Yes John Surratt said they planned to kidnap. Lincoln was to attend a celebrity concert for the soldiers at Seventh Street hospital .They went to kidnap Lincoln in his carriage but Salmon Chase was there only, so they reneged. Idea was to capture Lincoln and force an exchange of prisoners who were dying in their thousands of maltreatment, hunger and disease. Did not.Lewis Weichman inform his boss Captain Gleason 6 weeks before 14th April in Feb.at the Capitol Prison where he worked as a clerk?
They were convicted before a military tribunal and denied their constitutional right to have a civil trial. The U. S. Supremee Court ruled a year later that they should not have been tried in a military tribunal. Her son John later returned to the United States, was tried in a civil court and found not guilty although he was certainly involved in the plot to kidnap Lincoln.
And this deponent further says, that the facts stated in the foregoing affidavit, so far as the same came to knowledge or notice of this deponent, are accurately stated therein.
Clara H. Harris
Subscribed and sworn before me, this 17th day of April, 1865.
..A moment later someone from the stage asked, “What is it?” or “What is the matter?” and deponent replied, “The President is shot. Very soon after, two persons, one wearing the uniform of a naval surgeon, and the other that of a soldier of the Veteran Reserve Corps, came upon the stage, and the deponent assisted them in climbing up to the box..
.she saw Major Rathbone spring from his seat and advance to the opposite side of the box;that she saw him engaged as if in a struggle, with another man,but the smoke which he was enveloped prevented this deponent from seeing distinctly the other man; that the first time she saw him distinctly was when he leaped from the box upon the stage; that she heard Major Rathbone cry out.”stop that man!” and this deponent then immediately repeated the cry“Stop that man Won’t somebody stop that man?” .
“Clara H. Harris, being duly sworn, says that she has read the foregoing affidavit of Major Rathbone, and knows the contents thereof; that she was present at Ford’s Theater with the President and Mrs.Lincoln, and Major Rathbone, on the evening of the 14th of April instant;that at the time she heard the discharge of the pistol she was attentively engaged in observing what was transpiring upon the stage,and looking round, ...
And it's true that she was sitting with her back to the spy-hole door and was not at all aware of the clear and present danger. But Rathbone was sitting further away on the sofa obliquely opposite and almost facing this door and well out of the firing line.
In the quest for further enlightenment on the subject of visibility we have Clara's statement made the same day.This back-up statement from Clara is just as mysterious however, because no doubt she had been in a state of shock and could not remember anything about the assassin, because of the smoke from the pistol..
...In review of the transaction, it is the confident belief that the time which elapsed between the discharge of the pistol and the time which elapsed between the discharge of the pistol and the time
when the assassin leaped from the box, did not exceed thirty seconds. Neither Mrs. Lincoln or
Miss Harris had left their seats.
H R Rathbone
Subscribed and sworn before me , this 17th day of April, 1865.
..On reaching the head of the stairs, deponent requested Major Potter to aid him in assisting Mrs. Lincoln across the street, to the house to which the President was being conveyed. The wound which had deponent had received was bleeding very profusely, and on reaching the house, feeling very faint from the loss of blood, he seated himself in the hall, and soon after fainted away, and was laid upon the floor.Upon the return of consciousness, deponent was taken in a carriage to his residence.
...Deponent then returned to the box , and found the surgeons examining the President’s person. They had not yet discovered the wound. As soon as it was discovered , it was determined to remove him from the theater. He was carried out, and the deponent then proceeded to assist Mrs. Lincoln, who was intensely excited, to leave the theater..
...It had been so securely fastened , that it required considerable force to remove it. The wedge or bar was about four feet from the floor . Persons upon the outside were beating against the door, for the purpose of entering. Deponent removed the bar, and the door was opened. Several persons, who represented themselves to be surgeons, were allowed to enter. Deponent saw there Colonel Crawford, and requested him to prevent other persons entering the box..
...Deponent then turned to the President; his position was not changed; his head was slightly bent forward, and his eyes were closed,. Deponent saw that he was unconscious , and supposing him mortally wounded , rushed to the door for the purpose of calling medical aid. On reaching the outer door of the passageway, as above described , deponent found it barred by a heavy piece of plank, one end of which was secured in the wall, and the other resting against the door..
..The orifice of the wound is about an inch and a half in length, and extends upward toward the shoulder several inches. The man rushed towards the front of the box, and deponent endeavoured to seize himagain, but only caught his clothes, as he was leaping over the railing of the box. The clothes as
deponent believes, were torn in this attempt to seize him. As he went over upon the stage, deponent
cried out, with a loud voice, “Stop that man!” ...
"At the same time, deponent heard him shout some word, which the deponent thinks was “Freedom!” This deponent instantly sprang toward him and seized him; he wrested himself from the grasp, and made aviolent thrust at the breast of deponent with a large knife. Deponent parried the blow by striking it up,and received a wound several inches deep in his left arm, between the elbow and the shoulder..
“The distance between the President, as he sat, & the door, was about four or five feet.The door, according to the recollection of this deponent, was not closed during the evening.When the second scene of the third act was being performed, & while this deponent was intently observing the proceedings upon the stage, with his back toward the door, he heard the discharge of a pistol behind him,& looking around saw, through the smoke, a man between the door and the President
The visibility of the assassin in terms of the usual description of any witness to a crime is surprisingly absent when we look at Major Rathbone's statement to Judge Olin. This given in the hope of us finding a real clue as to the assassin's identification. Alas all we find and the very best we can get is that it was a man. Not even possibly, a gentleman. Yet Rathbone fought hand to hand with this man.But at least we get another description of the knife- it was a large knife.
Withers said he heard something 'jump to the stage' and then saw the assassin run at him and slash him.Yet the 'assassin with an injured leg' still had time to escape the theatre.having achieved shooting Lincoln, fighting Rathbone in the box, jumping to the stage, turning to the audience crying 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' then running through the wings into Withers,carrying out further grevious bodily harm before finally exiting through the back door into Baptist Alley, past all people and army.
.."This deponent instantly sprang toward him and seized him; he wrested himself from the grasp, and made a violent thrust at the breast of deponent with a large knife. Deponent parried the blow by striking it up, and received a wound several inches deep in his left arm, between the elbow and the shoulder. The orifice of the wound is about an inch and a half in length and extends upward to the shoulder several inches".
Was it not true, 'as it happened' that Rathbone had also claimed a similiar event when he included in his statement on Easter Monday (18th April 1865) to Judge Olin of the Supreme Court: "At the same time, deponent heard him shout some word, which the deponent thinks was "Freedom !"...
But that Jake was sorry about it afterwards and wanted to change his statement according to Harry Clay Ford (younger brother of John Ford) and James Gifford the manager. Did not William Withers returning from backstage to the Orchestra from trying to pursuade Laura Keen to sing his number but she wouldn't;say that the assassin whom he recognised as Booth 'made a cut at him'.However in later years he claimed the man ran at him, knocked him down and slashed him in the neck causing a 6" wound?
Did not John F.Sleichman the Assistant Promts Man on stage that night say in court that he remembered seeing the 'assassin' hiding in the wings after crossing the stage? And did not Harry Hawk the lone actor on stage say in court, that it was he who said to Jake Ritterspaugh, the Assistant Stage Hand - 'Don't say which way he went'. But that Jake had insisted that it was Ed Spangler, the Stage Hand, that had made this remark after 'hitting him in the face'.
Should providence prove unfavourable or this excellent site for discussion and democratic expression should happen to close by chance; there are a number of other sites on this subject that you can follow. One of them is called 'The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln' by Barak Goodman under norfair18 which gives a vivid, historical and short documentary film featuring the Historians: E.Steers Jr, JL Swanson, T. Alford, Doris Goodwin and writer Gene Smith.
.. to a citizen of the United States, named Edward Clark, to procure from him, the said Clark, a statement in writing that said Pomeroy did not write a certain letter known as the "Ross letter," and WHEREAS, This statement was exhibited to the present members of the Legislature by the said Pomeroy and his friends to deceive them...
WHEREAS, This statement was exhibited to the present members of the Legislature by the said Pomeroy and his friends to deceive them...
Thus:WHEREAS, The sworn evidence is before the members of the Senate, that one of the citizens of the State of Kansas, S.C.Pomeroy, now a United States Senator, and again aspiring to that position, has with his own hands given a bribe of two thousand dollars in United States Currency here at the city of Topeka, January16, 1873...
And that Pomeroy had swindled many a land and railway deal.Were not Ross (Indian agent) and Clark found to be the innocent parties in this intended swindle?Clark concluded that the whole matter was a conspiracy of Pomeroy, Stewart,Stevens and Gaylord.And the Senate committee had effectively exposed Stewart & Co.in the process.
