Did you know in 1865, 41 days after President Lincoln's second inauguration, he was shot by a man accused of being connected to the private bankers?
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Lincoln vs. the Bankers
The Civil War was nearly over (General Robert E. Lee had surrendered just five days before Lincoln was assassinated) and the bankers' funding of the war would soon end as well.
Having already printed his own U.S. Notes, Lincoln warned the nation:
“The money powers prey upon the nation in time of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy.
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me, and causes me to tremble for the safety of our country.
Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the republic is destroyed.”
Assassin John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth was one of the most popular actors of the day and was also a member of the secret society Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC). KGC caused much of the tension leading to the Civil War and President Lincoln had specifically targeted the group.
Booth was connected to the Rothschilds through Confederate Secretary of State and fellow KGC member, Judah Benjamin.
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C. at Ford’s Theater.
Booth's diary
The manhunt of John Wilkes Booth was overseen by Stanton, who eventually went on to manage the prosecution of the various conspirators involved in assassinating Lincoln.
When Booth's diary was obtained by Stanton's troops, it was delivered to Stanton. However, the book was not produced as evidence in the 1865 military conspiracy trial.
In 1867 the diary was rediscovered in a "forgotten" War Department file with 43 sheet (86 pages) having been cut out with a knife.
Mary Todd Lincoln's suspicions
The president's widow reportedly detested Johnson, seeing him as a repugnant drinker. She wrote to a friend in 1866 revealing that she believed Johnson was involved in her husband's demise:
"That, that miserable inebriate Johnson, had cognizance of my husband's [passing] - Why, was that card of Booth's, found in his box, some acquaintance certainly existed - I have been deeply impressed, with the harrowing thought, that he, had an understanding with the conspirators and they knew their man... As sure, as you and I live, Johnson, had some hand, in all this..."
John Wilkes Booth was the son of prominent, wealthy actors and became one of the most popular actors of the time. Pictured, here, with his hand hidden under his vest—the Masonic "Hidden Hand" symbol.
Booth, a popular actor who knew the theater well, timed the shooting of the President with the biggest laugh of the play, which Booth had memorized.
Booth's diary with approximately 86 missing pages. Lincoln's War Secretary, Edwin M. Stanton, was in charge of the manhunt and trials associated with assassination. Stanton misplaced the diary for several years. After court trials and executions were over, the diary resurfaced.
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