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Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy, Like 9/11, Stirred Nation to Vengeance

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On further reading of the Sewards I found an incredible account of attempted assassination. Fanny Seward was an avid diarist and wrote a detailed account of that fateful night. She was in fact Seward's young daughter and 'she' wrote it in pencil, with crossings out, and began on the date but finished 3 weeks later. The account is unbelievable, it is truly gothic fiction and indicates a terrible, blatent forgery.
Here is an extract: 'Fred was out there with someone else..I hastened to the door and found Fred standing close by it, facing me. On his right hand, stood a very tall young man, in a light hat & long overcoat. I said "Fred , Father is awake now." Something in Fred's manner led me at once to think, that I had better not opened the door. I was glad to see father going to sleep again.. The man seemed impatient and addressing me in a tone that struck me at once as much more harsh and full of determination than such a simple question justified, asked "Is the Secretary asleep." I paused to look at my father. Then Fred drew the door shut. Very soon I heard the sound of blows- as many as half a dozen- sharp and heavy with lighter ones in between...I thought they were chasing a rat in the hall.but the blows continued.. I said to Robinson, who was sitting on the bed, "Do go and see." and started myself. .Robinson and I reached the door at the same time..'
The account further details at least ten people including her mother Frances and servants; her friend Anna; Fosburg; William Bell (servant pushed aside at the door); a Government messanger Hansell and Pvte. G. F. Robinson. All the men were attacked by Payne with a '44 revolver and a Bowie knife'. However the revolver misfired in the process of attacking Major Frederick Seward (acting Secretary of State) so Payne used it as a club; Seward's eldest son Augustus was also attacked; then fighting Fred and Robinson together; repeated stabbing of Robinson and of W.H. Seward in his bed; then on his way down the stairs he stabbed Hansell in the back. In the process no one except Fanny raised the alarm in the middle of Washington and Payne gets away on his waiting horse. Robinson then gives chase and Payne calls out 'I'm Mad , I'm mad' and escapes.
And 'every man had blood on his face', indeed, blood everywhere on windows, floors, stairs and entrys, the bed sheets cut to ribbons, blood on her dress and on her mother's dress.
Hardly the words of a shy, sensitive 21 year old loving girl who was to die only 18 months later, supposedly of TB or fever. Her mother also shy and retiring died only two months later was the daughter of Judge Elijah Miller, a Lawyer of Auburn NY who had left her a fortune.
Needless to say Stanton,General Halleck, Gideon Welles. the Surgeon General (Joseph Barnes) and several doctors named, all arrive by around 1 am. Yet Lincoln was still alive at Petersen House and did not die till 7.22 am by which time Stanton, Welles and Halleck and company got back to his death.