Was it not proven that Pomeroy had written this letter himself in relation to the swinding of 90,000 acres of Pottawatomies' Indian land and found"guilty of the crime of bribery, and attempting to corrupt by offers of money, members of the Legislature of the State of Kansas," And that as a result he lost his third campaign to be US Senator..
Is it not true that Stewart was a partner in a law firm of Attorney's with Stevens that had merged with Clark & Gaylord in Washington DC. in 1862 ? Did not Clark have to leave this firm later? Was not Stewart later in 1873 found to be suspect of perjury before the Kansas Senate in regards to the Ross/ Pommeroy case of possible forgery, swindle and corruption in the Clark letter affair .
Was not Colonel Joseph B Stewart dressed as a gentleman with a long dark frock coat and grey trousers as he ran across the stage immediately after the subdued shot rang out?Was he not a giant of a man 6ft 6ins tall of black hair & large black moustache?Was he not sitting in the Orchestra pit left stage just below the state box only a few feet from where the supposed assassin landed? Did he not run across the stage chasing the supposed assassin?See his drawing in the edition of Harper's magazine.
The hanging picture shows the man next to Adzerodt to be short and thin in stature dressed in a dark or Navy blue coat with a 'V' shaped collar and white shirt. This tallys with the 'unidentified prisoner' kept on the Saugus.with a 'V' braided collar and dark coat, white shirt, small, known as Boyd (see below Q11).This 'supposed Herold' known as the 'Dupe' surrended to Doherty leaving his friend to fight it out in the barn.The artist drawing is a near likeness but his beard had been shaven off.
Also it is said the Sec. of War Edwin McMasters Stanton was a 32 degree Scottish freemason. However later in its career the knife became 'a large Bowie knife' according to the official army report from Lt.Doherty, that was found in the possession of the man killed in Garrett's barn in Virginia. Indeed according to Trooper Millington of the same 16th NYCavalry and the local Herald newspaper the two men were Confederate Soldiers. And the man killed was of red or fair complexion with freckles.
The historian Terry Alford describes the knife as a 'large English made hunting knife'. It appears that this knife has changed its form many times and it gets larger. It was a small dirk according to first report got from an official source by the NY Times recorded at 11.16pm. This might indicate a kind of knife described in the Scottish vernacular possibly associated with the army witnesses' surnames -Col. Stewart, Cpt.McGowan, Col. Crawford and Cpt. Leale, or their presumable frames of mind.
Did not Stanton barricade himself in his office and had Lorenzo Thomas arrested before he replaced him? Did not Baker lie before a Senate committee implicating Stanton in fabricating the Red 1864 Diary? Did not Baker die soon after being demoted from Brigadier General and losing his job? Was it not suspected that his brother-in-law Wally Pollock of the War Dept. may have been involved in his death?Did not Grant appoint Stanton to the Supreme Court but he died Dec 24th 1869 before taking office?
Did not Johnson free all prisoners of war by 1869? Did he not also grant Dr.Mudd a full unconditional pardon after a petition was raised by 299 Union Soldiers with Lt. Zabriskie and 39 members of Senate and Congress; of Dr. Mudd's dedicated 'care and cure of the sick and interposed his courage and skill to protect the garrison' at the Dry Tortugas, infected with Yellow Fever. He also freed Spangler and Arnold but O'Laughlin had died.Why do the army still refuse to recognise this pardon today ?
Did not Col.Baker block the Superintendent of Capitol Prison,Col.Wood seeing President Johnson with evidence of Mary Surratt's innocence?Did not Stanton overturn or prevent officer's of the court access with a reprieve?Did not the court under Judge Holt vote in favour to recommend clemency with a prison sentence?Did not Johnson find out from Wood after, then sacked Stanton and Baker two years later.Was he not then impeached by the radicals who failed by one vote to get the 2/3 majority required?
My apologies, the last paragraph was directed to a response specifically given on another site I believe. My comments in this last passage therefore do not relate directly to this excellent series of photographs from rysungul. They do however relate to the subject matter in general in response to a reader who suggested that certain historians may have "glossed over" many of the details because in his words "History always go's to the winners."
Sir, So you think these historians may have "glossed over" a series of real facts (deduced by observation, logic & research), in order to preserve and protect their "His Story".Even this simple cameo is full of exaggerated and real errors eg Major Henry Rathbone they well know was not a Corporal but a very rich man having inherited his father's fortune and killed Clara, sentenced to a German Assylum, afflicted with paranoia.The terrible legacy of distorting the truth and inevitable criminality.
On looking at the honourable Silas T Cobb's gravestone he belonged to F Company 3rd Massachusetts HA Regt enlisted July 13, 1863.Why was he discharged?And why did he die 1867at only 29 ?In later years under President US Grant it is said he commissioned General Lewis Wallace the man who penned 'Ben Hur' and 'The Prince of India' to investgate all the un-timely deaths surrounding Lincoln's death.Wallace was also one of the presiding judges in the trial of the conspirators. .
Did not a third man try to cross giving the name of Fletcher saying he was following the man ahead (Smith) who had stolen a rented horse?But Cobb did not let him pass.Did not Lt.David Dana's 13th NY Cavalry also cross this Navy bridge, destination Bryantown 2 mls from Beantown,Dr.Mudd's home?But took a wrong turn at Piscataway arriving Bryantown -11am and camped for several days there; while the supposed assassins (alias the bearded Tyson with Henson) were being cared for by Dr.Mudd at 4am?
Is it not then conceivable that Cobb could not have known Lincoln had been shot without receiving a morse message?And no courier could get to the bridge before the supposed assassins because Baker said both teamed up outside the theatre and galloped immediately to this bridge.Is it not also true that the rules of the bridge were such that normally Cobb could allow citizens to pass outwards after 9pm but not to allow their return till the following day?Was not Cobb discharged 5 months later?
Was it not true that 'all military telegraph lines bar one to Old Point which transmitted to the outlying forts' were cut 15 mins after the assassin struck as conceded by Col.Baker in his book?And did not the supposed assassin give the name of Booth destination Beantown when challenged by Sergeant Silas Cobb (3rdMass HA) Navy bridge at11pm?Did he not allow another man called Smith to cross only minutes later also on horseback?Was Cobb not accused of dereliction of duty and died 1867 at 29?.
Was not 'Payne's visit with the bad medicine' arranged to coincide at exactly the same time as Lincoln was being shot, at 10.15 pm? How could such complex manouvres and timing be humanly possible, esp as Payne was supposed to be mad? Yet at his trial was proved to be sane after all? Did not Payne then 'fall from his horse on the Baltimore Turrnpike then walked back to Washington and disguised himself by plastering with mud, hiding for 3 days and picked up a pick to dig a ditch for Mary Surratt'.
Did not ' Payne feign delivering medicine ' by fooling William Bell who let a total stranger in because he had a package to deliver to Seward late at night, supposedly? Was there not at least 9 people in the house? Yet Payne had to find Seward on the 3rd floor guarded by
Robinson? And past Frederick and Major Gus Seward? Also past Hansell a Gov. agent? Also Anna, Francis and Adelle plus servants? Yet no one raised the alarm in the middle of Washington? And Payne escaped on his waiting horse?
Did not Seward's wife Francis die two months after Lincoln's death? Did not Private Robinson receive 5000 dollars plus the Congressional gold medal of honour for 'defending ' Seward and later became a Colonel? Are not two mountains named after him? One Sergeant Robinson (of Ohio)in Alaska and Robinson in Maine (his correct regiment of Maine and not of Ohio)? Only US Grant and America's richest man Vanderbilt got this medal during the whole civil war?
Did not someone arrange to kill Seward the week before Lincoln's death by a carriage accident? Was not Seward an anti-Mason? Did not his wife Francis die two monon and Welles that visited Sewaths after Lincoln? Did not his daughter Adelle die the following year at 22 yrs of age . Did they not forge the writing in Adelle's diary? Welles and Stanton visited Seward twice whilst Lincoln was dying?
Was not Edwin McMasters Stanton the Secretary of War , a high ranking Scottish Rites free- mason, running the war and would never exchange prisoners of war? Was not Lincoln (honest Abe) offering the South a fair deal but Stanton wanted total military control of the South ? Was it not the army that killed Lincoln under Stanton? And the Navy under Gideon Welles went along with it?
Lee had to surrender but the rest of us never will. 600k americans died because of lincoln and yankee agression. If he was assassinated earlier in the war it would have saved alot of lives.
Finally why is the third person on the right in the hanging (known only as Boyd according to Lt. Ruggles who first met him at the Rappahannock River and who surrendered to Lt. Doherty )the exact likeness of an 'unidentified prisoner' taken by Andrew Gardner on the Saugus, who had to shave his beard off for the public hanging?
