# Was Abraham Lincolns Assasination part of a Greater Conspiracy?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-abraham-lincolns-assasination-part-of-a-greater-conspiracy/245935
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [May 19, 2004, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-abraham-lincolns-assasination-part-of-a-greater-conspiracy/245935 "2004-05-19T07:56:49Z")
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### Author:  [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2004, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-abraham-lincolns-assasination-part-of-a-greater-conspiracy/245935/21 "2004-05-20T15:47:37Z")
On the late, great TV series _Homicide: Life on the Street_ Detective Crosetti’s hobby/obsession was the Lincoln assasination. He conjured up some great conspiracy theories. The original poster should get the dvds for the first couple of seasons and learn what Crosetti’s ideas about Abe’ shooting were.
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### Author:  [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2004, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-abraham-lincolns-assasination-part-of-a-greater-conspiracy/245935/22 "2004-05-21T16:16:47Z")
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> Say, did anybody mention James Garfield? Not only was an attempt made to use a metal detector to find the bullet in him, but he was also a great tapdancer.
No, you’re thinking of Woodrow Wilson w/ respect to the tapdancing.
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### Author:  [@Kel\_Varnsen\_Latex\_Division](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kel_Varnsen_Latex_Division)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2004, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-abraham-lincolns-assasination-part-of-a-greater-conspiracy/245935/23 "2004-05-22T06:05:36Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> For my part, as an alumnus of Georgetown University, I would gladly see the Jesuits blamed for Lincoln’s assassination and for every other evil in which they might or might not have been complicit, and\*\* I would rejoice to see every last priest of the Society of Jesus hanging dead and bleeding from a cross. \*\* What good and decent person could feel otherwise?
Isn’t there a rule against hate speech?
bolding mine
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### Author:  [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2004, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-abraham-lincolns-assasination-part-of-a-greater-conspiracy/245935/24 "2004-05-22T16:57:08Z")
Struck me as a sports rivalry thing, or a college rivalry thing, or he wouldn’t have mentioned the university.
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### Author:  [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2004, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-abraham-lincolns-assasination-part-of-a-greater-conspiracy/245935/25 "2004-05-22T19:56:22Z")
> [@David Simmons](#):
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> However, there were also as many wild tales about conspiracies etc. after Lincoln’s death as about JFK.
Of course! Because Lincoln was elected in 1860, Kennedy in 1860, and there are seven letters in each last name, so since _obviously_ there was a CIA-Mafia-LBJ-FBI-Roman Catholic conspiracy to plant murderers on the grassy knoll, there _must_ have been a tremendous conspiracy to kill Lincoln, too! :rolleyes:
Clearly Booth, an army-trained sharpshooter, was just a patsy for the DAR. The _real_ shooter was standing on the wood stage of Ford’s Theater, on the glassy gnarl, next to the three bums.
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