jack ronayne 8:44AM June 08, 2010

Edwin Stanton the Secretary of War was a part of a right wing plot to kill Lincoln. The Army and the NDP (under Colonel Lafeyette Curry Baker) arranged the killing of Lincoln. Honest Abe was shot from a range of 4 or 5 feet through a 3/16" spy-hole (about 4 feet high) in the state box door.
Major Rathbone, Colonel Stewart, Major Potter, Captain McGowan, Colonel Crawford and Captain Leale (Army Surgeon) and ex- Captain Thomas Raybold were all actively involved in the set up in the Ford Theatre that night.
Both Stanton and Baker(poisoned with Arsenic) died shortly afterwards and Rathbone eventually murdered Clara Harris who sat next to Mary Lincoln in the box. Rathbone went insane and was locked up for life in Germany. Many others connected were also killed or died under strange circumstances; eg the owner of the lodging house where Abe died...William Petersen committed suicide on the grounds of the Smithsonian Institute.
Now we know why Grant was aptly stood down at the theatre that night-they were grooming him for President, he was the people's favourite Republican hero.
Booth had already reneged on his plot to kidnap Lincoln because Samual Arnold sent him a letter telling him the authorities knew about it. Captain Gleason (a senior Prison Clerk)had been informed by his junior clerk Lewis Weichmann (a co- conspirator and a friend of John Surratt) in February, two months beforehand. So the War department had plenty of time for the set up in the Ford theatre.
Booth regularly picked up his mail there when staying in Washington at the National Hotel and meeting Lucy Hale (daughter of Senator Hale -the powerful Abolitionist). Indeed he had arranged and met with Lucy outside the theatre that same night at the intermission, just before Abe was shot.
The reward of 100,000 dollars was shared roughly 80/20 between the Army and the NDP.
The parallels with JFK are easy to explain when all covert actions are transformed by generations of myth and used as ploys to continually fool the public into believing any kind of story which flags up any remote coincidence. Some are natural but most are from stretched imaginations. When you now consider the only real coincidence is that both assassinations came from the enemy within-the right wing vested factions behind Government.
Secretary of State Seward was recovering from a carriage injury in Lafeyette Square.He was not involved in the plot but he and his family lived in fear after Stanton visited him at 1 am.. 3 hours after Abe was shot, according to the New York Times.
His wife Francis died a month later and his nurse Fanny the following year. No one had tried to kill Seward --it was a story generated by the Army nurse Private Robinson. 5 years later he was awarded the Gold Medal of Honour plus 5000 dollars.
During the whole of the Civil war only one other man got this medal..you got it.. Grant. Not only this two mountains are named after Robinson--one in Maine and one in Alaska.

Jack Ronayne 8:15PM April 12, 2010

This trial was outrageous...i think they all should've just been hung

tyler of DE 9:59AM March 30, 2010

dummmmiesssssssssss

jakwaka of MS 4:04AM May 16, 2009

A conspiracy is two or more people conspiring to act or work together toward the same result or goal. On April 15th Millions Americans were involved in
a Massive conspiracy to file their tax returns on time. Thats one conspiracy
that brings us Good Roads, Public Education, and other needed government
services. That's a conspiracy I agree with.
I think it strange to lump the Lincoln Assassination and 911 together.
There have been several polls over the years, and most Americans don't believe that 19 Saudi Arabian Hijackers who had only a few lessons on how to fly a plane, armed only with box cutters, High jacked Jet Planes and crashed them into the world trade center with military remote control precession.
During the 911 hijacking, they showed George Bush on TV reading the book "My Pet Goat" to preschool kids. In the video George Bush is shown holding the book upside down. Please don't tell me that George Bush can't read. Literacy is an important thing. George Bush said he invaded Iraq because thats where the "Hijackers"
were trained. Why didn't he invade Saudi Arabia? Surely it wasn't because of
all the Saudi Arabian money George W Bush had been given over the years to finance all of George W Bush's failed business ventures.
On Apr 26, 2005 George Bush and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah were shown holding hands strolling through spring flowers at George Bushes Crawford Texas ranch. Ah, so thats it, thats why he didn't invade Saudi Arabia. How romantic.
My local TV station showed a Video Clip of Barack Obama at a recent state ceremony jumping when he heard a 21 gun salute.
I thought it was creepy and mean spirited our local TV station which is Republican owned, would show such a thing. The dark message they were trying to convey was clear.
I find it strange allot of Republican Conservative writers are starting
to write about the Lincoln Assassination,trying to connect it with modern day.
Granted Tuesday was the 144th anniversary of Lincoln's assassination.
http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&hl=en&q=+Lincoln+Assassination
But during the George Bush years, there were very few articles about
the Lincoln Assassination in the main stream media.
The Conservative media subtext is clear, its hate full, and its Un-American.

Thomas L of VA 1:50AM April 17, 2009

Sorry to burst your bubble but it was a real coordinated conspiracy to kill the president and his cabinet in 1865. Its naive to suggest its an uncertain coincidence that Sec of State Seward was nearly killed almost simultaneously the same night Lincoln was shot. Vengeance was swift and fair based on conclusive information. This opinion sounds like more garbage from another yellow-livered revisionist Southern sympathizer.

Pablo of TN 10:15PM April 16, 2009