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BettyO · 11-13-2014, 08:16 AM

Quote:What is most interesting about this thread, is that is has started out on the assassination photos, moved to the terrible nature of the crime, to Lewis Powell. I believe this is a prime example of six degrees of separation. I think if I started a thread on Mary Todd Lincoln's ingrown toenail, somehow Betty could bring it into the context of Lewis Powell

Hey! Don't blame me, Jim! I didn't turn this thread into Powell....I just picked up on it -

HerbS · 11-13-2014, 08:18 AM

True,but,BettyO always brings history and humor to topic at hand!

Jim Garrett · 11-13-2014, 06:31 PM

Betty is a most remarkable person, because she absolutely does "get it". She knows history is about the people who lived it and boy oh boy, she can connect the dots better than anybody.

Eva Elisabeth · (This post was last modified: 11-14-2014 03:22 AM by Eva Elisabeth.)

(11-13-2014 06:34 AM)HerbS Wrote: BettyO-I love your red hair.

Love red hair, too - and you and your hair look great in the photos, Betty!

(11-13-2014 07:44 AM)Jim Garrett Wrote: I think if I started a thread on Mary Todd Lincoln's ingrown toenail, somehow Betty could bring it into the context of Lewis Powell.

Well, and I can bring it back to (the) Lincoln(s)...(if you will excuse me).

(11-13-2014 05:44 AM)BettyO Wrote: I'm glad for one that this boy...finally got laid to rest as he and his parents would have wanted.

And he rests in the most beautiful, peaceful, hidden, quaint place!!! Of all cemeteries I've seen this was the one where I instantly thought like Abraham Lincoln (to which the climate and vegetation sure contributed) when, while at City Point in 1865, he drove one day with Mary along the banks of the James River and they passed a country graveyard which Mary described as a "retired place...shaded by trees...so attractive and quiet that we stopped the carriage and walked through it*", and he said: "Mary, you are younger than I, you will survive me. When I'm gone, lay my remains in some quiet place like this." (*Thanks God no cars disturb the solemn atmosphere in little Genova Cemetery! The source btw is Ida Tarbell: "The Life of Abraham Lincoln", vol. II, pp.231-232.) I haven't been at Oak Ridge Cemetery yet, but I know for sure I personally like Genova better, and I also assume it would have matched Lincoln's idea behind the wish he expressed.

Was this another premonition - so shortly before his death?

RJNorton · 11-14-2014, 05:20 AM

Eva, Vicki and I sure agree with your description of the Geneva cemetery. Back in 1997 we decided to make a two-day trip to Geneva to see it. What you say is exactly as we found it. I remember asking my neighbor to take in the newspaper and our mail while we were gone. The conversation went something like this:

Q. Where are you going?
A. We're going to Geneva to see where Lewis Powell is buried.
Q. Huh?
A. He's the guy who attacked Secretary of State Seward.
Q. Huh?

I find this typical of Americans - of course they know Lincoln was assassinated, but the fact Lincoln was not the only target that night comes as news to many folks.

HerbS · 11-14-2014, 06:10 AM

Oh Yeah! Most people don't know more than what they have been told.Many peope have said to me,"I never learned that in high school",Huh!

Eva Elisabeth · 11-14-2014, 06:58 AM

(11-14-2014 05:20 AM)RJNorton Wrote: Eva, Vicki and I sure agree with your description of the Geneva cemetery. Back in 1997 we decided to make a two-day trip to Geneva to see it. What you say is exactly as we found it. I remember asking my neighbor to take in the newspaper and our mail while we were gone. The conversation went something like this:

Q. Where are you going?
A. We're going to Geneva to see where Lewis Powell is buried.
Q. Huh?
A. He's the guy who attacked Secretary of State Seward.
Q. Huh?

I find this typical of Americans - of course they know Lincoln was assassinated, but the fact Lincoln was not the only target that night comes as news to many folks.

I can well relate to that. The camping site where I stayed was near Orlando. Assuming I was there for Disney, the lady at the check-in instantly began to inform me on their shuttle service, tickets, etc. I said I actually was only there to find a grave of the Lincoln conspirator who attempted to murder the Secretary of State. Her reply was something like "Pardon?...Well, ok..." (but her facial expression replied: "Maybe a language issue, maybe she's crazy".)

Jim Garrett · 11-14-2014, 07:03 AM

Over the last few years. I've talked to many thousands of people at Ford's Theatre. Even after going through the museum, they still don't get that it was a conspiracy. After seeing all the guns, knives, pictures, etc, they don't get it. It's not just the young kids, it's all ages. Very very rarely do schools ever teach people how to learn on their own or even think. It seems that we have been teaching people how to take tests.