Comprehending the Booth Bombshell

We had little time in our last Chronicle to absorb the implications of Booth's successful escape and the village it took to kill a president. It is time to reflect upon the seemingly irreconcilable juxtapositions implied by the assassination.

To be clear, John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's killer, escaped capture. The fairy tale told about Garret's Farm and barn was a deception to take the public's attention from the murder and to let it die a deserved death. The man killed at the farm was John Boyd. The body was disposed with the swiftest dispatch by men who were completely under Edwin Stanton's control, many of whom owed their careers and prominence to him. Many private and public persons expressed doubts about the identification of the corpse, but the very powerful Stanton and the Radical Republicans could easily ignore the screamers.

Thanks to Dr Arnold's research, we know that a military convoy was stationed outside the Navy Yard bridge which facilitated Booth's escape. Initial vectors of search were misdirected to the north and any which way but south. However, all of a sudden, a 25 man mounted infantry unit miraculously found "Booth", killed him, and moved on with the rest of the cover-up.

In Arnold's telling, the Garrett sons, Booth, and Stanton and his army were accomplices in the assassination of Lincoln. Booth, who was an intelligence officer in the Confederacy, implicates the Southern leadership although we have to take care where to assign the responsibility in that government - most notably Judah Benjamin who was a Rothschild agent.

It may seem odd that both Union and Confederate forces would be allied in the removal of Lincoln from office. On the one hand, Lincoln had spoken clearly about restoring the Confederate states to full statehood with alacrity. As such he would have been the South's best friend in contrast to the Radical Republicans who were hellbent on imposing a draconian brutal revenge from which the former Confederate states would never recover.

So why would the Confederates take the chance of removing Lincoln? Johnson had not made many pro South speeches or noises, and though from Tennessee himself, seemed much more aligned with the Radicals. I suspect that private assurances were made by Johnson to the Confederates that he would continue Lincoln's policies, thus assuring the Confederates that they could exact revenge for Lincoln's brutalities and not lose any of his lenient policies.

On the other hand, Stanton was a power mad psychopath who saw himself as the rightful president if not Caesar. He was the point man for the plutocratic industrialists who had put Lincoln into office to destroy the South because of its advocacy of low tariffs which were inimical to the protectionist policies they favored. Stanton was the operational director of the assassination. Northern powers saw him as the man to eliminate Lincoln's conciliatory policies. With Lincoln gone, they could continue to plunder and rape the South.

The man in the middle was the duplicitous Andrew Johnson who played both sides against the middle. Some historians have argued that Johnson had nothing to do with the assassination because of the hostility he endured from Stanton and Congress which was firmly under the control of radicals. But I dismiss this idea as bit too idealistic.

Johnson and Booth knew each other quite well and had a close relationship going back several years when the actor was in Tennessee. Booth's visit to Johnson at his his hotel indicates the closeness and was doubtless a signal regarding the assassination. Johnson was the only man who had contacts with Booth and could act as his handler, namely to launch the operation against Lincoln. As an insider in Lincoln's administration, he had contact with Seward and would be able to act as the liaison between Union and Confederate operatives.

Johnson's master plan was to remove Lincoln which assuaged the Confederates, and gratified Stanton and the plutocrats. Once the evidence of the murder was buried, and innocent men and women were murdered to serve as patsies and Oswald would later say, Johnson could consolidate power, and push Stanton aside, an action which nearly cost him the presidency.

Yet Johnson prevailed, rid himself of Stanton, and followed as much of Lincoln's policies as he could, though he was clearly stymied by the very powerful Radical Republicans. Congress overrode Johnson's vetoes with the ease of a hot knife through butter.

One of Stanton's cronies, the once all powerful Lafayette Baker, revealed the tryst in a  poem he wrote in the margins of an obscure British military journal. The encrypted message was decoded in the late 1950s or early 1960s which disclosed that a couple of dozen very powerful private and public persons were behind the assassination. Most telling was his exposure of Booth, Stanton, and Johnson as co-conspirators.

When Baker revealed the Booth diary two years after the assassination trials, Stanton took revenge by poisoning the former chief security officer, a fact also discovered in the 1960s.

Stanton himself, we believe, was murdered under the guise of suicide, a topic we have covered in an earlier Chronicle.

Lincoln's assassination was not the work of a lone nut. Removing a head of state is never so easy. There are way too many moving parts which have to be lubed and managed, and Lincoln's case was no different.

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Lafayette Baker's Secret Confession

The old saying, the truth will out, is so apropos in the case of Lafayette Baker (1828-1868) who left a coded message which, when deciphered, revealed the ring leaders of the conspiracy to murder Abraham Lincoln.

Ray Neff was an amateur historian whose day job was a professor at Indiana Status University. In the 1960s he uncovered a coded message from Baker who was at one point during the Civil War head of the National Police Detective Bureau. Much of Baker's prominence during the Civil War and later owed to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton (1814-1869) with whom he had a love-hate relationship.

