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"Band of Conspirtors" - Lecture on Assassination Novel
10-30-2013, 01:29 PM (This post was last modified: 10-30-2013 01:30 PM by BettyO.)
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"Band of Conspirtors" - Lecture on Assassination Novel
Louise Oertly, Surratt Society President, and myself will attend this lecture tomorrow at the Virginia Historical Society -

http://www.styleweekly.com/richmond/band...id=1975841

"The Past is a foreign country...they do things differently there" - L. P. Hartley
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11-01-2013, 06:04 AM (This post was last modified: 11-01-2013 06:43 AM by BettyO.)
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RE: "Band of Conspirtors" - Lecture on Assassination Novel
David O. Stewart is a wonderful speaker. He is entertaining, informative and has a wonderful delivery. But one would expect that of a defense lawyer. His interest in the assassination began with research for his book on the impeachment of Andrew Johnson and his interest in John Bingham. The result is his recently released novel on the assassination, The Lincoln Deception.

Supposedly Bingham, on his deathbed, claimed that Mary Surratt had confessed to him while incarcerated that there were implications involved which could "destroy the Union" (according to Stewart) - seems I had heard of this before.....don't know the validity of the claim.

Bingham died in 1902, never divulged this confession and carried Mary's secret to his grave. Stewart therefore thought that he'd write a novel around this purported "Secret" and invent his own version of what Mary might have told Bingham -

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11-01-2013, 06:57 AM
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RE: "Band of Conspirtors" - Lecture on Assassination Novel
Betty, Jerry Madonna also covers this topic in his book. If true, I think it's a fascinating possibility. The doctor who allegedly heard Bingham say this (re: Mary Surratt's secret) was named John S. Campbell.
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11-01-2013, 08:15 AM
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RE: "Band of Conspirtors" - Lecture on Assassination Novel
Most all of these lectures are recorded and put online. Mr. Stewart's talk should also be online shortly - both video and audio -

http://www.vahistorical.org/read-watch-l...-and-audio

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11-01-2013, 08:39 AM (This post was last modified: 11-01-2013 08:39 AM by Gene C.)
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RE: "Band of Conspirtors" - Lecture on Assassination Novel
Thanks for posting that link. Some interesting presentations to watch in the next few weeks.

Have any favorites?

So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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11-01-2013, 08:49 AM
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RE: "Band of Conspirtors" - Lecture on Assassination Novel
No problem, Gene.

These lectures are great -

I like the 1811 Richmond Theatre Fire and of course, Mr. David Keehn's lecture on the Knights of the Golden Circle - I'm currently reading the book -

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