a "first two past the post" rule in a single primary (all candidates, regardless of party), an obvious gross violation of principle if not law. Also, the Demwits of today support illegals because they want a large alave labor force, and the articles of secession alway referred to "property" (slaves), and the Cornerstone speech spelled out slavery as the primary reason for secession.
Well, except for that fleet of warships he sent to Charleston with orders to attack the Confederates around the fort. He did that first, and that's why the Confederates attacked. They didn't want to get hit by the guns of the ships at the same time they would be getting hit by the guns of the fort.
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