John Surratt
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05-03-2013, 03:33 PM
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RE: John Surratt
(05-03-2013 06:40 AM)RJNorton Wrote:(05-02-2013 10:02 PM)Gene C Wrote: I'm still not 100% convinced Surratt was in Elmira when President Lincoln was assassinated. Roger: And a third and a fourth look too. There are a lot of things about the conventional wisdom that have an odor about them (again!). We are asked to believe, for example, that after returning to Washington from Richmond on April 3, after just meeting with Benjamin and probably Davis, Surratt, who was in the center of all political maneuverings and developments (Washington), and at a time when Richmond was being evacuated and occupied and the Confederacy collapsing in a cloud of dust, decided to hotfoot it off to Montreal, a 600-mile journey (1,200 round trip), with a stop in New York to see Booth, who, however, was not there, being rather in Boston for a theater engagement. He then resumes his trek to the French-Canadian city and finally arrives on April 6. For what purpose? Why, to deliver to General E. G. Lee dispatches that relate to, according to him (in his Rockville lecture), "accounts of money transactions". Does anyone believe this? He then cools his heels for a few days, admiring the sights of this cosmopolitan city, while his beloved Confederacy continues to collapse in a cloud of dust, until, on April 10 (Monday), he receives word from Booth that their plans have changed and that he must return to Washington forthwith. (The evidence for this communication is very strong.) Shall we surmise that their change of plans has something to do with the fact that Harney was captured and his mission aborted at Burke's Station on the 9th (not the 8th or the 10th, as so many historians have erroneously reported it, but the 9th, per Crawford, his comrade-in-arms). So he hightails it out of Montreal on the 12th, but not to Washington (what happened?), but to Elmira, New York, pursuant to General Lee's request, who wants him to case out the prison there with a view toward a possibile breakout of Confederate POW's, and this despite the fact that Grant had already resumed prisoner exchange in January (shooting for 3,000 per week) and despite the fact that the other General Lee had already thrown in the towel on April 9, thereby, for all practical purposes, ending the war. Does anyone believe this? Then, rather than resume his journey to Washington, per Booth's instructions, he decides to cool his heels in Elmira for a few days, admiring the lower New York scenery, while the Confederacy continues to crumble to dust, until --Mirabile Dictu!!!--he hears of the assassination of Lincoln, whereupon he decides to forget all about Washington and Booth and his mother and decides, instead, to seek refuge and safety among Catholic clergy in Canada, after which he tells three different versions as to how and when he learned of the assassination and how and when he left the country. Does anyone believe this? Not feeling safe enough in Canada, he goes to Europe for sanctuary, telling McMillan and Ste. Marie, when safely away from American justice and while imbibing heavily, everything we need to know to conclude that he and Booth engineered the assassination and the attempted assassinations, at a cost of $10,000 ($140,000 in today's money). Inasmuch as neither he nor his actor friend was working, and inasmuch as it appears to be a safe assumption that his mom's boarding house was not likely to pay that much, it is fair to ask how he came into such a sum. The answer to that question will lead us directly to the masterminds of the the assassination and the attempted decapitation, which, according to the Confederate agent "Johnston" (see p. 727 of The Lincoln Assassination: The Evidence), was to have eliminated 15 Northern leaders, if everything had gone according to plan. (When does it ever?) Bottom line: The conventional wisdom needs a third and fourth look. I am in the middle of the final chapter of my book. You get a free copy. John |
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John Surratt - Rhatkinson - 05-02-2013, 05:36 PM
RE: John Surratt - Jim Garrett - 05-02-2013, 05:50 PM
RE: John Surratt - L Verge - 05-02-2013, 06:00 PM
RE: John Surratt - Rhatkinson - 05-02-2013, 06:36 PM
RE: John Surratt - L Verge - 05-02-2013, 06:49 PM
RE: John Surratt - John Stanton - 05-02-2013, 07:43 PM
RE: John Surratt - Rhatkinson - 05-02-2013, 08:51 PM
RE: John Surratt - Gene C - 05-02-2013, 10:02 PM
RE: John Surratt - RJNorton - 05-03-2013, 06:40 AM
RE: John Surratt - Jim Garrett - 05-03-2013, 06:48 AM
RE: John Surratt - Rhatkinson - 05-03-2013, 08:41 AM