Why is this man in the hanging picture totally different to David E. Herold in his face, size and dress?
Why did they man-handle him down a steep flight of theatre steps, through a crowd then by chance up an another set of steps into a lodging house?
Why did they not wait for a stretcher and ambulance to take him to the hospital only a few blocks away?
Why the rush to get him out of the theatre?
Why did someone clean the powder stains in the spy hole by gouging out a bevel afterward,freshly cut with a knife.This was recorded by Stanton & Gifford the very next day.
How is it probable that there were four Doctor's including Dr. King and a naval surgeon in the Theatre, and an army surgeon Captain Charles Leale, recently qualified in gun shot wounds at Bellevue Hospital NY.?
Why did they remove Lincoln from the theatre as soon as Leale had located the bullet with his finger, without knowing where to take him?
Why did the two army officers Cpt. McGowan and Col. Crawford sitting by the box do nothing?
Why was JF Parker,the official police body guard stood down?
Why was General Grant ordered not to be with Lincoln after being invited that very day?
Were they not grooming him to be the second Republican President and so it would be unsafe for him to be together with Lincoln in the theatre? Yet, all of Washington were waiting to see the most famous General in history?
Why did Rathbone give no real description of the assassin in his statement, yet he fought hand to hand with him?
Why was Rathbone a little uncertain of what the assassin cried out ?
Did he just 'think' the assassin cried out 'Freedom' before he fought and jumped?
Why did Dr. Charles Taft go on to the stage and ask Clara 'What is the matter' , after the assassin with a knife in hand shouting 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' ran past him? Then they lifted him into the box.
Why did Nelson Taft insert the line of the assassin catching his spur in the Union flag as an after thought, as if he had forgotten what his son had told him?
Didn't James Gifford say the shot came from outside the box through the spy-hole?
Did not Clara Harris fail to see the assassin at all because of the 'smoke' from the derringer until he jumped and disappeared over the box rail, according to her own statement?
Didn't Mary Lincoln instinctively look forward instead of backward at the sound of the shot, according to her own account, recorded in Horatio Nelson Taft's diary now to be seen on the Web?
Did she not see the assassin at all? Or did she just sense him brush her shawl?
Did she not think her husband was asleep until she felt the back of his head was wet?
Wasn't the knife first reported to be a small dirk according to the New York Times?
If the assassin shot Lincoln in the box then fought with Rathbone in front of 1900 people including army officers . How could he have then escaped the theatre?
@caban2007 but what if youre...not...with...anyone? whatever. i'm not getting in a youtube argument. i wish you the best, and i promise that's not sarcasm.
JOKE or not , if ur with a guy and ur talking dirty like that ur a CHEATER. all u hoes deserve to be cheated on talking like that. get some class if ur with a guy. and i doubt u were joking, but can u expect women are lost and say some sick azz stuff
those are the most ugly eyes ive ever seen, looks like a lizard, no chest , long hair like a girl , looks 15 - 17 year old. you really must be a pedophile to think that is " sexy " i pity your husband for being with such a dirty whore
These were of a very bad people and perhaps more than anything else they saught to kill The Pres.,Gen.Grant,Seward.It may very well be argued those other considerations however none were the equal to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
@Uncle65788 There was to be an attempt on the Vice President in Andrew Johnson but the traitor could not go through with the assassination.Dr.Mudd it seems did not miss the hangemens rope by much.The vote to hang Mudd is thought to be 4-5.4 for 5 against.Mary Suratts son John Suratt was gone long enough that there was never found any evidence to charge him with,perhaps at least to convict.He was to live the rest of his life as a free man.
@YaxKukMo1426 There was more than merely a smoking gun.Mary Surrats involvement became culpable when she transported weapons and other persons directly associated with the attempt upon the union.It perhaps might be suggested to be a stretch however when those guns were transported they were in fact placing the weapon in the hand of the would be assassin.With what might be a mere coincidence now in fact is a real deep involvelment in the desire to kill Gen.Grant,Secretary of State Seward,Pres.Lin
This is sick and utterly disgusting. Booth got his punishment and most of these people in the video did not deserve to die because it is a known fact it was booth who pulled the trigger. Was this before or after the civil war (or during)???? It seems to me he is executing confederate soldiers which is not right. I wish the south wouldve won and put Lincolns head on a pike
Booth thought by Killing the President for the people of the South he would be a hero but instead he was the most hated man but they wanted him ALIVE but of course one eager soldier took it upon himself to shoot him in the back so good riddons . The only person who should not have been convicted was Mary!!! My God this was the 1800's and they thought by charging her would bring her son out of hiding hahaha what a coward her son was to let his own mom die by hanging and the first women.
A pitiful cop named John Parker who was a member of the Metropolitan Police Force was perhaps in a bar downing shots as it were with some prostitute.He walked into the Police Station in the AM and attempted to have charges of prostitution brought against some women on that very night.He was the cop who was suppose to be the Presidents Body Guard.There was a short hallway,almost like a foyer that led directly to the Presidents Private viewing booth.He was suppose to be sitting in that foyerarea
The Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln was the first time that a President of the United States was Assassinated.There was as well a terrible ordeal that Secretary of State Seward and Family relatives including (I Believe his son:Frederick)were attacked by a knife wielding powell.Its a good thing his revolver failed.Powell,Herold and Booth should of been hanged for treason.Did either of the Surats know of such planning?She preceeded Booth with the rental of the boarding house.
it's sad that people don't realize that killing a killer is not doing anyone justice. and you're doing the crime they're being punished for. "we kill you because you killed someone".
@bebe4235 actually you are WRONG, these individuals were involved in a MURDER and specifically they MURDERED The President of the United States of America who was duly elected by the PEOPLE of The United States. this was an act of TREASON and they deserved to be EXECUTED!
@SocratesTheGadfly No...not really. These people were put to death out of rage and revenge. It was a time emotions overcame common sense. For example... the physician that treated John W Booth, Dr Mudd, did not know what Booth had done and even if he did... treating an injured man is not a crime...yet he was sent to prison for it.
@SocratesTheGadfly This was by a MILITARY COURT that's biased and unfair and after all is said and done a law was passed that no Civilian will be tried in a Military Court gee I wonder why!!!
@Ilovedthe70s76 The United States of America at the time was at war with the confederate states of america and those who MURDERED President Lincoln were acting on behalf of the confederate states of america and in accordance with international custom, treaties and precedents of that era a military court was the custom. the EXACT same precedent was used at the nuremburg trials after world war 2 to judge those guilty of war crimes by the nazi and japanese regimes of the 1940s
@SocratesTheGadfly Of course it was the EXACT same precedent the Nazi and Japanese were at war and were charged with War Crimes, Booth and his cronies were not soldiers they were sympathizers for the South who killed the President which is way they had the MILITARY COURT.
@Ilovedthe70s76 these individuals were TRAITORS and committed an act of TREASON with the MURDER of President Lincoln and in accordance with the ancient codes of LAW they received the JUSTICE that they so DESERVED.
@Ilovedthe70s76 as conspirators who were involved in the plot to MURDER President Lincoln during a time of war they would be classified as "enemy combatants" and as such Military Law was JUSTLY used and the execution of these TRAITORS was justified. they forfeited their rights when they MURDERED the President of The United States and they received the JUSTICE of the hang man's noose.
To me, the Lincoln assassination is fascinating. Maybe it's because I worked at the Navy Yard where a lot of it took place. Booth's ride from the Navy Yard. The hangings took place across from the bldg. where I worked. Surely Booth was smart enough to know he would be caught eventually. He was young, healthy, a great actor, smart (?) and 1 of the best looking men in America. He had ever thing going for him, It's a shame his life had to end like it did.
Fascinating how crisp and clear the pictures are and how many were taken. In fact there are so many I wonder if someone could fill in the "missing" frames and create an animation? Thanks for posting this.
My brother Markus Bott had been tortured during 5.5 years by the German BND,the former GESTAPO. I recorded more than 100 videotapes which ended up in the legal system. My brother was tortured during 1.5 years despite several legal procedures pending. He was assassinated on July 11th 2009 because of our homepage, linked on my channel, and our book Der Totalitäre Staat. If my homepage disappears,the BND will have assassinated me as well
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What they didn't tell you- Lincoln wasn't killed with a gun. The gun they have was a madeup story. What killed Loncoln was a blade. One that was refashioned in the form of a Dagger, but originally was a Spear. Before Booth died He gave Elizabeth Quesenberry a Gift. That Gift is buried 6ft down inside a wax sealed clay Jar, in the ground. There are 2 items in the Jar. His missing Diary and the Spear.
The spear is the real SPEAR OF DESTINY. This is why the vatican was involved.
