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RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 08-31-2017 02:19 PM

Hint #1: The image I used came from a book on the assassination of Lincoln. The author's last name is composed of 6 letters.

RE: Assassination Trivia - Steve - 08-31-2017 04:13 PM

(08-31-2017 02:59 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  
(08-31-2017 02:19 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Hint #1: The image I used came from a book on the assassination of Lincoln. The author's last name is composed of 6 letters.
I found the letter in "The Web of Conspiracy" as the "Jorgen letter". I know "Jorgen" (respectively "Jørgen") mainly as a (Scandinavian) first name (alias "George", the German version is "Jürgen") , so if there's a different last name to figure I cannot find it in this book.
I think he meant Theodore Roscoe's last name.

RE: Assassination Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 08-31-2017 04:13 PM

(08-31-2017 02:19 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Hint #1: The image I used came from a book on the assassination of Lincoln. The author's last name is composed of 6 letters.
I found the letter in "The Web of Conspiracy" as the "Jorgen letter". I know "Jorgen" (respectively "Jørgen") mainly as a (Scandinavian) first name (alias "George", the German version is "Jürgen") , so if there's a different last name to figure I cannot find it in this book.

RE: Assassination Trivia - L Verge - 08-31-2017 04:14 PM

Google has become my best friend, but I swear I can't find things as easily as you seem to -- especially in identifying photos.

RE: Assassination Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 08-31-2017 04:15 PM

(08-31-2017 04:13 PM)Steve Wrote:  
(08-31-2017 02:59 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  
(08-31-2017 02:19 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Hint #1: The image I used came from a book on the assassination of Lincoln. The author's last name is composed of 6 letters.
I found the letter in "The Web of Conspiracy" as the "Jorgen letter". I know "Jorgen" (respectively "Jørgen") mainly as a (Scandinavian) first name (alias "George", the German version is "Jürgen") , so if there's a different last name to figure I cannot find it in this book.
I think he meant Theodore Roscoe's last name.
...the letter was signed Roscoe??? (Please see Roger's initial question!)

RE: Assassination Trivia - Steve - 08-31-2017 04:19 PM

(08-31-2017 07:36 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Fill in the blank.

This letter to William Seward was signed __________________.

[Image: sewardthreat.jpg]

It doesn't say anything about a last name, that was from Roger's first hint about the book where he found it.

RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 08-31-2017 04:32 PM

Very good, Eva! Yes, that is the "Jorgen" letter. And it was postmarked Lewistown, Illinois. It was simply signed "Jorgen." I think the only book I own that has this image of the actual letter is Roscoe's. The entire text of the letter is in The Lincoln Assassination: The Evidence:

https://books.google.com/books?id=GvYpUeuPPrAC&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=%22i+wish+i+had+cut+your+dam+head+off%22&source=bl&ots=UBaZbO8swX&sig=yyaYYoHJbFOnE2LpaNEs0ZgMq0g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwig_6G2tYLWAhVF6iYKHWclCdoQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=%22i%20wish%20i%20had%20cut%20your%20dam%20head%20off%22&f=false

RE: Assassination Trivia - Steve - 09-01-2017 02:45 AM

(08-31-2017 04:14 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Google has become my best friend, but I swear I can't find things as easily as you seem to -- especially in identifying photos.

I actually use a combination of memory, books, and Google to answer trivia questions. Each trivia question or research project needs a strategy tailored to the question being asked. For instance in this thread:

http://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-695-post-66265.html#pid66265

I googled "grotesque in appearance, the kind who are always at the corner stores, sitting on boxes, whittling sticks, and telling stories as funny as they are vulgar" to take me directly to that part of Mary Chestnut's diary. After seeing the quote was from March 1861, I googled something like "California" "Scott" "Civil War" and "Congressman" which brought me to Charles Scott's Wikipedia page and from there I figured out his wife's name.

Although the next trivia question in that thread, your question about Gen. O. O. Howard, I answered from memory - not having to use Google at all.

In this recent thread:

http://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-3450-post-66946.html#pid66946

To help Marty find a copy of Dr. Curtis's letter to his mother, I googled part of Curtis's quote used. That brought up several websites and books that also only quoted the letter. But one result, and only one result, of the whole Google search brought up a newspaper article behind a paywall. From that I did a newspaper search and found the article.

So to search for quotes include a unique sounding chain of words within " '' and without any breaks in the quote.

I hope this is helpful.

Oh just so you know, there are many trivia questions that I don't even post a reply to. A few are answered before I even see the question, but a lot of times if I don't know the answer I simply won't reply at all. So that might make my "hit" rate seem higher than it actually is.

RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 09-19-2017 04:45 AM

This is an old photo of David Bowie and Dee Dee Ramone when they were at a night club many years ago. The club was named after a person in the Lincoln assassination saga. Who was this person?

[Image: bowieramone.jpg]


RE: Assassination Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 09-19-2017 09:12 AM

I have no clue (so just guess Booth) - but it's a cool question!

RE: Assassination Trivia - Gene C - 09-19-2017 09:21 AM

The Mudd Club.

According to Wikipedia "The Mudd Club was a nightclub in the TriBeCa area of New York City, USA, that operated from 1978 to 1983 as a venue for underground music and counterculture events"

I'm not sure the good doctor would have been impressed.
This from People magazine. http://people.com/archive/why-are-lines-shorter-for-gas-than-the-mudd-club-in-new-york-because-every-night-is-odd-there-vol-12-no-3/

RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 09-19-2017 09:30 AM

Eva, that is a logical guess, but congratulations on this one go to Gene. Good job, Gene. Yes, it is the defunct Mudd Club in New York City.

"The club was opened by Steve Maas, art curator Diego Cortez and downtown denizen Anya Phillips, who rented the loft from artist Ross Bleckner. “Mudd” was named for Samuel Alexander Mudd, a doctor who treated John Wilkes Booth after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination."

http://www.boweryboogie.com/2017/09/exhuming-classic-mudd-club-scene-crime-late-70s/

RE: Assassination Trivia - Thomas Kearney - 09-19-2017 12:39 PM

Won't be going there when I'm traveling next week. Ah well, there's always next time

RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 10-17-2017 04:02 AM

The carriage in which the Lincolns (plus Clara Harris and Henry Rathbone) rode to Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865, was built by the Wood Brothers of New York and presented as a gift to the Lincolns.

Less than a month after the assassination Robert Lincoln sold this carriage to a doctor named F. B. Brewer.

How much did Dr. Brewer pay for the carriage?

RE: Assassination Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 10-17-2017 06:42 AM

I'm just for fun guessing what my car (used) cost - 2000€
($)? I mean it was a used carriage...and only 2PS, no?