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david keehn · 03-06-2015, 03:06 PM

(03-05-2015 02:10 PM)RJNorton Wrote: Kudos to forum member David Keehn regarding his excellent article in the current Surratt Courier. It is entitled Knights of the Golden Circle and the Lincoln Assassination: Credible Connections. David covers many topics including Michael O'Laughlen and his April 13th and April 14th actions. I have always been interested in O'Laughlen's reported casing of Stanton's house on the night of the 13th at a time when the Grants were attending a reception there.

There is a thread on David's book here.

Thanks Roger. I wrote the article because I feel that there's still much more to uncover regarding the Lincoln assassination. Whille Stanton initiated one of the largest dragnets in history to identify and arrest potential conspirators, the follow-up was often superficial and many were rather quickly set free (e. g. Louis Carland, Augustu Casauran, Chester, Cox, John Matthews, John McCullough, T. William O'Laughlen). When comparing my knowledge of the Knights to the assassination evidence, I'm left with numerous suspicions and unanswered questions. You mention the testimony of David Stanton and Major Kilburn Knox at 226-27 of the Pittman transcript that Michael O'Laughlen cased Stanton's house around 10 p.m. on April 13. Benjamin Early and O'Laughlen's other friends from Baltimore questioned this, but if they were KGC, it sheds a whole new light on the situation. And who was "Mr. Heard" of Georgetown that Arnold said received the box of weapons from O'Laughlen in Jan. 1864 (see Memoirs of a Lincoln Conspirator, 137)? And what about Ed Hanson and his fellow conspirators that were supposed to kill Johnson (see LAE, 674)? And why would H. C. Young, the head of the KGC around Memphis, who nursed Booth back to health at Cincinnati in Feb. 1864, send Stanton a letter date April 20. 1864 to help the government identify Booth's body (LAE 1400-01)? There's so many things that are mysterious that really haven't been explored. I'd be interested in the thoughts of your members regarding these.