Was Abraham Lincolns Assasination part of a Greater Conspiracy?

[zamboniracer]

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.

[Scumpup]

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.

[Kel_Varnsen_Latex_Division]

@BrainGlutton

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

[E-Sabbath]

Struck me as a sports rivalry thing, or a college rivalry thing, or he wouldn’t have mentioned the university.

[Fish]

@David Simmons

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.