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Eighteen Pages
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C. Fenway Braxton
Copyright © 2010 by C. Fenway Braxton
With all the theories why Booth killed Lincoln, and for whichever group, one would think the only thing certain was that Booth pulled the trigger.
Nothing could be farther from the truth!
Not only was the story of Booth's crime a fabrication, so was the tale that he died at a farm in Virginia.
Where did the story come from? Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War, created the story out of whole cloth but not because he was the ring-leader of the conspiracy to remove Lincoln as many have supposed. No, he produced the tale and the supporting evidence - flimsy at best - to cover his own involvement in Booth's plan to kidnap the President.
Yes, many people today know that Booth had formerly planned to kidnap Lincoln and use him as leverage in a prisoner exchange or, possibly, ending the war with terms more favorable to the South. Historians puzzle over Booth's abrupt change in plans from a simple kidnapping to murder at the last moment. No cogent theory has yet been brought forward. And the reason for such a state is that there is absolutely no evidence whatsover that Booth actually shot the man!
So, you wonder, who did kill Lincoln? It was his invited guest for the evening, Major Rathbone, who attempted suicide a few years later.
Why was none of this brought out at the time? Because the story as released was controlled by Stanton, and the story seemed to change daily until the trial of the conspirators ended the speculations.
The tale follows the actions of Booth in the week following the assassination as well as the story of a reporter in Washington, thrown headlong into the mix, trying to find out the truth of the horrible crimes that took place that Good Friday in 1865. The story he uncovers is far different than the one Booth records in eighteen pages of his "diary" - the same eighteen pages that were later found to be missing when it was introduced at trial.
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The Salem Project
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Geral Martel
Copyright © 2010 by
Geral Martel
The Federal Government has discovered a terrorist training camp actually hiding in America!
Previous agents sent to infiltrate were unable to discover anything. Apparently the locals shunned them.
New agents are trained to resemble the people already flooding there: small families.
Can the agents uncover the truth?
And can they do so without being subverted?
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After the Curtain
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L. Suzanne Winnow
Copyright © 2010 by
L. Suzanne Winnow
Ol' Joe McSteinburg is one of the most successful comedians in history. He rocketed to stardom in just two short years.
The problem is he is not a comedian, nor is he Joe McSteinburg.
He is actually a front man for the revolution, and forced to do so because of who he really is, and if the Feds ever put two and two together, he would be toast.
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