@cwood4ever 7 years of research will not fit here. Just know I'm telling you the truth- it's no theroy.That clay Jar is buried in Ohio on private property and if it wasn't for the "Treasures Trove Act" I would prove it to everyone once and for all.
It's all about the Gift He/Booth gave to Elizabeth Quesenberry- my ancestor.
@downyourtube Well give me a readers digest of how Lincoln was really killed and I will go look it up on google or something, I'm interested in conspiracy theories, they are fun to read and research.
@cwood4ever Read all I've said on my channel and watch the videos. It will help you understand better. How about you help me- tell me how I can approach this clay jar without coming up short handed over it. I've thought of all the scenarios I can and no matter what I come up with- I get nothing- doesn't seem fair after all the work I've put into this. How do I get around the Treasures Trove Act, the Goverment and everyone else?
perhaps this is an inappropriate comment to leave (and i do not condone anything he did) but lewis powell was so damn sexy! Maaaaaan! I couldn't believe it when i saw those mugshots, fine as hell...
@caban2007 not easy just bein honest dude. conspirators don't come along like that every day. and i am definitely not the only person who thinks this.
@macroevolve Don't you know? She is Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt, the owner of the boarding house where the conspirators held meetings prior to assassination.
Yes I am serious....your only 21 and have been brian washed by the USA's teaching system that preaches that America is the birth of all the worlds problems.....you probably voted for Obama....how's that working out for you?
At that time,the world was still a "colonial" world. It was'nt ONLY the Ameriicans,UK, Spain, etc,etc.,were all holding colonies.It's funny how so many people want blame America for all the earths ills,people act like the Americans invented slaverly, etc,givemme break.
This nation WAS a pacifist nation as far as the rest of the world was concered. The American population did not want to enter WWI or WWII. Thats a fact! As far as the Indians and the Mexicans,they had to fight the idea of emminant domain,and they lost.
We dont speak French because we WON!! And BTW, WW1 WAS won by the Americans...
And there wasnt any legal reason (this was a pacifist, isolationest nation@the time) for the USA to enter the war until the Germans sunk that ship.....I would say...lucky for you that the Germans sunk our ship because you'd be speaking German today.....perhaps you already do....
@jessemy pacifist nation? tell that to the indians, mexicans, and anyone else that the Americans stole land from. you obviously don't know histioy or you'd realise that the germans didn't threaten the uk in ww1. Most of the 'americas' in european hands were french or spanish - it would only have been a matter of time before the french took the 13 colonies - thereby getting more access to the sea...think about it!
Ethnocentric ideology is the base of Jewish life. It is a compendium of Law and Lore. It is the legal code which forms the Basis of Jewish Religious Law, and it is the Textbook used in the training of Rabbis.
All executions in the United States should be filmed and made public. Why? So that people can make up their own minds with the facts before them of exactly what an execution entails. In this day and age, why are executions conducted in secret?
this video shows the bodily reaction of the soldier witnesses to this hanging. Though the condemned were extremely hated the soldiers slumped in grief at the forced passing of the criminals. This is honesty, involuntary humanism.
The loss of Lincoln was the absolute worse thing that could have happened for the South. He wanted to pour money into the South, so they could rebuild. He intended Reconstruction to actually rebuild the South. The Reconstruction the South got, was not the reconstruction we got. He wanted to rebuild the South the way we helped Germany and Japan after WW2. He didn't intend it to be a punishment. Or so I've read, and i believe it.
Felt kind of sorry for Dr. Mudd, he had worked on Booth's leg after he jumped from the balcony. He had no idea who he was working on, but he was a doc, so fix him up!
What you see at 0:43 onward is motion picture that shows they had the technology to film at a fast enough rate to simulate action as our eyes percieve it. This is like what we see today in movies. They've made it seem like motion picture was someting invented in around 1915. In fact, they were using it in 1865. There must be huge storage of political films and war films from 1865 and before that we aren't told about. Zionist Jews are using films to persecute innocent people and convict whitess.
I was right! They had motion picture in Lincoln's day. This video proves it. The cameraman was able to take photos fast enough to capture the action like they do today at 24 frames a second. The Zionist banker-controlled governments have hidden this technology from the public. It was hidden to mind-control the public, it's part of the brainwashing. They were slow to release the technology, waiting until they could use it against us. Zionists use black magic which are what their films are for.
Yes John Surratt said they planned to kidnap. Lincoln was to attend a celebrity concert for the soldiers at Seventh Street hospital .They went to kidnap Lincoln in his carriage but Salmon Chase was there only, so they reneged. Idea was to capture Lincoln and force an exchange of prisoners who were dying in their thousands of maltreatment, hunger and disease. Did not.Lewis Weichman inform his boss Captain Gleason 6 weeks before 14th April in Feb.at the Capitol Prison where he worked as a clerk?
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They were convicted before a military tribunal and denied their constitutional right to have a civil trial. The U. S. Supremee Court ruled a year later that they should not have been tried in a military tribunal. Her son John later returned to the United States, was tried in a civil court and found not guilty although he was certainly involved in the plot to kidnap Lincoln.
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Questions Fifty Eight
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And this deponent further says, that the facts stated in the foregoing affidavit, so far as the same came to knowledge or notice of this deponent, are accurately stated therein.
Clara H. Harris
Subscribed and sworn before me, this 17th day of April, 1865.
A. B. Olin.
Justice of Supreme Court, District of Columbia
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..A moment later someone from the stage asked, “What is it?” or “What is the matter?” and deponent replied, “The President is shot. Very soon after, two persons, one wearing the uniform of a naval surgeon, and the other that of a soldier of the Veteran Reserve Corps, came upon the stage, and the deponent assisted them in climbing up to the box..
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.she saw Major Rathbone spring from his seat and advance to the opposite side of the box;that she saw him engaged as if in a struggle, with another man,but the smoke which he was enveloped prevented this deponent from seeing distinctly the other man; that the first time she saw him distinctly was when he leaped from the box upon the stage; that she heard Major Rathbone cry out.”stop that man!” and this deponent then immediately repeated the cry“Stop that man Won’t somebody stop that man?” .
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District of Columbia, City of Washington, ss.:
“Clara H. Harris, being duly sworn, says that she has read the foregoing affidavit of Major Rathbone, and knows the contents thereof; that she was present at Ford’s Theater with the President and Mrs.Lincoln, and Major Rathbone, on the evening of the 14th of April instant;that at the time she heard the discharge of the pistol she was attentively engaged in observing what was transpiring upon the stage,and looking round, ...
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And it's true that she was sitting with her back to the spy-hole door and was not at all aware of the clear and present danger. But Rathbone was sitting further away on the sofa obliquely opposite and almost facing this door and well out of the firing line.
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In the quest for further enlightenment on the subject of visibility we have Clara's statement made the same day.This back-up statement from Clara is just as mysterious however, because no doubt she had been in a state of shock and could not remember anything about the assassin, because of the smoke from the pistol..
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Correction to para: Q39 second line should read: Easter Monday (17th April 1865).
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Questions Fifty Two
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...In review of the transaction, it is the confident belief that the time which elapsed between the discharge of the pistol and the time which elapsed between the discharge of the pistol and the time
when the assassin leaped from the box, did not exceed thirty seconds. Neither Mrs. Lincoln or
Miss Harris had left their seats.
H R Rathbone
Subscribed and sworn before me , this 17th day of April, 1865.
A B Olin
Justice of Supreme Court, District of Columbia."
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..On reaching the head of the stairs, deponent requested Major Potter to aid him in assisting Mrs. Lincoln across the street, to the house to which the President was being conveyed. The wound which had deponent had received was bleeding very profusely, and on reaching the house, feeling very faint from the loss of blood, he seated himself in the hall, and soon after fainted away, and was laid upon the floor.Upon the return of consciousness, deponent was taken in a carriage to his residence.
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...Deponent then returned to the box , and found the surgeons examining the President’s person. They had not yet discovered the wound. As soon as it was discovered , it was determined to remove him from the theater. He was carried out, and the deponent then proceeded to assist Mrs. Lincoln, who was intensely excited, to leave the theater..
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...It had been so securely fastened , that it required considerable force to remove it. The wedge or bar was about four feet from the floor . Persons upon the outside were beating against the door, for the purpose of entering. Deponent removed the bar, and the door was opened. Several persons, who represented themselves to be surgeons, were allowed to enter. Deponent saw there Colonel Crawford, and requested him to prevent other persons entering the box..
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...Deponent then turned to the President; his position was not changed; his head was slightly bent forward, and his eyes were closed,. Deponent saw that he was unconscious , and supposing him mortally wounded , rushed to the door for the purpose of calling medical aid. On reaching the outer door of the passageway, as above described , deponent found it barred by a heavy piece of plank, one end of which was secured in the wall, and the other resting against the door..
