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RE: Extra Credit Questions - Anita - 02-02-2015 06:04 PM
Sorry for not posting sooner. Excellent memory! It's in Laramie.
" But why is Lincoln in Wyoming? It's because the head originally stood alongside the highest point of the old coast-to-coast Lincoln Highway, at Sherman Summit, 8,878 feet above sea level. When I-80 was completed in 1969, the head was moved here -- losing a couple of hundred feet (and its key rationale for existing, really) but gaining a vast new audience.
Abe Lincoln head. [attachment=1397]
The bronze head weighs over two tons and is 13.5 feet tall. It's perched atop a 30-foot granite pedestal, ensuring that it can be seen from quite a distance, and looking uncomfortably similar to box-bound Captain Pike from Star Trek (the original series). The head is intentionally oversized on tiny shoulders, like a cartoon caricature, and seems to be sagging from its own weight.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/8450
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 02-03-2015 06:48 PM
Who was Jim Limber? (Betty, I know you know, but please hold off on answering.)
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 02-04-2015 08:41 AM
(02-03-2015 06:48 PM)L Verge Wrote: Who was Jim Limber? (Betty, I know you know, but please hold off on answering.)
The man who saw Booth riding by the south side of the Capitol Building (as he was escaping)?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - STS Lincolnite - 02-04-2015 09:29 AM
(02-04-2015 08:41 AM)RJNorton Wrote:(02-03-2015 06:48 PM)L Verge Wrote: Who was Jim Limber? (Betty, I know you know, but please hold off on answering.)
The man who saw Booth riding by the south side of the Capitol Building (as he was escaping)?
Was he the young black boy that was "adopted" by the Davises? I know his name was Jim something and that the name was sort of weird like this one.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 02-11-2015 06:29 AM
Where is this, respectively what happened here?
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RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 02-11-2015 08:27 AM
Well, Eva, I am 99.99% certain this is wrong, but I'll guess Ft. Jefferson. It does not look like Ft. Jefferson, but I know you were there on your Florida trip last April.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 02-11-2015 10:08 AM
Roger, you are 99,99% correct in this is not Ft. Jefferson.
Hint #1: This is indeed a question that matches the assassination trivia category.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 02-11-2015 10:24 AM
It appears to me to be a structure outside of Rome related to the Vatican outpost where the authorities first attempted to capture John Surratt.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 02-11-2015 12:08 PM
Brilliant, Laurie! The photo, taken in 1937, shows the barracks at Veroli, Italy, from where John Surrat purportedly escaped arrest by Papal authorities, surviving a 100-foot drop. In 1867, the towers weren't connected by a wall, but by a low balustrade.
On November 6, 1866, Lieutenant-Colonel Allet of the Commanding Zouave Battalion, Velletri, was instructed to "cause the arrest of the Zouave Watson (alias John Surratt), and have him conducted, under secure escort, to the military prison at Rome. It is of much importance that this order be executed with exactness."
The following day, Lieutenant-Colonel Allet telegraphed as follows:
"Pontifical Zouaves, Battalion Headquarters,
Velletri, November 7, 1866.
His Excellency, the General-Minister of War, Rome.
General: I have the honor to inform you that the Zouave John Watson has been arrested at Veroli, and will be taken tomorrow morning, under good escort, to Rome. While he was searched for at Trisulti, which was his garrison, he was arrested by Captain De Lambilly, at Veroli, where he was on leave.
I have the honor to be. General, your Excellency's Very humble and obedient servant, Lieut.-Col. Allet."
...and another day later:
"Velletri, 8.35 a. m., November 8 1866.
His Excellency, the General-Minister of War, Rome:
I received the following telegram from Captain Lambilly: At the moment of leaving the prison, surrounded by six men as guards, Watson plunged into the ravine, more than a hundred feet deep, which defends the prison. Fifty Zouaves are in pursuit.
Lieut.-Colonel Allet."
At four o'clock on the morning of the 8th of November a sergeant and six men knocked at the gate of the Velletri prison, which opens on a platform which overlooks the country. A balustrade prevents promenaders from falling on the rocks, situated at least thirty-five feet below. After leaving the gate of the prison Surratt made a leap and cast himself into the void, landing on a ledge of rocks projecting from the face of the mountain, where he might have been seriously injured, but gained the depths of the valley. The refuse from the barracks accumulated on the rock, and in this manner his fall was broken. Had he leaped a little farther he would have fallen into an abyss. Patrols were immediately organized, but in vain. He was tracked from Velletri to Sora and Naples, stopping at the latter place for a few days, when he left on the steamer Tripoli for Alexandria, Egypt, under the name of Walters.
(Osborn H. Oldroyd: "The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln," pp. 230-232.)
Laurie, one prize matching the question would be a free bungee jump, but I'm afraid you wouldn't appreciate it. Allora ti auguro solamente una splendida giornata - so I just wish you a wonderful day!
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 02-11-2015 03:36 PM
I was so sure that you were going to tell me that I had won an all-expenses-paid trip to Veroli!
About a month ago, I recounted the story of my correspondence with a young man from the Czech Republic who was very interested in the Lincoln assassination. Jan traveled the John Surratt escape route through Italy and sent pictures of Veroli and Velletri. This would have been in the mid-1980s, and it doesn't appear as though there has been much change in the scenery.
The Surratt Society has done so many Booth Escape Route Tours over the years that we have almost lost count. And, we did one Atzerodt escape route tour. I think it's time we organized a John Surratt escape route tour! It would take more than twelve hours - probably twelve days to go from Elmira, NY, into Canada, across to Liverpool, and then down the continent to the Vatican and its outposts.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 02-11-2015 04:08 PM
...and Alexandria...
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 02-11-2015 04:36 PM
(02-11-2015 04:08 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: ...and Alexandria...
Of course, I didn't carry through to the end. There was also a layover in Malta, I believe. A quarantine allowed no one off or on the boat.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - STS Lincolnite - 02-11-2015 05:17 PM
I'm in (as long as there is no real quarantine)!! Who will be the tour guide?!
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 02-11-2015 05:37 PM
I'd volunteer and love to take over in Egypt to arrest you there.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 02-11-2015 06:30 PM
(02-11-2015 05:17 PM)STS Lincolnite Wrote: I'm in (as long as there is no real quarantine)!! Who will be the tour guide?!
I think the logical tour guide would be Andrew Jampoler, author of The Last Lincoln Conspirator.
(02-11-2015 05:37 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: I'd volunteer and love to take over in Egypt to arrest you there.
Oops - I replied to Scott before I read this. Start studying. BTW: Fred Hatch has a historical novel coming out on John, Jr. I believe the title is Honor or Dishonor.