Andrew Johnson - Mistress

[JMadonna]

(11-16-2017 08:26 PM)Steve Wrote:  I should point out that Starr's statement said that she hadn't seen Booth in 2 weeks, although that would also apply to the idea that she was in the room with Johnson.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying that I believe, disbelieve or am advocating for the above theory yet; I'm just putting it out as a response/thought experiment to yours.

Steve,
I misspoke when I said 'this is my theory take it or leave it'. It's actually only a part of my theory. My goal was to try to rectify known historical events that have been ignored in the official narrative. In this case I linked two events; Ella's suicide attempt with how Booth knew that Johnson was in his room that evening, while the rest of Washington was celebrating.

It offers a better explanation for Turner’s actions that night rather than assuming the Victorian premise that she was a brokenhearted harlot atoning for her sins.

The notion that Booth merely assumed that Johnson would be alone in his room is simply not conceivable and suppressing any evidence of a connection between Booth and Johnson was imperative to preserve the function of government.

Before my theory, no one had ever questioned why Johnson was alone in his room. He was not a man who would rather sit alone than drink with friends celebrating the end of the war.

To some of Johnson’s early defenders, reading a book by gaslight seemed the only scenario that justified his being alone in his room that evening. So, even though that action was completely out of character for Andrew Johnson, to some of his early biographers that is what they speculated that he was probably doing during those critical hours.

Since sex trumps drinking alone, I reasoned that it was far more likely that Johnson was alone in his ten-foot square room because he was expecting a female visitor. I couldn't prove it but there was too much historical speculation to believe that he was monogamist. I also knew that Booth had smartly directed each assassin and victim. If he was going to decapitate the government, he could leave nothing to chance.

As for Ella, her statement to police consisted of only one paragraph and she doesn't appear to have been questioned at all. If the government authorities did not ask the assassin's girl friend any questions then either they were incompetent (they weren't) or the statement was heavily edited.

In her deposition she says she heard Booth speak of the president as ‘a good man’, if true she was probably the only one. Booth made a point of denouncing Lincoln in almost every city he played.

She also signed her deposition with three aliases, none of which used her surname Turner in order to disassociate her from the E.T. letter investigators found in Booth’s room. Did she do that on her own or was she directed to do so by government officials?

In the E.T. letter she referred to Booth as her ‘darling Baby’ which was not an address one would use for someone with whom one ‘was not on good terms with for over a year’. Conclusion? Her entire deposition was an obvious whitewash to keep whatever she knew quiet.

This is consistent with Stanton's behavior. Turner was not the only woman in Booth’s life whom Stanton helped keep secret. Officially, there were pictures of at least five women found on Booth’s body, but Stanton did not release their names to the public. The pictures were reported to be all actress friends of Booth but that was a lie. It wasn’t until many years later that one of the pictures was identified as Booth's fiancée, Lucy Hale, daughter of the Senator.

Hopefully, you can see I'm not just throwing spitballs at the wall. I did a great deal of research for my book before I published. You can believe it or not but I'm not interested in engaging in any "thought experiments".