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..The orifice of the wound is about an inch and a half in length, and extends upward toward the shoulder several inches. The man rushed towards the front of the box, and deponent endeavoured to seize himagain, but only caught his clothes, as he was leaping over the railing of the box. The clothes as
deponent believes, were torn in this attempt to seize him. As he went over upon the stage, deponent
cried out, with a loud voice, “Stop that man!” ...
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"At the same time, deponent heard him shout some word, which the deponent thinks was “Freedom!” This deponent instantly sprang toward him and seized him; he wrested himself from the grasp, and made aviolent thrust at the breast of deponent with a large knife. Deponent parried the blow by striking it up,and received a wound several inches deep in his left arm, between the elbow and the shoulder..
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Rathbone Stated:
“The distance between the President, as he sat, & the door, was about four or five feet.The door, according to the recollection of this deponent, was not closed during the evening.When the second scene of the third act was being performed, & while this deponent was intently observing the proceedings upon the stage, with his back toward the door, he heard the discharge of a pistol behind him,& looking around saw, through the smoke, a man between the door and the President
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The visibility of the assassin in terms of the usual description of any witness to a crime is surprisingly absent when we look at Major Rathbone's statement to Judge Olin. This given in the hope of us finding a real clue as to the assassin's identification. Alas all we find and the very best we can get is that it was a man. Not even possibly, a gentleman. Yet Rathbone fought hand to hand with this man.But at least we get another description of the knife- it was a large knife.
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Yes Ladies and Gentlemen you've got it. The assassin was INVISIBLE.
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Withers said he heard something 'jump to the stage' and then saw the assassin run at him and slash him.Yet the 'assassin with an injured leg' still had time to escape the theatre.having achieved shooting Lincoln, fighting Rathbone in the box, jumping to the stage, turning to the audience crying 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' then running through the wings into Withers,carrying out further grevious bodily harm before finally exiting through the back door into Baptist Alley, past all people and army.
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.."This deponent instantly sprang toward him and seized him; he wrested himself from the grasp, and made a violent thrust at the breast of deponent with a large knife. Deponent parried the blow by striking it up, and received a wound several inches deep in his left arm, between the elbow and the shoulder. The orifice of the wound is about an inch and a half in length and extends upward to the shoulder several inches".
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Was it not true, 'as it happened' that Rathbone had also claimed a similiar event when he included in his statement on Easter Monday (18th April 1865) to Judge Olin of the Supreme Court: "At the same time, deponent heard him shout some word, which the deponent thinks was "Freedom !"...
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But that Jake was sorry about it afterwards and wanted to change his statement according to Harry Clay Ford (younger brother of John Ford) and James Gifford the manager. Did not William Withers returning from backstage to the Orchestra from trying to pursuade Laura Keen to sing his number but she wouldn't;say that the assassin whom he recognised as Booth 'made a cut at him'.However in later years he claimed the man ran at him, knocked him down and slashed him in the neck causing a 6" wound?
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Did not John F.Sleichman the Assistant Promts Man on stage that night say in court that he remembered seeing the 'assassin' hiding in the wings after crossing the stage? And did not Harry Hawk the lone actor on stage say in court, that it was he who said to Jake Ritterspaugh, the Assistant Stage Hand - 'Don't say which way he went'. But that Jake had insisted that it was Ed Spangler, the Stage Hand, that had made this remark after 'hitting him in the face'.
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Ladies and Gents:
Should providence prove unfavourable or this excellent site for discussion and democratic expression should happen to close by chance; there are a number of other sites on this subject that you can follow. One of them is called 'The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln' by Barak Goodman under norfair18 which gives a vivid, historical and short documentary film featuring the Historians: E.Steers Jr, JL Swanson, T. Alford, Doris Goodwin and writer Gene Smith.
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Questions Thirty Five
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.. to a citizen of the United States, named Edward Clark, to procure from him, the said Clark, a statement in writing that said Pomeroy did not write a certain letter known as the "Ross letter," and WHEREAS, This statement was exhibited to the present members of the Legislature by the said Pomeroy and his friends to deceive them...
WHEREAS, This statement was exhibited to the present members of the Legislature by the said Pomeroy and his friends to deceive them...
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Thus:WHEREAS, The sworn evidence is before the members of the Senate, that one of the citizens of the State of Kansas, S.C.Pomeroy, now a United States Senator, and again aspiring to that position, has with his own hands given a bribe of two thousand dollars in United States Currency here at the city of Topeka, January16, 1873...
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And that Pomeroy had swindled many a land and railway deal.Were not Ross (Indian agent) and Clark found to be the innocent parties in this intended swindle?Clark concluded that the whole matter was a conspiracy of Pomeroy, Stewart,Stevens and Gaylord.And the Senate committee had effectively exposed Stewart & Co.in the process.
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Was it not proven that Pomeroy had written this letter himself in relation to the swinding of 90,000 acres of Pottawatomies' Indian land and found"guilty of the crime of bribery, and attempting to corrupt by offers of money, members of the Legislature of the State of Kansas," And that as a result he lost his third campaign to be US Senator..
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Is it not true that Stewart was a partner in a law firm of Attorney's with Stevens that had merged with Clark & Gaylord in Washington DC. in 1862 ? Did not Clark have to leave this firm later? Was not Stewart later in 1873 found to be suspect of perjury before the Kansas Senate in regards to the Ross/ Pommeroy case of possible forgery, swindle and corruption in the Clark letter affair .
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Was not Colonel Joseph B Stewart dressed as a gentleman with a long dark frock coat and grey trousers as he ran across the stage immediately after the subdued shot rang out?Was he not a giant of a man 6ft 6ins tall of black hair & large black moustache?Was he not sitting in the Orchestra pit left stage just below the state box only a few feet from where the supposed assassin landed? Did he not run across the stage chasing the supposed assassin?See his drawing in the edition of Harper's magazine.
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Back then Lynching was a sport
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They were great days .. i remember them well
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Questions Twenty Nine
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The hanging picture shows the man next to Adzerodt to be short and thin in stature dressed in a dark or Navy blue coat with a 'V' shaped collar and white shirt. This tallys with the 'unidentified prisoner' kept on the Saugus.with a 'V' braided collar and dark coat, white shirt, small, known as Boyd (see below Q11).This 'supposed Herold' known as the 'Dupe' surrended to Doherty leaving his friend to fight it out in the barn.The artist drawing is a near likeness but his beard had been shaven off.
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Also it is said the Sec. of War Edwin McMasters Stanton was a 32 degree Scottish freemason. However later in its career the knife became 'a large Bowie knife' according to the official army report from Lt.Doherty, that was found in the possession of the man killed in Garrett's barn in Virginia. Indeed according to Trooper Millington of the same 16th NYCavalry and the local Herald newspaper the two men were Confederate Soldiers. And the man killed was of red or fair complexion with freckles.
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The historian Terry Alford describes the knife as a 'large English made hunting knife'. It appears that this knife has changed its form many times and it gets larger. It was a small dirk according to first report got from an official source by the NY Times recorded at 11.16pm. This might indicate a kind of knife described in the Scottish vernacular possibly associated with the army witnesses' surnames -Col. Stewart, Cpt.McGowan, Col. Crawford and Cpt. Leale, or their presumable frames of mind.
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Did not Stanton barricade himself in his office and had Lorenzo Thomas arrested before he replaced him? Did not Baker lie before a Senate committee implicating Stanton in fabricating the Red 1864 Diary? Did not Baker die soon after being demoted from Brigadier General and losing his job? Was it not suspected that his brother-in-law Wally Pollock of the War Dept. may have been involved in his death?Did not Grant appoint Stanton to the Supreme Court but he died Dec 24th 1869 before taking office?
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Did not Johnson free all prisoners of war by 1869? Did he not also grant Dr.Mudd a full unconditional pardon after a petition was raised by 299 Union Soldiers with Lt. Zabriskie and 39 members of Senate and Congress; of Dr. Mudd's dedicated 'care and cure of the sick and interposed his courage and skill to protect the garrison' at the Dry Tortugas, infected with Yellow Fever. He also freed Spangler and Arnold but O'Laughlin had died.Why do the army still refuse to recognise this pardon today ?
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Did not Col.Baker block the Superintendent of Capitol Prison,Col.Wood seeing President Johnson with evidence of Mary Surratt's innocence?Did not Stanton overturn or prevent officer's of the court access with a reprieve?Did not the court under Judge Holt vote in favour to recommend clemency with a prison sentence?Did not Johnson find out from Wood after, then sacked Stanton and Baker two years later.Was he not then impeached by the radicals who failed by one vote to get the 2/3 majority required?
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Sir or Madam,
My apologies, the last paragraph was directed to a response specifically given on another site I believe. My comments in this last passage therefore do not relate directly to this excellent series of photographs from rysungul. They do however relate to the subject matter in general in response to a reader who suggested that certain historians may have "glossed over" many of the details because in his words "History always go's to the winners."
