I am sorry, Laurie, but it's not Grant.

Hint #5: The book with the Gath interview of this person is devoted to one man, not the assassination as a whole. It's a very new book.

The last clue did it! Dr. George Mudd in his interview with Townsend mentioned Mrs. Surratt near the end of the interview.

Congratulations, Laurie! The statement about Mary Surratt was in an interview with Samuel Mudd's cousin, Dr. George D. Mudd. The entire interview is in Bob Summers' new book.

Months ago this interview was discussed on the forum. IMO, the most interesting statement in the interview is where George Mudd states:

"I think there is no question that Sam Mudd immediately knew Booth, and that Booth told him that he had murdered the president."

This woodcut engraving was originally published together with a poem simply entitled "Abraham Lincoln".
   
Who composed this poem?

I recognize the print, Eva -

The poem was by none other than Tom Taylor -

Here's a very easy one: What is Tom Taylor better known for?

(01-22-2014 12:17 PM)BettyO Wrote:  I recognize the print, Eva -

The poem was by none other than Tom Taylor -

Fantastic, Betty! "Britannia Sympathizes with Columbia", drawn by John Tenniel, was published in the May 6, 1865 issue of th British magazine "Punch" together with Taylor's (who edited the "Punch") poem, which you can read here:
http://www.nytimes.com/1865/05/18/news/a...ncoln.html

John Tenniel also illustrated "Alice in Wonderland". My favorite character from (in? of?...prepositions and I...we will never be on good terms...) that book is this furry fellow:
   
(I'm sure she was the prototype of him:. Gene, what does Fido think of the Cheshire Cat?)

Betty, you win a very noble British prize, all this is only for you:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvgl_2JRIUs

(01-22-2014 06:31 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Here's a very easy one: What is Tom Taylor better known for?

The Englishman who wrote Our American Cousin??

(01-22-2014 09:31 PM)Hess1865 Wrote:  

(01-22-2014 06:31 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Here's a very easy one: What is Tom Taylor better known for?

The Englishman who wrote Our American Cousin??

I'll say you're correct, Mr. Hess, so that I can ask a new question.

Tom Taylor is buried in his native England. Who is buried on the nearby island of Jersey and is also connected to the Lincoln assassination?

Harry Hawk

Well done, Anita. I thought that one would be harder.

Harry Hawk is, sadly, unmarked in La Croix Cemetery, Jersey:

(01-22-2014 09:31 PM)Hess1865 Wrote:  

(01-22-2014 06:31 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Here's a very easy one: What is Tom Taylor better known for?

The Englishman who wrote Our American Cousin??

A+ Mr. Hess

(01-23-2014 03:27 PM)Dave Taylor Wrote:  Harry Hawk is, sadly, unmarked in La Croix Cemetery, Jersey:

Dave, how very sad. He went through such a traumatic experience that changed his life forever. He's earned a marker.

While researching a topic in another thread I came across the following quote carried in a newspaper many years after the assassination. It was said by an actor. (The actor was not a cast member in Our American Cousin the night the president was shot.)

What actor said:

"Lincoln was an admirer of the man who assassinated him. I know that, for he said to me one day that there was a young actor over in Ford’s Theater whom he desired to meet, but that the actor had on one pretext or another avoided any invitations to visit the White House. That actor was John Wilkes Booth."

I think we all know what Booth said several years earlier when he was told Pres. Lincoln wanted to meet Booth after seeing him in a play Lincoln attended.