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RE: Assassination Trivia - L Verge - 07-27-2016
I'm confused because John C. Breckinridge was a Confederate on the run at the time of the assassination, wasn't he?
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 07-28-2016
Whether one was a Confederate or not does not have to do with the answer. You will see what I mean when the correct answer is posted.
Hint #3: The correct answer involves a building that still stands today.
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 07-28-2016
Hint #4: Again, Eva was on the right track in post #1552.
Hint #4.75: We have a forum member whose name is the same as the correct answer.
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 07-28-2016
I cannot think of any more clues, so I shall just give the answer.
All three men, during their terms in Congress, boarded at one time or another at the Petersen House.
SOURCE: p. 7 of Kathy Canavan's excellent book.
RE: Assassination Trivia - L Verge - 07-28-2016
The next sound you hear will be me kicking myself because that was one of my first thoughts and I chose not to post it!!!
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 07-31-2016
Which person whose name is in a good many Lincoln assassination books later died of a heart attack as he was purchasing a pair of gloves?
RE: Assassination Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 08-01-2016
(I instantly sensed the source again [hint] thus will hold back...)
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 08-01-2016
Hint #1: He was not in Ford's Theatre when the assassination took place.
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 08-01-2016
Hint #2: In his later years he was a real estate agent.
RE: Assassination Trivia - Anita - 08-01-2016
Willie Clark. p. 175 Kathy Canavan's excellent book. Thanks for the hint Eva. I remembered reading this but couldn't remember where.
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 08-02-2016
Brilliant, Anita. Indeed it was Willie Clark.
You win one pair of gloves by Fratelli Orsini!
RE: Assassination Trivia - Anita - 08-02-2016
Thanks Roger. I haven't worn gloves, other than the winter type, since the 1970s. My grandfather was a glove cutter. I will add these to my collection.
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 08-11-2016
I could put this in another category, but because it was said by a person who is part of the assassination saga, I will put it here.
What person described Abraham Lincoln as follows:
"...one of the gentlest, best and loveliest men I ever knew. I never saw him out of temper - the kindest husband, the tenderest father, the truest friend, as well as the wisest statesman."
RE: Assassination Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 08-11-2016
John Hay? Or one of the physicians?
(It sounds like something one would find in Good's "100 Eyewitness Accounts"!)
RE: Assassination Trivia - Anita - 08-11-2016
Clara Harris. Yes Eva, it's in Good's book.