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Posted on 06/23/2025 12:30:23 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Everyone knows the story: Abraham Lincoln, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre in 1865. But what if that’s not the full truth? What if the real story was buried, and carefully kept hidden, for over a century? This reveal peels back the surface of one of America’s most defining tragedies to expose a deeper, darker reality. From missing documents to powerful conspirators, everything you've been told may be part of a much bigger lie. Watch closely, the truth of Abraham Lincoln's assassination finally revealed, and it's much worse than we thought.
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It wouldn’t surprise if the story wasn’t so straight forward.
click bait. Nothing new.
Headline: “Booth saves Lincoln!”
That actually could be a headline. John Wilkes Booth had an older brother (also an actor) that was on the same railway platform as Abraham’s son Robert Todd Lincoln during (or maybe just before?) the Civil War. Robert fell down between the train and the platform but was saved by the older Booth by the scruff of his coat collar just as he was about to disappear.
IIRC, the older Booth had already disavowed his brother for his sessionist views.
Thank you!
Hollyweirdo before Hollyweird was a thing.
Thanks. I never knew that. JW Boothe was a grade A. horse’s arse. Poor Robert Todd didn’t survive to adulthood, but this save was the Boothe family’s finest hour.
As an aside, Edwin Booth continued after the war as one of America’s leading actors. The public did not hold his brother’s actions against him. Of course, this was in the aftermath of the Civil War, which had torn many families apart.
Edwin lived long enough to be recorded. There is a wonderful CD that I found many years ago at the Folger Shakespeare Library in DC of early recordings of many of the now legendary Shakespearian actors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some of these go back to the earliest experiments with sound recording. What better subject to choose for such demonstrations of technology?
It is interesting to hear these legendary voices, but it is also a fascinating echo of the shifts in performance styles and audience expectations. The early recordings go back long before actors could wear hidden microphones, there was no amplification, and there were no cameras permitting closeups, dialogues in low tones and even whispers, and naturalism in delivery. Actors had to plant their feet firmly on stage, take a deep breath, project an unaided voice to the back row of the balcony, and eee-none-see-ate very clearly to be understood. Those recordings sound terribly stilted today. They were functional necessities at the time.
The Folger no longer has that CD available; I checked the last time I was there, fairly recently, and I sounded off about it. It is exactly the kind of thing that a top Shakespearian museum and research collection should offer. I’ve not checked to see if it’s still available elsewhere or in other formats.
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Robert Todd Lincoln lived to be almost 83, I would consider that to be adulthood. Republicans tried to get him to run for the presidency as late as 1912. He was present at the assassignstions of Garfield and McKinley. After that he repeatedly refused to meet with any president for fear that it would lead to an assassination.
Thanks for that info. What’s the recording from Othello? If you go on YouTube there is a recording of him from Othello.
Confused Robert Todd with Tad Lincoln. My bad.
This is no how you do a transcript. You need a proper formatted document with proper paragraphs so I can skim it and find the key points that might be new. Reading line by line the time-stamped transcript of a 26 minute video is as bad as listening to the video.
Just clickbait for more really bad presentation. I stopped when I started getting a history of the Civil War.
If it’s “really bad” just tell us what was so really bad.
Junius Brutus Booth Jr. was the premier Shakespearean actor of the mid-nineteenth century, acclaimed in Britain and the United States. Their father was British born, and a steadfast republican (anti-monarchist), hence Junius was named for a famous Roman republican. John Wilkes (John Wilkes, not John Wilkes Booth) had been a republican member of Parliament.
After their father died, their mother came to live with Junius in New York. John came to live with them, too, as his mother appreciated her youngest son’s company. John, who was pro-slavery and bitterly opposed to Lincoln would engage in tireless harangues about Lincoln, secession, and the war, which annoyed his more or less Republican brother, who supported Lincoln and emancipation. John was sort of like your liberal brother-in-law. He couldn’t change his mind and would not change the subject. Eventually, Junius threw him out.
Interestingly, the Booth brothers (Edwin was a prominent actor, too) only ever appeared once together on stage, one night, in a benefit performance of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, to fund a statue of Shakespeare in Central Park. Edwin played Brutus, John Wilkes played Mark (”Lend my your ears”) Anthony, and Junius played Cassius.
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A few years ago I saw a youtube video of a man who claimed to have witnessed the assassination of Lincoln. He was very old, and the interview was filmed in the 1950’s, iirc. One of those old b&w tv game shows, where a panel of guests tries to guess who he is or what’s special about him.
OK. So don’t read the transcript or listen to the video. I’m not getting paid for this, so stop telling me how to post things to be more pleasing to you. I don’t GAGS if you love it or hate it.
It was a conspiracy, with a deep state and everything. JW Boothe was the Lee Harvey Oswald of that time. OK?
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