The Lincoln Conspiracy

The Lincoln Conspiracy

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[lebogart2002]

@MrMarines94 I'm sure it's just a typo, but JWB (calling himself John St. Helens) was in Granbury, TEXAS.

[MrMarines94]

If you any questions or comments feel free to email me at... mattpowell1994@yahoo.com

[MrMarines94]

He was safe after making such a statement as he did. In 1906 a man by the name of David George died in Enid OK after drinking arsenic, before he died he claimed to be John Wilkes Booth, Finis L Herold heard of the news and went to Identify the body and it was infact John St Helen.

[MrMarines94]

1872 elizabeth payne and John Wilkes Booth were remarried, almost exactly one year later John St. Helen believed he was dying, and he callled his good friend Finis L Bates and told him, " My name is not John St Helen but it is John Wilkes Booth and i am the man who killed Lincoln. Bates believed his friend as saying " If someone was dying, why would they make such an outrageous statement." St. Helen did not die and he left his wife and home in Granbury TN as to what i believe as him not thinking

[MrMarines94]

end. That Identity is John Wilkes Booth changing his name to John St. Helen. Evidence of Booth changing his name occured in 1872 in franklin TN when a marrage certificate stating the names of a elizabeth payne and a John Wilkes Booth a year prior to this John st helens told his wife Elizabeth that his name was really john wilkes Booth. Elizabeth was not upset at the fact that she was married to the man who killed Lincoln but she was upset that the man she married had a different name. so in

[MrMarines94]

was killed Stanton had Wilkes moved from a prison in South Carolina to a prison in DC. Well wouldnt the soilders want the actual killer of their beloved president to be caught and not a imposter? Not exactly. Every man in the outfit who caught "Booth" was rewarded a substantial amount of money even the privates were each rewarded todays equivelent of $25,000. In order to keep this money each man remained quiet about it being boyd and not booth. Their is one identity that does not run into a dead

[MrMarines94]

Nothing from lying he was already caught.. The man who did the autopsy on the supposed booth body had performed surgery on the actual booth two years prior, and his words to the soilders were.. " This body is not Booth, Booth did not have Freckles or Auburn hair. One theory is that Secretary Of War Edward Stanton was in desperate need to cath Lincoln's killer, that he had wilkes sent to the barn where he knew the soilders would go, this theory is supported by the fact that two days after Lincoln

[MrMarines94]

Booth not only had help, he was also not killed in the tobacco barn. Booth left to days prior to the day he was supposidly killed. Put in his place was a confederate captain my the name of John Boyd Wilkes. When David Herold saw the man that the Union soilders had shot Herold looked at the Union Col. and said.. " who is this man?" the Union Col. then looked at Herold and said " What do you mean? that is Booth" Herold said " No he said his name was Boyd not Booth" Why would Herold lie? he gained