Exploding the Official Myths of the Lincoln Assassination
by James Perloff
(henrymakow.com)
July 8, 2024

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I dismantle the official Lincoln assassination story in my just-released book Exploding the Official Myths of the Lincoln Assassination Paperback – July 8, 2024, thanks to digitization of handwritten 19th century documents, and with help from two intrepid predecessors--one alive, the other dead for more than 60 years.

Readers may be surprised at how much 1860s America resembled today's America, with a Deep State behind the scenes, controlled information, suppression of civil liberties, and secret agendas.

Among the questions the book asks--sometimes answering, sometimes just asking:

● Why, on a dishonest pretext, did Secretary of War Edwin Stanton deny Abraham Lincoln the protection he requested at Ford's Theatre?
● Why was Lincoln assigned a disreputable bodyguard who deserted his post shortly before the assassination?

● Why was the bodyguard not reprimanded, and his name virtually erased from history?
● How did John Wilkes Booth know he only needed a one-shot derringer to dispose of the President?
● Although many mainstream historians claim Booth and his accomplices intended to kill Lincoln's whole cabinet, why were the only ACTUAL assassination attempts made against the only two prominent men in the administration--Lincoln and Seward--who stood in the way of the brutal plan of Reconstruction for the South, devised by Stanton and the "Radical Republicans"?
● In what ways was the Presidential box at Ford's Theatre modified to facilitate the murder?
● Why did Washington's telegraph wires shut down right after the assassination?
● Why did War Secretary Stanton take charge of the investigation, which more properly fell under the Attorney General's jurisdiction?
● How did Booth and Herold escape Washington so easily via the guarded Navy Yard Bridge, even though there was an order to let no unauthorized person cross after 9PM, a curfew that had been in effect for more than two years, and that Booth surely knew about?
● Why wasn't the sergeant who let the two pass, in violation of standing orders, reprimanded?
● Why was the road that Booth and Herold took the only road Stanton left unpatrolled after the assassination?
● What did Booth tell Southerners was his real reason for leaving a card at the residence of Lincoln's new Vice President, Andrew Johnson, on the day of the assassination?
● Secretary Seward's would-be assassin, Lewis Powell, gained access to the home by pretending to be a pharmacy delivery boy--he knew the name of Seward's physician, and the house's exact layout. Where did he get his inside information?
● Why were the soldiers close to capturing Booth ordered to halt, while, at the cost of an extra day's time, a select detachment was sent from Washington, including two commanders who were trusted associates of Stanton's right-hand man Lafayette Baker?
● Why was the court-martial of Sergeant Boston Corbett--who, against orders, allegedly shot Booth--cancelled?
● Why was Booth's diary, recovered from his body, never introduced in evidence at the conspiracy trial, kept secret for two years--and when finally exposed, were 43 sheets (86 pages) missing?
● Why were Booth's alleged accomplices denied a jury trial, and disallowed defense counsel until approximately the proceedings began?
● Why were they continuously shackled with hoods over their heads before being either hanged or sentenced to the remote island prison in Dry Tortugas--west of Key West?
● Why was Mary Surratt hanged the very day after her sentence was pronounced?

Exploding the Official Myths of the Lincoln Assassination Paperback – July 8, 2024
by James Perloff
$13.95 paperback