Booth's Escape Route

[JMadonna]

(01-22-2013 04:31 PM)Natty Wrote:  

(01-22-2013 03:54 PM)Gene C Wrote:  And why is Stanton not a target?

I've always wondered about that myself. Any theories?

It seems likely that Booth’s plot included the assassination of Stanton too, although this attempt has received little coverage in the histories because the would-be assassin was never identified or apprehended.

Two men passing Stanton’s house the evening of April 14 saw a tall man with a high hat hurriedly leaving Stanton’s stoop. The incident made the morning newspaper. When Stanton read it, he remarked to his very close friend, Hudson Taylor, a Washington book seller, that his doorbell was broken and that if it had been in good repair and the tall man had rung it, Stanton, had no doubt that he would have been assassinated. Apparently, the intruder, getting no response to the bell, assumed that no one was home and left, or perhaps, simply got cold feet.