Mary Killed Abe?
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(Conspiracy Nation, 08/06/06)
-- "Offered for your consideration" (Rod Serling's phrase): that Mary
Todd Lincoln shot, with a small derringer she was known to carry, her
husband Abraham Lincoln, on April 14, 1865, at Ford's Theater.
As Lewis Carroll is quoted as having said, "It's beneficial to
your health to try and believe a few impossible things before
breakfast."
Those who have read a little about Abraham Lincoln's
assassination cannot help but be puzzled by various circumstances. The
more one reads, the less one knows. Exasperated, one starts to theorize.
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It was years ago that the Conspiracy
Nation editor received a startling report from a man known as
"the anonymous author." He claimed to have worked with the late Linda
Goodman researching the real Abe Lincoln, behind the mythology.
(Original report at http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cn11-32.
See also http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cn11-33)
We are told that Abe Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Kentucky.
Who were his parents? Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, is the tale. In
fact, Thomas Lincoln, in exchange for "a consideration" (money) from
Abraham Enlow of Kentucky, assumed the paternity of the infant child of
Nancy Hanks. Furthermore, Nancy Hanks' mother, Lucy Hanks, was named by
a Harrodsburg, Kentucky court for "suspected immorality." Grandma Lucy
had been "a bit wild" in her day. (Myths After Lincoln by
Lloyd Lewis)
But "the anonymous author" goes further in his allegations as to
Abraham Lincoln's paternity. He has Nancy Hanks as a maid and nanny
working for Rothschild kin. She possibly had intercourse with her
employer, resulting in the child named Abraham. According to author
Lloyd Lewis, Lincoln in later years confided to campaign biographer
John L. Scripps the details of his ancestry. However Scripps suppressed
the information and we do not know what it told.
An alternate possibility exists of "wild" Grandma Lucy Hanks as the
bearer of an illegitimate Rothschild heir, Nancy Hanks, who passed down
the bloodline to her son Abraham.
In later years, Lincoln became a circuit lawyer, traveling by
horseback to trials throughout Illinois. During these travels,
according to "the anonymous author," Lincoln had an affair with an
illegitimate daughter of King Leopold of Hapsburg. This relationship
between two unacknowledged scions would have been encouraged by elite,
bloodline families. From that union with "Elizabeth" were born twin
daughters. These girls were eight years old when Lincoln became
president.
All this was kept secret from Mary Todd Lincoln. "Elizabeth," the
"other woman," departed for Europe. Friends of Abraham Lincoln raised
and cared for his daughters.
"Lincoln was a virtual nobody before the Republican Convention of
1860," notes the anonymous author, "and all of a sudden he became a
very important person." This sort of miraculous arrival also occurred
in the case of William Jefferson Clinton, who the late Sherman H.
Skolnick (http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Skolnick.html)
insisted is a Rockefeller bastard child.
Mary Todd Lincoln is known to have been high-strung, "emotionally
unstable." Bear in mind that in the mid-19th century opium was not a
controlled substance. It is not beyond belief that Mary Lincoln could
have been medicating herself. If so, she could well have developed an
addiction.
She is also known to have carried a small derringer, single-shot
pistol. Again, given the times and with no Secret Service protection,
this would have been a logical thing to do.
Consider this also. Why would John Wilkes Booth have carried only a
small derringer, and a knife, when he attempted such a monumental task
as the assassination of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln? In fact,
according to author John Chandler Griffin (Abraham Lincoln's Execution),
we do not even know the derringer weapon attributed to Booth was
actually his! "Associated Press reporter Lawrence Gobright, who was
searching for his lost watch, found the Derringer on the floor of the
[theater] box the afternoon following the execution and so it has
always been assumed it was the weapon Booth used to assassinate the
president. In fact, it is not known for certain that Booth ever owned
this weapon..." (Griffin, op. cit.) And, adds Griffin, "It strikes one
as especially odd that Booth should have armed himself with a single-shot Derringer to perform
this deed."
Famous actors such as John Wilkes Booth routinely used "stand-ins."
This is the time of live theater, remember, and "the show must go on."
If the actor or actress were incapacitated by illness, for example, the
stand-in was available to perform the role. The anonymous author has
Booth's stand-in as "being in the wrong place at the wrong time." To
supplement his income, the stand-in ran errands. On April 14, 1865,
Booth's double innocently entered the Ford's Theater box to deliver
Mary's medicine.
Inside the box, a furious Mary Lincoln had learned recently about
her husband's affair with "Elizabeth" and Abe's twin daughters. She
impulsively pulled her derringer when she heard the lines from "Our
American Cousin," referring to a "sockdologizing old man-trap." The
bullet entered from the side,
inches behind Abraham Lincoln's left ear. Who was seated by his side?
Not John Wilkes Booth, but Mary Todd Lincoln.
Booth's stand-in, stunned by events, instinctively sought to flee.
He was detained momentarily by Major Henry R. Rathbone, who suffered a
knife wound from the panicked Booth stand-in.
In the typically FUBAR government pursuit of John Wilkes Booth, it
was a Captain Boyd who mistakenly was surrounded and shot dead. The
Booth stand-in escaped and finally died in Enid, Oklahoma in 1903. (http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Booth.htm
See also http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Suibooth.htm)
The real John Wilkes Booth eventually made his way to Ceylon. (http://www.shout.net/~bigred/RealBooth.html)
In the 1960s, Ray Neff discovered secret coded messages left by
General Lafayette Baker of the Union's National Detective Police. (http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Neff.htm)
"In new Rome there walked three men, a Judas, a Brutus and a spy,"
Baker purportedly wrote. Baker himself was the "spy" and Edwin Stanton,
Secretary of War, was the "Judas." The identity of "Brutus" has been
presumed to be Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's vice-president. But "Brutus"
would indicate Lincoln's
closest friend, definitely not Andrew Johnson.
The "anonymous author" included a further intriguing sidelight in
his report (op. cit.) One of Abraham Lincoln's daughters had been given
over to the care of Felix Turner Hughes. Felix died however soon after
the daughter arrived at his South Carolina plantation. A relative named
Felix Monroe Hughes took over as guardian. Awhile later, this relative
raped Lincoln's daughter. She gave birth to a child which she named
"88" -- a stand-in for the eighth letter of the alphabet, hence "H.H."
This "H.H." was, in other words, Howard Hughes, Sr., father of Howard
Hughes, Jr., the famous aviator and crucial element to "The Gemstone
Files."
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