RE: John Surratt - Gene C - 05-03-2013, 09:04 AM
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RE: John Surratt - HerbS - 05-03-2013, 03:49 PM
RE: John Surratt - Bill Richter - 05-03-2013, 04:11 PM
RE: John Surratt - RJNorton - 05-03-2013, 04:24 PM
RE: John Surratt - JMadonna - 05-05-2013, 01:04 PM
RE: John Surratt - HerbS - 05-05-2013, 02:01 PM
RE: John Surratt - L Verge - 05-05-2013, 05:42 PM
RE: John Surratt - JMadonna - 05-05-2013, 06:59 PM
RE: John Surratt - Jane Singer - 05-06-2013, 06:25 PM
RE: John Surratt - JMadonna - 05-07-2013, 06:15 AM
RE: John Surratt - RJNorton - 05-06-2013, 04:52 AM
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RE: John Surratt - J. Beckert - 05-07-2013, 06:43 AM
RE: John Surratt - Gene C - 05-07-2013, 07:00 AM
RE: John Surratt - John Stanton - 05-08-2013, 12:02 AM
RE: John Surratt - JMadonna - 05-08-2013, 06:15 AM
RE: John Surratt - Jane Singer - 05-08-2013, 11:24 AM
RE: John Surratt - JMadonna - 05-08-2013, 02:34 PM
RE: John Surratt - John Stanton - 05-08-2013, 03:15 PM
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RE: John Surratt - Bill Richter - 05-18-2013, 03:14 PM
RE: John Surratt - BettyO - 05-19-2013, 06:32 AM
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RE: John Surratt - John Fazio - 07-30-2013, 02:40 AM
RE: John Surratt - Gene C - 07-30-2013, 09:24 AM
RE: John Surratt - John Fazio - 07-30-2013, 06:41 PM
RE: John Surratt - Rhatkinson - 07-30-2013, 07:13 PM
RE: John Surratt - John Fazio - 07-31-2013, 12:32 PM
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RE: John Surratt - Rhatkinson - 08-02-2013, 04:51 PM
RE: John Surratt - JMadonna - 08-01-2013, 11:12 AM
RE: John Surratt - RJNorton - 07-31-2013, 04:31 AM
RE: John Surratt - John Fazio - 08-01-2013, 11:50 AM
RE: John Surratt - Wild Bill - 07-31-2013, 08:21 AM
RE: John Surratt - HerbS - 07-31-2013, 12:31 PM
RE: John Surratt - SSlater - 07-31-2013, 10:30 PM
RE: John Surratt - RJNorton - 08-01-2013, 04:22 AM
RE: John Surratt - L Verge - 08-01-2013, 08:09 AM
RE: John Surratt - Wild Bill - 08-01-2013, 08:54 AM
RE: John Surratt - Gene C - 08-01-2013, 11:27 AM
RE: John Surratt - John Fazio - 08-02-2013, 01:27 AM
RE: John Surratt - L Verge - 08-01-2013, 11:37 AM
RE: John Surratt - JMadonna - 08-01-2013, 03:09 PM
RE: John Surratt - L Verge - 08-01-2013, 06:10 PM
RE: John Surratt - HerbS - 08-02-2013, 07:09 AM
RE: John Surratt - L Verge - 08-02-2013, 08:13 AM
RE: John Surratt - RJNorton - 08-03-2013, 04:03 AM
RE: John Surratt - SSlater - 08-03-2013, 08:09 PM
RE: John Surratt - HerbS - 08-04-2013, 07:30 AM
RE: John Surratt - John Fazio - 08-04-2013, 01:42 PM
RE: John Surratt - SSlater - 08-04-2013, 09:00 PM
RE: John Surratt - John Fazio - 08-05-2013, 12:23 PM
RE: John Surratt - HerbS - 08-04-2013, 02:09 PM
RE: John Surratt - RJNorton - 08-05-2013, 01:53 PM
RE: John Surratt - SSlater - 08-05-2013, 10:22 PM
RE: John Surratt - John Fazio - 08-06-2013, 07:30 AM
RE: John Surratt - Rhatkinson - 08-06-2013, 07:53 AM
RE: John Surratt - John Fazio - 08-07-2013, 02:20 AM
RE: John Surratt - JB Banning - 08-07-2013, 08:10 AM
RE: John Surratt - L Verge - 08-05-2013, 02:18 PM
RE: John Surratt - RJNorton - 08-06-2013, 04:07 AM
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RE: John Surratt - RJNorton - 08-07-2013, 08:16 AM
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RE: John Surratt - John Fazio - 08-07-2013, 11:35 PM
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RE: John Surratt - John Fazio - 08-09-2013, 02:14 AM
RE: John Surratt - L Verge - 08-07-2013, 06:05 PM
RE: John Surratt - RJNorton - 08-08-2013, 04:17 AM
RE: John Surratt - BettyO - 08-08-2013, 05:21 AM
RE: John Surratt - Jim Garrett - 08-08-2013, 06:06 AM
RE: John Surratt - L Verge - 08-08-2013, 07:42 AM
RE: John Surratt - Thomas Thorne - 08-08-2013, 08:53 AM
RE: John Surratt - J. Beckert - 08-08-2013, 02:01 PM
RE: John Surratt - GARY POPOLO - 08-08-2013, 03:06 PM
RE: John Surratt - RJNorton - 08-09-2013, 03:53 AM
RE: John Surratt - Jim Garrett - 08-08-2013, 06:19 PM
RE: John Surratt - L Verge - 08-08-2013, 06:50 PM
RE: John Surratt - SSlater - 08-08-2013, 09:36 PM
RE: John Surratt - John Fazio - 08-09-2013, 11:27 AM
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RE: John Surratt - John Fazio - 08-11-2013, 02:21 AM
RE: John Surratt - L Verge - 08-10-2013, 10:52 AM
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RE: John Surratt - RJNorton - 08-11-2013, 03:50 AM
RE: John Surratt - L Verge - 08-11-2013, 11:49 AM
RE: John Surratt - John Fazio - 08-12-2013, 08:26 AM
RE: John Surratt - L Verge - 08-12-2013, 10:42 AM
RE: John Surratt - John Fazio - 08-12-2013, 11:19 AM
RE: John Surratt - SSlater - 08-12-2013, 05:09 PM
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