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Sir, So you think these historians may have "glossed over" a series of real facts (deduced by observation, logic & research), in order to preserve and protect their "His Story".Even this simple cameo is full of exaggerated and real errors eg Major Henry Rathbone they well know was not a Corporal but a very rich man having inherited his father's fortune and killed Clara, sentenced to a German Assylum, afflicted with paranoia.The terrible legacy of distorting the truth and inevitable criminality.
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Ladies and Gents
On looking at the honourable Silas T Cobb's gravestone he belonged to F Company 3rd Massachusetts HA Regt enlisted July 13, 1863.Why was he discharged?And why did he die 1867at only 29 ?In later years under President US Grant it is said he commissioned General Lewis Wallace the man who penned 'Ben Hur' and 'The Prince of India' to investgate all the un-timely deaths surrounding Lincoln's death.Wallace was also one of the presiding judges in the trial of the conspirators. .
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Did not a third man try to cross giving the name of Fletcher saying he was following the man ahead (Smith) who had stolen a rented horse?But Cobb did not let him pass.Did not Lt.David Dana's 13th NY Cavalry also cross this Navy bridge, destination Bryantown 2 mls from Beantown,Dr.Mudd's home?But took a wrong turn at Piscataway arriving Bryantown -11am and camped for several days there; while the supposed assassins (alias the bearded Tyson with Henson) were being cared for by Dr.Mudd at 4am?
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Is it not then conceivable that Cobb could not have known Lincoln had been shot without receiving a morse message?And no courier could get to the bridge before the supposed assassins because Baker said both teamed up outside the theatre and galloped immediately to this bridge.Is it not also true that the rules of the bridge were such that normally Cobb could allow citizens to pass outwards after 9pm but not to allow their return till the following day?Was not Cobb discharged 5 months later?
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Was it not true that 'all military telegraph lines bar one to Old Point which transmitted to the outlying forts' were cut 15 mins after the assassin struck as conceded by Col.Baker in his book?And did not the supposed assassin give the name of Booth destination Beantown when challenged by Sergeant Silas Cobb (3rdMass HA) Navy bridge at11pm?Did he not allow another man called Smith to cross only minutes later also on horseback?Was Cobb not accused of dereliction of duty and died 1867 at 29?.
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Was not 'Payne's visit with the bad medicine' arranged to coincide at exactly the same time as Lincoln was being shot, at 10.15 pm? How could such complex manouvres and timing be humanly possible, esp as Payne was supposed to be mad? Yet at his trial was proved to be sane after all? Did not Payne then 'fall from his horse on the Baltimore Turrnpike then walked back to Washington and disguised himself by plastering with mud, hiding for 3 days and picked up a pick to dig a ditch for Mary Surratt'.
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Did not ' Payne feign delivering medicine ' by fooling William Bell who let a total stranger in because he had a package to deliver to Seward late at night, supposedly? Was there not at least 9 people in the house? Yet Payne had to find Seward on the 3rd floor guarded by
Robinson? And past Frederick and Major Gus Seward? Also past Hansell a Gov. agent? Also Anna, Francis and Adelle plus servants? Yet no one raised the alarm in the middle of Washington? And Payne escaped on his waiting horse?
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Did not Seward's wife Francis die two months after Lincoln's death? Did not Private Robinson receive 5000 dollars plus the Congressional gold medal of honour for 'defending ' Seward and later became a Colonel? Are not two mountains named after him? One Sergeant Robinson (of Ohio)in Alaska and Robinson in Maine (his correct regiment of Maine and not of Ohio)? Only US Grant and America's richest man Vanderbilt got this medal during the whole civil war?
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Did not someone arrange to kill Seward the week before Lincoln's death by a carriage accident? Was not Seward an anti-Mason? Did not his wife Francis die two monon and Welles that visited Sewaths after Lincoln? Did not his daughter Adelle die the following year at 22 yrs of age . Did they not forge the writing in Adelle's diary? Welles and Stanton visited Seward twice whilst Lincoln was dying?
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Did
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Was not Edwin McMasters Stanton the Secretary of War , a high ranking Scottish Rites free- mason, running the war and would never exchange prisoners of war? Was not Lincoln (honest Abe) offering the South a fair deal but Stanton wanted total military control of the South ? Was it not the army that killed Lincoln under Stanton? And the Navy under Gideon Welles went along with it?
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Lee had to surrender but the rest of us never will. 600k americans died because of lincoln and yankee agression. If he was assassinated earlier in the war it would have saved alot of lives.
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It was very Hot that day.
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Gentlemen,
Questions Twelfth:
Wasn't Herold the son of a Union Naval officer who had worked in the navy Yard?
Was he not also known as the 'Dupe' by Colonel L.C. Baker the head of the NDP, in his book 'The United States Secret Service'?
If you can answer even half of these questions gentlemen there are 10 more for each of these you answer and for the sake of providence.
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Gentlemen,
Questions Eleventh:
Finally why is the third person on the right in the hanging (known only as Boyd according to Lt. Ruggles who first met him at the Rappahannock River and who surrendered to Lt. Doherty )the exact likeness of an 'unidentified prisoner' taken by Andrew Gardner on the Saugus, who had to shave his beard off for the public hanging?
Why is this man in the hanging picture totally different to David E. Herold in his face, size and dress?
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Gentlemen
Questions Tenth:
Why did they man-handle him down a steep flight of theatre steps, through a crowd then by chance up an another set of steps into a lodging house?
Why did they not wait for a stretcher and ambulance to take him to the hospital only a few blocks away?
Why the rush to get him out of the theatre?
Why did someone clean the powder stains in the spy hole by gouging out a bevel afterward,freshly cut with a knife.This was recorded by Stanton & Gifford the very next day.
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Gentlemen,
Questions Ninth:
How is it probable that there were four Doctor's including Dr. King and a naval surgeon in the Theatre, and an army surgeon Captain Charles Leale, recently qualified in gun shot wounds at Bellevue Hospital NY.?
Why did they remove Lincoln from the theatre as soon as Leale had located the bullet with his finger, without knowing where to take him?
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Gentlemen,
Questions Eighth:
Why did the two army officers Cpt. McGowan and Col. Crawford sitting by the box do nothing?
Why was JF Parker,the official police body guard stood down?
Why was General Grant ordered not to be with Lincoln after being invited that very day?
Were they not grooming him to be the second Republican President and so it would be unsafe for him to be together with Lincoln in the theatre? Yet, all of Washington were waiting to see the most famous General in history?
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Gentlemen,
Questions Seventh:
Was it not true that Taft and Colonel Joseph Stewart were sitting together in the Orchestra pit.
And did not Stewart run across the stage immediately after the shot rang out according to himself and Ed Spangler?
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Gentlemen,
Questions Sixth:
Why did Rathbone give no real description of the assassin in his statement, yet he fought hand to hand with him?
Why was Rathbone a little uncertain of what the assassin cried out ?
Did he just 'think' the assassin cried out 'Freedom' before he fought and jumped?
Why did Dr. Charles Taft go on to the stage and ask Clara 'What is the matter' , after the assassin with a knife in hand shouting 'Sic Semper Tyrranis' ran past him? Then they lifted him into the box.
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Questions Fifth:
Why did Nelson Taft insert the line of the assassin catching his spur in the Union flag as an after thought, as if he had forgotten what his son had told him?
Didn't James Gifford say the shot came from outside the box through the spy-hole?
Did not Clara Harris fail to see the assassin at all because of the 'smoke' from the derringer until he jumped and disappeared over the box rail, according to her own statement?
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Gentlemen,
Questions Fourth:
Didn't Mary Lincoln instinctively look forward instead of backward at the sound of the shot, according to her own account, recorded in Horatio Nelson Taft's diary now to be seen on the Web?
Did she not see the assassin at all? Or did she just sense him brush her shawl?
Did she not think her husband was asleep until she felt the back of his head was wet?
Only then did she scream out?
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Gentlemen,
Questions Third:
Wasn't the knife first reported to be a small dirk according to the New York Times?
If the assassin shot Lincoln in the box then fought with Rathbone in front of 1900 people including army officers . How could he have then escaped the theatre?
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Questions Second:
Was it not Thomas Raybold the assistant manager who drilled the hole and bust the lock on the second door, No 8, according to his own statement?
Was not the spy hole in the first (locked) door No. 7 in exact line and only three or four feet behind Lincoln's back and at a level of four feet ?
Who placed Lincoln's Chair? Wasn't it Thomas Raybold , according to his own statement?
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Gentlemen,
Questions First:
What was the army rank of Henry Rathbone? A Major or a Corporal as stated in the film?
