Conspiracies and secret societies: the complete dossier by Brad Steiger & Sherry Steiger

Conspiracies and secret societies: the complete dossier by Brad Steiger & Sherry Steiger

Author:Brad Steiger & Sherry Steiger [Steiger, Brad]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Curiosities & Wonders, Social Science, Reference, Body; Mind & Spirit, Secret societies, General, Encyclopedias, Conspiracies, Criminology, History
ISBN: 9780780809215
Publisher: Canton, MI : Visible Ink, c2006.
Published: 2006-08-15T17:23:49.888000+00:00


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Lusitania

swore that Lincoln had been assassinated by

pected role in the assassination. Johnson

the Jesuits of Rome.

informed Stanton that his resignation as sec-

retary of war was accepted and had him

In 1897 Thomas M. Harris, a member of

removed from office by force of arms. Not

the 1865 military commission, wrote Rome’s

long after he left office, Stanton was found

Responsibility for the Assassination of Abra-

dead—according to rumors, by his own hand.

ham Lincoln. The accusations against the

Catholic Church for the murder of our most

It would appear that the mystery of the Lin-

beloved president have not dissipated with

coln assassination, like that of the murder of time. In 1963 Emmett McLoughlin’s An Inquiry

JFK, will never die.

into the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

claimed that Pope Pius IX may have been the

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instigator of the plot to kill Lincoln. McLough-Galloway, Joseph L. “Purloined Poison Letters: Fake or Real, They Raised Hell.” http://www.usnews.com/

lin writes, “On one side were dictatorship,

usnews/doubleissue/mysteries/dahlgren.htm.

slavery, secession, monarchy, European impe-

McLoughlin, Emmett. An Inquiry into the Assassination rialism, Jesuit chicanery, and a Church-of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Lyle Stuart, 1963.

dominated assault on the Monroe Doctrine,

Millard, Joseph. “America’s Greatest Unsolved Murder.”

all of which found spiritual leadership in the True, February 1953.

one person: Pope Pius IX. On the other side

“An Overview of John Wilkes Booth’s Assassination of were freedom, emancipation, Freemasonry,

President Abraham Lincoln.” http://home.att.net/

democracy, Latin American struggle against

~rjnorton/Lincoln75.html.

foreign domination, all embodied in the one

Rhodehamel, John, and Louise Taper, eds. Right or Wrong, God Judge Me: The Writings of John Wilkes person: Abraham Lincoln.”

Booth. Pbk. ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, As an interesting footnote or two to the

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enigma of the Lincoln assassination:

Tidwell, William A. April ’65: Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War. Kent, OH: Kent State UniMary Todd Lincoln went mad after that ter-

versity Press, 1995.

rible Good Friday night in Ford’s Theater and

Tidwell, William A., James O. Hall, and David Winfred was confined in an asylum for some time.

Gaddy. Come Retribution: The Confederate Secret Although eventually released, she never fully

Service and the Assassination of Lincoln. Oxford: University Press of Mississippi, 1988.

recovered from the shock.

“Was There a Conspiracy by the Catholic Church to Major Henry Rathbone, wounded by

Murder Abraham Lincoln? Emmett McLoughlin and

Booth’s knife as he attempted to halt the

the Falsification of History.” http://www.geocities.

com/chiniquy/History.html?200517.

assassin, married Clara Harris, the other

occupant of the fatal theater box. A few years later, he went mad, attempted to kill Clara

LUSITANIA

and their children, and spent the rest of his

life restrained as a violent maniac.

A number of historians still insist that the near-Boston Corbett, who received praise as

ly 1,200 lives lost aboard the RMS Lusitania

the man who shot John Wilkes Booth, went

were sacrificed to the gods of war in an effort to mad and was confined to an asylum.

embroil the United States in World War I.

Secretary of War Edwin Stanton was also

under suspicion as a member of the conspir-

The Lusitania was an ocean liner of the

acy to assassinate Lincoln. He immediately

British Cunard Steamship Line that was

began a movement to impeach Andrew John-

torpedoed by a German U-boat on May 7,

son, now the president, because of



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