Season 3 Episode 8: The Abraham Lincoln Assassination Series - CONSPIRACY THEORIES

<p><strong>Season 3</strong></p> <p><strong>Episode 8</strong></p> <p><strong>Who Really Shot Abraham Lincoln at the Ford Theater?</strong></p> <p><strong>Bam!!!</strong> The other shot heard around the world. The Civil War in America had just ended, and all the major newspapers around the North and South began printing their stories. However, when the dust cleared enough to see, John Wilkes Booth was designated the fall guy of this historical event.</p> <p>Hello everyone, Sidney St. James here with my podcast on writing the <a href="https://books2read.com/u/mVwLVZ"><strong>Abraham Lincoln Assassination Series</strong></a> several years ago. Some of you have learned that I have got this niche of being able to go back in time "in my virtual time machine" and put myself in peoples' shoes. I did this many times in my genealogy studies and did this when I wrote the five-book series on the Lincoln Assassination.</p> <p>It was the evening of April 14, 1865. According to the Northern newspapers, the War Between the States had ended, and Washington City celebrated. President Abraham Lincoln entered the balcony at Ford's Theater to a standing ovation: a sign of a return to everyday life in America.</p> <p>The following morning, just a few minutes before 7:30, President Abe Lincoln was dead, and assassin <strong>J. Wilkes Booth</strong> became one of the, if not <strong>THE</strong> most, infamous figures in all U. S. history.</p> <p>But now, 157 years since the one-shot from a derringer pistol, conspiracy theories still abound in America. I suppose you can say it was one of the most egregious "fake news" cover-ups in all of American history.</p> <p>"What if I were to come right out and tell you John Wilkes Booth didn't fire the gun that killed President Lincoln? What if I was to say to you he actually died in Oklahoma many, many years later? What if I tell you the Secretary of War was secretly in on the plot to kill the President? What if I were to tell you the Catholic Church was knee-deep in all of it from the start?</p