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07-27-2014, 08:38 PM
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RE: Bowie Knife
(07-27-2014 07:55 PM)BettyO Wrote:  
Quote:They were most likely part of the box of weapons Booth brought back from New York and transferred to Arnold & O'Laughlin in Baltimore to take back to D.C. for use in the kidnapping plot.

Could these be the same knives that Powell and Surratt were playing with when Weichmann stumbled in on them in Powell's bedroom at the Surratt Boarding House?

That's my guess, Betty.
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07-28-2014, 05:30 AM
Post: #17
RE: Bowie Knife
Please excuse if this has been answered before - is the knife George Atzerodt threw away in the gutter by Creaser's shoe store still around somewhere?
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07-28-2014, 08:10 AM
Post: #18
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(07-28-2014 05:30 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Please excuse if this has been answered before - is the knife George Atzerodt threw away in the gutter by Creaser's shoe store still around somewhere?

Roger, it is on display at Ford's.
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07-28-2014, 08:39 AM
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Thanks, Wes.
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