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RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 10-28-2014 02:52 PM
Brilliant, Eva! You are correct.
Since Booth was staying at Stanwix Hall in Albany at the time you win one free week of lodging there. Enjoy your stay!
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RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 11-02-2014 05:22 PM
It was reported that this man was the first person to notify the White House that the President had been shot. This happened at about 10:40 P.M. on Friday, April 14, 1865. What is his name?
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RE: Assassination Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 11-03-2014 04:02 AM
C. C. Bangs? (I believe Sumner was said having been the first one, too.)
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 11-03-2014 04:52 AM
Excellent guesses, Eva, and possibly right, but I am going with Tom Pendel's memory on this one. He names a different person as being the first to alert the White House to the tragedy.
Hint#1: The man's name will immediately make a person think of someone else.
RE: Assassination Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 11-03-2014 06:14 AM
Pendel was a good hint. Would it maybe make one think of him?
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(Isaac Newton?)
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 11-03-2014 08:31 AM
Kudos, Eva! According to Tom Pendel it was Isaac Newton, commissioner of agriculture, who first notified the White House.
http://www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org/inside.asp?ID=181&subjectID=2
You win one copy of the definitive biography of Isaac Newton (commissioner of agriculture).
RE: Assassination Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 11-03-2014 05:38 PM
Thanks, Roger! That's sure an easier read than this book by Isaak Newton:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophi%C3%A6_Naturalis_Principia_Mathematica
(or Euklid's "Elements"...)
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 11-10-2014 04:15 PM
This person's name enters the assassination saga only after the trial was over.
The July 12, 1866, Chicago Tribune reported this man committed suicide, and his last words were "Good bye, Me!"
Who was this man?
RE: Assassination Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 11-11-2014 04:11 AM
Since nobody seems to know I now "publish" my research (didn't know either). I found one senator, James H. Lane, who died on July 11, 1866, from shooting himself in the head on July 1:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10284
"After the war James H. Lane sided with President Andrew Johnson against the Radical Republicans, making powerful enemies and was soon accused of being involved in fraudulent Indian contracts. Severely depressed while defending himself and in fragile mental health, he shot himself in the head on July 1, 1866, lingering for 10 days before succumbing."
According to Wiki "on July 1, 1866 he shot himself in the head as he jumped from his carriage in Leavenworth, Kansas. He was allegedly deranged, depressed, had been charged with abandoning his fellow Radical Republicans and had been accused of financial irregularities. He died ten days later near Leavenworth, Kansas, a result of the self-inflicted gunshot."
In line with the oddities of the Lincoln assassination at least two newspapers published his death before it happened. According to the "Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 31, Number 4764", of 4 July 1866, he died on July 2:
"NEWS OF THE MORNING.
James Henry Lane...United States Senator from Kansas, committed suicide at Leavenworth on the Ist of July. He had complained of ill health at St. Louis, where he attempted suicide but was saved by his friends. At Leavenworth he shot himself through the head, and died next day."
http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18660704.2.5
A "Special Dispatch to the New-York Times" of July 04, 1866, too, had already reported his death:
"The telegraph has apprises us of the sudden death by suicide of JAMES H. LANE, Senator from Kansas..."
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E07EFD61631EF34BC4C53DFB166838D679FDE
And, according to Michael Kaufman, he seemed to have prevented Anna Surratt seeing President Johnson to beg for clemency in her mother's case.
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 11-11-2014 05:00 AM
Brilliant, Eva! Senator James Lane is correct. The books I have say he was one of the people who prevented Anna Surratt from seeing President Johnson on the morning of July 7, 1865. Anna wanted to plead for her mother's life but was unable to see the President. Another man who helped stop Anna from seeing the President, Preston King, also later committed suicide. He jumped off a ferryboat on the Hudson River.
Eva, this is the kind of question for which I cannot think of an appropriate prize. So I just send best wishes for a mild winter in Germany! This was a tough question - KUDOS to you!!!!!
RE: Assassination Trivia - Gene C - 11-11-2014 06:37 AM
That reminds me of a book I recently read - The Odd Couple Who Hanged Mary Surratt
http://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/thread-1986.html
RE: Assassination Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 11-11-2014 08:34 AM
(11-11-2014 05:00 AM)RJNorton Wrote: Brilliant, Eva! Senator James Lane is correct. The books I have say he was one of the people who prevented Anna Surratt from seeing President Johnson on the morning of July 7, 1865. Anna wanted to plead for her mother's life but was unable to see the President. Another man who helped stop Anna from seeing the President, Preston King, also later committed suicide. He jumped off a ferryboat on the Hudson River.Thank you, Roger, it was a very tough question!!! I would never have found out without the help of Google.
Eva, this is the kind of question for which I cannot think of an appropriate prize. So I just send best wishes for a mild winter in Germany! This was a tough question - KUDOS to you!!!!!
RE: Assassination Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 11-11-2014 05:19 PM
Who is this gentleman?
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RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 11-11-2014 05:58 PM
Albion P. Howe?
RE: Assassination Trivia - Eva Elisabeth - 11-12-2014 02:57 AM
This is an outstanding guess, Roger, but, I'm sorry, not correct.
Hint #1: In the book I got "him" from, the depicted gentleman occurs after A. P. Howe. (If you "get" the hint and have the book the answer should be easy to find.)