The Legend of John Wilkes Booth
by C. Wyatt Evans
A gay hero who saved the nation.
He got aids from Lincoln's splattered blood, according to the new crop of limp-wristed, queer historians.
I'm actually fairly closely related to Booth.
Never known what to make of that.
Booth was a wingnut actor who killed a Republican president.
When you consider all these Hollywood wingnuts these days, it seems nothing ever really ever changes...
That was a fascinating segment years ago on "Unsolved Mysteries". But anyway...
Stanton was behind the plot.
Booth had the password to cross a bridge (closed at sundown at that time) to leave DC.
Had Booth's instructions been followed, the VP and Sec State would have been murdered on the same night, putting Stanton in the White House.
Lincoln's sole bodyguard (provided by Stanton? I can't recall) left his post and went to the nearby tavern, where Booth was drinking. Booth got up and left after the bodyguard arrived.
The missing pages from Booth's diary reportedly emerged from an old box in the eaves of Stanton's old house, sometime in the 1980s.
Stanton knew who to look for and where to look, and most of the conspirators were quickly rounded up, given a military trial, and executed before they could talk.
Years later, Theodore Roosevelt arrived at the home of Lincoln's son for an evening bull (moose) session, and found him burning papers in the hearth. Lincoln told Roosevelt that they pertained to a member of his father's cabinet who had been behind the assassination. Roosevelt suggested that those could be of interest to historians. Lincoln didn't seem to be concerned.
:')
The Legend of John Wilkes Booth
by C. Wyatt Evans
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It couldn't have been Boston Corbett, he didn't have the balls.
By Colonel Mustard in the library with a candlestick holder
There is evidence to suggest that both Booth and Stanton were members of the Knights of the Golden Circle, or at least, strongly influenced by that organization. (See the book Shadow of the Sentinel. Booth is mentioned briefly, but the book is well worth reading).
