(09-21-2021, 06:51 PM)Veronica Wrote: Clearly someone went into much pain to put John Wilkes Booth back in the picture again in 1888. So, what about the possibility that JWB was not the assassin on the 14th of April 1865 and was in 1888 not 'Jack the Ripper'. Why not Rathbone as the assassin and John Wilkes Booth was in the Presidential Box to promote the next coming play of Julius Caesar, which explains his dagger and the words of six Semper Tyrannus.
Rewriting history?
Do not think so, it is more that so much has been written; especially by Professor Stephen M. Archer's in his 'Junius Brutus Booth Theatrical Prometheus' which brings about the saying, "time reveals everything".
Unlikely in my opinion that Rathbone was the assassin since no one else in the Presidential Box said he was. Also since Rathbone was stabbed, Booth would have had no reason to to jump over the box railing to escape the scene. He could have opened the box door and been a hero because he subdued Rathbone.
Not being as familiar with British history as you, I can't see a connection to Booth and Jack the Ripper, or Booth and W T Stead, or to the Thames River Disaster of 1888.
Lincoln's Revelance Questioned by National Park Service
