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RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 01-24-2019 04:57 PM

Thanks to Steve for sending this picture and question.

Who is this?

[Image: Who is this.jpg]


RE: Assassination Trivia - L Verge - 01-24-2019 05:20 PM

(01-24-2019 04:57 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Thanks to Steve for sending this picture and question.

Who is this?

[Image: Who is this.jpg]

I don't know, but I sure would not want to get on her bad side.

RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 01-24-2019 05:44 PM

Ella Starr?

RE: Assassination Trivia - Steve - 01-24-2019 06:29 PM

(01-24-2019 05:44 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Ella Starr?

Good guess but no, though some people claim she was also romantically linked with Booth. I, and probably most people on this forum, think those claims are hogwash.

RE: Assassination Trivia - Steve - 01-24-2019 09:00 PM

Hint #2: A book investigating the supposed relationship between this woman and Booth came out about five years ago. The author ultimately concluded there was no relationship between the two.

RE: Assassination Trivia - Steve - 01-24-2019 11:44 PM

Hint #3: Later in life this woman wrote a few books on local history, including one on a civil war regiment with a lot of recruits from her area.

RE: Assassination Trivia - Steve - 01-25-2019 02:31 AM

Hint #4: As far as I can tell, by using the (name/keyword) search function, this woman has never been mentioned on the forum before.

RE: Assassination Trivia - Gene C - 01-25-2019 08:24 AM

Kate Scott ?

RE: Assassination Trivia - Steve - 01-25-2019 09:57 AM

Yes, you are correct Gene, it is Kate M. Scott! This photograph of her was taken in 1862 according to the Jefferson County (PA) Historical Society.

Kate was a civil war nurse, newspaper editor, historian, and later social reformer from Pennsylvania. Starting sometime in the 1970's, Ray Neff began promoting the idea that she and John Wilkes Booth had a daughter together despite the fact that Kate was a fervent Unionist who helped raise troops through her newspaper and that she never had any children, ever. The India will of John Byron Wilkes that Neff "found" lists Kate's nonexistent daughter as one of his heirs. Neff also claimed the photo of Helen Western found on Booth's body was Kate.

https://journals.psu.edu/wph/article/view/60177

Somehow, I figured Gene might be the one to answer this question correctly.

Here's Kate's find a grave page:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81353270/kate-m.-scott

Note that after her biography, a Neff fan has posted a full-length transcription of a fake affidavit describing her affair with Booth found in the so-called "Potter Papers".

RE: Assassination Trivia - Gene C - 01-25-2019 10:50 AM

(01-25-2019 09:57 AM)Steve Wrote:  Somehow, I figured Gene might be the one to answer this question correctly.

I'm not quite sure how to take that - Big Grin

RE: Assassination Trivia - L Verge - 01-25-2019 01:37 PM

Steve - You definitely stumped me on this one. If I ever read about Kate Scott, I don't remember it. If Neff was the only source, I probably wiped it out of my mind!

What is the title of the more recent book that disproves Neff's claims?

RE: Assassination Trivia - Steve - 01-25-2019 02:33 PM

The title of the book is Kate M. Scott: Did She or Didn't She? by Carole A. Briggs:

https://www.amazon.com/Kate-M-Scott-Did-Didnt/dp/0971470219
(01-25-2019 10:50 AM)Gene C Wrote:  
(01-25-2019 09:57 AM)Steve Wrote:  Somehow, I figured Gene might be the one to answer this question correctly.

I'm not quite sure how to take that - Big Grin

Take it as a compliment!

RE: Assassination Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 02-21-2019 11:11 AM

Without the help of the omniscient Google, in the broad Lincoln assassination saga, what role did John S. Chenowith play?

RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 02-21-2019 11:38 AM

Did he have anything to do with Dr. Luke Blackburn's yellow fever plot?

RE: Assassination Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 02-21-2019 11:45 AM

Good idea, Roger, but not correct.