John Patrick Brophy

[Pamela]

Thanks, Roger! Brophy again mentioned three attempts in the Confederate Veteran article:

"John and the others, except Atzerodt, Payne and Herold, dropped out of the kidnapping conspiracy after the third attempt failed."
and
"During these various attempts to kidnap the President Mrs. Surratt was in utter ignorance of her son's doings."

Something else curious from the article:
"He (Brophy) traced the conspiracy step by step from it's first inception, on September 15, 1864, to the assassination."

John Surratt said this in the Rockville lecture:

"In the fall of 1864 I was introduced to John Wilkes Booth, who, I was given to understand, wished to know something about the main avenues leading from Washington to the Potomac."

John Surratt said this in the Hanson Hiss interview:

"Ah! Wilkes Booth! I loathe him. In the first place, Wilkes Booth was never introduced to me by Dr. Mudd on the street or anywhere else. Booth came to me with a letter of introduction from a valued and trusted friend. In the second place, Weichmann was nowhere near when Booth presented his letter."