Oddities of the Lincoln assassination

[Houmes]

(11-09-2014 03:43 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Good topic, Heath!

According to p. 280 of Theodore Roscoe's The Web of Conspiracy several American towns received word that the President had been assassinated BEFORE it happened. These cities included:

1. St. Joseph, Minnesota.
2. Manchester, New Hampshire
3. Middletown, New York

This may sound odd today, but it wasn't back then considering all of the death threats he received before his inauguration and during his term in office. The Daily Pantagraph published in Bloomington, IL, on August 12, 1863 printed a rumor of Lincoln's death heard the day before.