Did he not murder his wife Clara years later?
Didn't Rathbone say it was a length of plank he removed from the South Circle door?
Who drilled the spy hole?
Didn't Harry Ford swear under oath that he was unaware of the spy-hole?
jackthegiki 1 month ago
I'm British. Therefore, support the confederacy like we do! =D
RacBaw 1 month ago
CONFEDERATE HEROES
MrHEILDEMFUHRER1 1 month ago
Fuck the government, wherever you may be.
If we all stood up and said no to them, what the fuck could they do?
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..I think the sequence of photos indicates what they could do.
k6whp 2 weeks ago
@MilitaryArcade That's exactly what i thought until i uttered the phrase ''You and whose army?''.
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THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN !
"Ye shall UNDERSTAND the truth
& the truth shall set ye free" !
LONG LIVE THE SOUTH !
Sic semper tyrannis:
DEATH TO ALL TYRANTS !
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THERE ARE ACTUALLY TWO VERSIONS
OF PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN:
THE "GOOD" PRESIDENT LINCOLN
& THE REAL PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
"WHEN YOU KNOW THE REAL TRUTH, ABOUT
THE EVILS OF A MAN, ESPECIALLY IF HE WAS
A POLITICIAN: YOU WILL NOT SHED A TEAR
FOR HIM, BUT THINK: "GOOD RIDDENS !"
JOHNNYFREEDOMdaREBEL 2 months ago
so they were executed for saying that the execution of Lincoln "an inside job" if you will ?
JustSomeGuyOk 2 months ago 3
HEROES.....
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DIXIECONFEDERATEDAWG 2 months ago
Somewhere in the crowd of observers is George Armstrong Custer. Interesting witness.
VValkyrie 2 months ago
EVERYTHING IS YOUR CHOICE , i hope my gf aint nasty like u
caban2007 3 months ago
@caban2007 but what if youre...not...with...anyone? whatever. i'm not getting in a youtube argument. i wish you the best, and i promise that's not sarcasm.
supercurrant 3 months ago
its cool i just thought it was creepy about the the "fine as hell " lol
caban2007 3 months ago
JOKE or not , if ur with a guy and ur talking dirty like that ur a CHEATER. all u hoes deserve to be cheated on talking like that. get some class if ur with a guy. and i doubt u were joking, but can u expect women are lost and say some sick azz stuff
caban2007 3 months ago
those are the most ugly eyes ive ever seen, looks like a lizard, no chest , long hair like a girl , looks 15 - 17 year old. you really must be a pedophile to think that is " sexy " i pity your husband for being with such a dirty whore
caban2007 3 months ago in playlist Abraham Lincoln
@caban2007 are you....talking about me...? why? that was unnecessary. i was just joking around! jeez!
supercurrant 3 months ago
These were of a very bad people and perhaps more than anything else they saught to kill The Pres.,Gen.Grant,Seward.It may very well be argued those other considerations however none were the equal to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Uncle65788 3 months ago
@Uncle65788 There was to be an attempt on the Vice President in Andrew Johnson but the traitor could not go through with the assassination.Dr.Mudd it seems did not miss the hangemens rope by much.The vote to hang Mudd is thought to be 4-5.4 for 5 against.Mary Suratts son John Suratt was gone long enough that there was never found any evidence to charge him with,perhaps at least to convict.He was to live the rest of his life as a free man.
Uncle65788 3 months ago
If Mary Surratt deserved to die then so did Jeff Davis and Robert Lee (but even more so)
YaxKukMo1426 3 months ago
@YaxKukMo1426 There was more than merely a smoking gun.Mary Surrats involvement became culpable when she transported weapons and other persons directly associated with the attempt upon the union.It perhaps might be suggested to be a stretch however when those guns were transported they were in fact placing the weapon in the hand of the would be assassin.With what might be a mere coincidence now in fact is a real deep involvelment in the desire to kill Gen.Grant,Secretary of State Seward,Pres.Lin
Uncle65788 3 months ago
This is sick and utterly disgusting. Booth got his punishment and most of these people in the video did not deserve to die because it is a known fact it was booth who pulled the trigger. Was this before or after the civil war (or during)???? It seems to me he is executing confederate soldiers which is not right. I wish the south wouldve won and put Lincolns head on a pike
missbelle1976 3 months ago
stanton and johnson murdered mary surratt they should have been beheaded
gerjerry99 3 months ago
Booth thought by Killing the President for the people of the South he would be a hero but instead he was the most hated man but they wanted him ALIVE but of course one eager soldier took it upon himself to shoot him in the back so good riddons . The only person who should not have been convicted was Mary!!! My God this was the 1800's and they thought by charging her would bring her son out of hiding hahaha what a coward her son was to let his own mom die by hanging and the first women.
Ilovedthe70s76 3 months ago
A pitiful cop named John Parker who was a member of the Metropolitan Police Force was perhaps in a bar downing shots as it were with some prostitute.He walked into the Police Station in the AM and attempted to have charges of prostitution brought against some women on that very night.He was the cop who was suppose to be the Presidents Body Guard.There was a short hallway,almost like a foyer that led directly to the Presidents Private viewing booth.He was suppose to be sitting in that foyerarea
Uncle65788 3 months ago
The Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln was the first time that a President of the United States was Assassinated.There was as well a terrible ordeal that Secretary of State Seward and Family relatives including (I Believe his son:Frederick)were attacked by a knife wielding powell.Its a good thing his revolver failed.Powell,Herold and Booth should of been hanged for treason.Did either of the Surats know of such planning?She preceeded Booth with the rental of the boarding house.
Uncle65788 3 months ago
it's sad that people don't realize that killing a killer is not doing anyone justice. and you're doing the crime they're being punished for. "we kill you because you killed someone".
bebe4235 3 months ago
@bebe4235 actually you are WRONG, these individuals were involved in a MURDER and specifically they MURDERED The President of the United States of America who was duly elected by the PEOPLE of The United States. this was an act of TREASON and they deserved to be EXECUTED!
SocratesTheGadfly 3 months ago
@SocratesTheGadfly No...not really. These people were put to death out of rage and revenge. It was a time emotions overcame common sense. For example... the physician that treated John W Booth, Dr Mudd, did not know what Booth had done and even if he did... treating an injured man is not a crime...yet he was sent to prison for it.
label1877 3 months ago
@SocratesTheGadfly thats correct!
Uncle65788 3 months ago
@SocratesTheGadfly This was by a MILITARY COURT that's biased and unfair and after all is said and done a law was passed that no Civilian will be tried in a Military Court gee I wonder why!!!
Ilovedthe70s76 3 months ago
@Ilovedthe70s76 The United States of America at the time was at war with the confederate states of america and those who MURDERED President Lincoln were acting on behalf of the confederate states of america and in accordance with international custom, treaties and precedents of that era a military court was the custom. the EXACT same precedent was used at the nuremburg trials after world war 2 to judge those guilty of war crimes by the nazi and japanese regimes of the 1940s
SocratesTheGadfly 3 months ago
@SocratesTheGadfly Of course it was the EXACT same precedent the Nazi and Japanese were at war and were charged with War Crimes, Booth and his cronies were not soldiers they were sympathizers for the South who killed the President which is way they had the MILITARY COURT.
Ilovedthe70s76 3 months ago
@Ilovedthe70s76 these individuals were TRAITORS and committed an act of TREASON with the MURDER of President Lincoln and in accordance with the ancient codes of LAW they received the JUSTICE that they so DESERVED.
SocratesTheGadfly 3 months ago
@SocratesTheGadfly Yes but the only person who wasn't a traitor was Mary Surratt
Ilovedthe70s76 3 months ago
@SocratesTheGadfly They still shouldn't have been tried in a Military Court they were not in the Military they were Civilians
Ilovedthe70s76 3 months ago
@Ilovedthe70s76 as conspirators who were involved in the plot to MURDER President Lincoln during a time of war they would be classified as "enemy combatants" and as such Military Law was JUSTLY used and the execution of these TRAITORS was justified. they forfeited their rights when they MURDERED the President of The United States and they received the JUSTICE of the hang man's noose.
