SATURDAY, JULY 24
I had breakfast out on the front porch as usual, then went on the internet and prepared the questions for the McHenry County Civil War Round Table discussion group and researched some information about the Lincoln Conspirators which was today's topic.
Drove to Crystal Lake listening to WXRT's Saturday Morning Flashback to 1974, my first year out of college and teaching. Too bad I had the meeting.
We had seven people at the Panera Bread store in Crystal Lake. And, our friend Frank even e-mailed his famed impossible questions in from down south where he is recovering from a sickness. Seemed more like the good old days. As usual, great discussion and quite a bit of it revolved around whether John Wilkes Booth was actually killed or was it a coverup by persons in the Union government who wanted to get rid of Lincoln.
The name Joseph Holt was mentioned quite often. There were three John Wilkes Booths according to this conspiracy theory: the real one who died as an old man in Missouri, one who passed as Booth on the run and one who looked enough like him to pass for a dead Booth when examined.
I'd never heard of this Booth Conspiracy before. Like any good conspiracy, maybe true but most likely not.
--RoadDog
LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE: LAW OF PROBABILITY: The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act.
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