SocratesTheGadfly 3 months ago
mary surratt should never have been on the gallows
gerjerry99 3 months ago
To me, the Lincoln assassination is fascinating. Maybe it's because I worked at the Navy Yard where a lot of it took place. Booth's ride from the Navy Yard. The hangings took place across from the bldg. where I worked. Surely Booth was smart enough to know he would be caught eventually. He was young, healthy, a great actor, smart (?) and 1 of the best looking men in America. He had ever thing going for him, It's a shame his life had to end like it did.
kentuckybabe4438 3 months ago
Very well done .Thanks for sharing
lazydayhohum 4 months ago
@downyourtube and why would it matter and need to be hidden if a knife was used instead of a gun? Why would that fact need to be hidden???
hawkman350 4 months ago
Fascinating how crisp and clear the pictures are and how many were taken. In fact there are so many I wonder if someone could fill in the "missing" frames and create an animation? Thanks for posting this.
twobluehorses 4 months ago
aint that a cunt
hardman476 4 months ago
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wwwtotalitaerde 4 months ago
its a crying shame they dont hang assholes these days,it would only do good for the whole world.
barnfres60 4 months ago
Can we PLEASE stop with the arguments! >:(
Swampertchamp 4 months ago
@Swampertchamp Boothe and all the conspirators were Roman Catholics under orders from the Jesuits.
bornbythesea 3 months ago
jessemy your comments are well said. thank you..
superstar7340 4 months ago
What they didn't tell you- Lincoln wasn't killed with a gun. The gun they have was a madeup story. What killed Loncoln was a blade. One that was refashioned in the form of a Dagger, but originally was a Spear. Before Booth died He gave Elizabeth Quesenberry a Gift. That Gift is buried 6ft down inside a wax sealed clay Jar, in the ground. There are 2 items in the Jar. His missing Diary and the Spear.
The spear is the real SPEAR OF DESTINY. This is why the vatican was involved.
downyourtube 5 months ago
@downyourtube wtf
cwood4ever 4 months ago
@cwood4ever This is why they tore up Ford Theater, they were looking for it.
downyourtube 4 months ago
@downyourtube no no explain your theory please..from the start
cwood4ever 4 months ago
@cwood4ever 7 years of research will not fit here. Just know I'm telling you the truth- it's no theroy.That clay Jar is buried in Ohio on private property and if it wasn't for the "Treasures Trove Act" I would prove it to everyone once and for all.
It's all about the Gift He/Booth gave to Elizabeth Quesenberry- my ancestor.
downyourtube 4 months ago
@downyourtube Well give me a readers digest of how Lincoln was really killed and I will go look it up on google or something, I'm interested in conspiracy theories, they are fun to read and research.
cwood4ever 4 months ago
@cwood4ever Read all I've said on my channel and watch the videos. It will help you understand better. How about you help me- tell me how I can approach this clay jar without coming up short handed over it. I've thought of all the scenarios I can and no matter what I come up with- I get nothing- doesn't seem fair after all the work I've put into this. How do I get around the Treasures Trove Act, the Goverment and everyone else?
downyourtube 4 months ago
@downyourtube I cant find anything on this jar...
Imachowderhead 4 months ago
@downyourtube I cant find anything on this jar...
Imachowderhead 4 months ago
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@downyourtube I cant find anything on this jar...
Imachowderhead 4 months ago
perhaps this is an inappropriate comment to leave (and i do not condone anything he did) but lewis powell was so damn sexy! Maaaaaan! I couldn't believe it when i saw those mugshots, fine as hell...
supercurrant 5 months ago 2
@supercurrant woow, your attracted to some 200 year old guy lol, shows how easy girls are heh
caban2007 3 months ago
@caban2007 not easy just bein honest dude. conspirators don't come along like that every day. and i am definitely not the only person who thinks this.
supercurrant 3 months ago
@supercurrant you are so right he is really hot hahha
xoxokatynxoxox 3 months ago
Is the one on the far left a woman?
macroevolve 5 months ago
@macroevolve Don't you know? She is Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt, the owner of the boarding house where the conspirators held meetings prior to assassination.
orientlover1 5 months ago
@macroevolve Yes. Mary Surratt.
fishhead06 4 months ago
DUDE OBAMA IS NOT THE PROBLEM TO ALL OF THIS , WTF!??!..
JGA1980 5 months ago
Yes I am serious....your only 21 and have been brian washed by the USA's teaching system that preaches that America is the birth of all the worlds problems.....you probably voted for Obama....how's that working out for you?
jessemy 5 months ago
At that time,the world was still a "colonial" world. It was'nt ONLY the Ameriicans,UK, Spain, etc,etc.,were all holding colonies.It's funny how so many people want blame America for all the earths ills,people act like the Americans invented slaverly, etc,givemme break.
jessemy 5 months ago
This nation WAS a pacifist nation as far as the rest of the world was concered. The American population did not want to enter WWI or WWII. Thats a fact! As far as the Indians and the Mexicans,they had to fight the idea of emminant domain,and they lost.
jessemy 5 months ago
That was pretty neat.
LeeB9999 5 months ago
We dont speak French because we WON!! And BTW, WW1 WAS won by the Americans...
And there wasnt any legal reason (this was a pacifist, isolationest nation@the time) for the USA to enter the war until the Germans sunk that ship.....I would say...lucky for you that the Germans sunk our ship because you'd be speaking German today.....perhaps you already do....
jessemy 5 months ago
@jessemy you're joking right.
hitmankgm 5 months ago
@jessemy pacifist nation? tell that to the indians, mexicans, and anyone else that the Americans stole land from. you obviously don't know histioy or you'd realise that the germans didn't threaten the uk in ww1. Most of the 'americas' in european hands were french or spanish - it would only have been a matter of time before the french took the 13 colonies - thereby getting more access to the sea...think about it!
beatlesandbeyond 5 months ago
Ethnocentric ideology is the base of Jewish life. It is a compendium of Law and Lore. It is the legal code which forms the Basis of Jewish Religious Law, and it is the Textbook used in the training of Rabbis.
4IcyHot 5 months ago
I wonder what's less painful, death by hanging or by decapitation?
TucoRamirez2 5 months ago
This is a fascinating reconstruction. Considering the early photographic technology used here the images are quite clear.
geoffolehane 5 months ago
All executions in the United States should be filmed and made public. Why? So that people can make up their own minds with the facts before them of exactly what an execution entails. In this day and age, why are executions conducted in secret?
Metals999 5 months ago
can somebody replywhy these people were executed and what is a conspirater
xXDarkWolfXx961 5 months ago
@xXDarkWolfXx961 how about you get an education?
o0matthowarth0o 5 months ago
@o0matthowarth0o fuck you asshole
xXDarkWolfXx961 5 months ago
@xXDarkWolfXx961 yes, stop being so lazy and go and read a book on history
THthefirst 5 months ago
@xXDarkWolfXx961
They where executed 4 the lols.
And conspirater is an old term for a sauna,
reepityou 5 months ago
this video shows the bodily reaction of the soldier witnesses to this hanging. Though the condemned were extremely hated the soldiers slumped in grief at the forced passing of the criminals. This is honesty, involuntary humanism.
mcdesignarts 6 months ago
wake up call'' any goverment can kill and or murder people....don't wear rose colored glasses your whole life in deny..
73eastcoastman 6 months ago
The loss of Lincoln was the absolute worse thing that could have happened for the South. He wanted to pour money into the South, so they could rebuild. He intended Reconstruction to actually rebuild the South. The Reconstruction the South got, was not the reconstruction we got. He wanted to rebuild the South the way we helped Germany and Japan after WW2. He didn't intend it to be a punishment. Or so I've read, and i believe it.
gotch09 6 months ago
I just dislike Americans
Paulbojert 6 months ago
@Paulbojert I mean, who really cares. we don't like you either.
sugarfoot59 6 months ago
@sugarfoot59 No one like you, and your country is dying soon.
Paulbojert 6 months ago
Felt kind of sorry for Dr. Mudd, he had worked on Booth's leg after he jumped from the balcony. He had no idea who he was working on, but he was a doc, so fix him up!
oldfart387 6 months ago
Well done & the real deal. I remember seeing Look or Life magazine's article in the mid '60's with these photos, back when I was a kid.
jimbowie09 6 months ago
What you see at 0:43 onward is motion picture that shows they had the technology to film at a fast enough rate to simulate action as our eyes percieve it. This is like what we see today in movies. They've made it seem like motion picture was someting invented in around 1915. In fact, they were using it in 1865. There must be huge storage of political films and war films from 1865 and before that we aren't told about. Zionist Jews are using films to persecute innocent people and convict whitess.
MostMagnificentOne 7 months ago
@MostMagnificentOne You are one really funny sand nigger. Or skinhead.
madisonelectronic 7 months ago
@MostMagnificentOne I think you ought to consider the benefits of being grounded in reality.
lazurm 6 months ago
@MostMagnificentOne
You are a NUT!
NearAbbeyRoad 6 months ago
I was right! They had motion picture in Lincoln's day. This video proves it. The cameraman was able to take photos fast enough to capture the action like they do today at 24 frames a second. The Zionist banker-controlled governments have hidden this technology from the public. It was hidden to mind-control the public, it's part of the brainwashing. They were slow to release the technology, waiting until they could use it against us. Zionists use black magic which are what their films are for.
MostMagnificentOne 7 months ago