Neff decoded the message whose version we publish from Ersjdamoo's Blog:

In new Rome there walked three men, a Judas, a Brutus and a spy.

Each planned that he should be the king when Abraham should die.

One trusted not the other but they went on for that day,

waiting for that final moment when, with pistol in his hand,

one of the sons of Brutus could sneak behind that cursed man

and put a bullet in his brain and lay his clumsey [sic] corpse away.

As the fallen man lay dying, Judas came and paid respects to one he hated,

and when at last he saw him die,

he said, “Now the ages have him and the nation now have I.”

But, alas, fate would have it Judas slowly fell from grace,

and with him went Brutus down to their proper place.

But lest one is left to wonder what happened to the spy,

I can safely tell you this, it was I. (Lafayette C. Baker)

The confession is extraordinary on two counts. In the first, it is breathtaking that he would confess to being a participant to a murder of the president. One must assume that he thought that his encrypted message would never be decrypted.

On the second count, it puts to death the notion that Booth was a lone nut acting alone to murder the president. It clearly shows the vast, deep river of hatred many felt toward Lincoln.

But let's add a bonus count. This interpretation fits well with long standing suspicions of Stanton which historian Don Thomas describes so well in his book The Reason Lincoln Had to Die, in which he accuses Stanton as one of Lincoln's assassins.

The interpretation of the poem is obvious, though some have stumbled over it. Baker identifies 3 primary players, Judas, a Brutus, and a Spy. Without any more knowledge than we have provided, one could deduce Baker as the spy, and if that were too difficult, he admits to it in the concluding line.

Judas is very easy to discern as well, the give away clue being an allusion to Stanton's gnothic acclamation, "Now he belongs to the ages" (though alternative readings have been provided.) Thus Judas is unquestionably Stanton.

The final character, Brutus, might be the most difficult. At first we considered John Booth to be Brutus since it was Brutus who assassinated Caesar. Also, John was the son of Edward Brutus Booth, and as such fits well the description "...one of the sons of Brutus could sneak behind that cursed man and put a bullet in his brain..."

But clearly Booth could have had no expectation to be king, unless the brains of the conspiracy had promised him a royal prize for his actions - something which might have appealed to his delusions of grandeur. However, it is hard to imagine Booth thinking that he would be king "when Abraham should die" or that "...But, alas, fate would have it Judas slowly fell from grace, and with him went Brutus down to their proper place..." After all, the wide spread belief was and is that Booth died at Garret's farm, coming to a rather abrupt end. So how could he go with Judas (Stanton) "slowly" down to his place?

One could say that Booth's descent may have been his fall from a leading star, c. 1863, to his alleged demise in 1865, but Baker seems to imply a parity between Judas and Brutus.

The key to the puzzle is in the first line where Baker speaks of "a Brutus." Clearly Booth was "a Brutus," for he fits well the descriptions of the assassin. But he was not the only Brutus. We believe, with no adamancy or pontification, that Baker refers to more than one Brutus in his poem. Booth clearly fulfills the role of a Brutus, but we need another "a Brutus."

We believe that Andrew Johnson fulfills the role of the other Brutus. Johnson was certainly well placed to "be the king", having the most to gain from Lincoln's murder. In fact there was no way that Johnson could have gained the presidency in his own right. He had so many personal defects that it is a wonder that he even got on the 1864 ticket as vice president.

If Johnson is "a Brutus," then he was the leading catalyst for recruiting Stanton and other Radical Republicans into his orbit. As such, he is the one who commissioned Booth to "...put a bullet in his [Lincoln's] brain..." While Booth was the trigger man, Johnson was the puppet master pulling the strings.

There is much weight against this theory of Johnson being part of the plot. The royal battles which Johnson and Stanton fought against each other suggests that Johnson was the innocent bystander and victim of Stanton's egomaniacal drive for supremacy . How could Johnson be involved with someone who nearly caused his conviction from impeachment?

Perhaps the answer lies here, "...Each planned that he should be the king when Abraham should die. One trusted not the other..." Events clearly showed that each man did not trust the other. In fact Johnson caught Baker red handed spying on him at the White House, a fact which Baker admitted in his biography, but which he said was done under Stanton's orders.

Each man fulfilled "But, alas, fate would have it Judas slowly fell from grace, and with him went Brutus down to their proper place." Stanton became victim of Johnson's determination to dismiss him, and Johnson in his turn barely survived his presidency, and failed abysmally in his attempt for his party's nomination in 1868. Thus the two came to their "proper place."

Stanton died in 1869 possibly by suicide as we reported in a previous Chronicle. Johnson died in 1875 apparently from afflictions of old age. But Baker's demise is more mysterious. There are some theories that he faked his own death, fearing - we believe - that Stanton was intent on rubbing him out. 

The poem assures us that Baker, in fact, faked his death, because he tells of the fall of both Stanton and Johnson. Baker "died" in 1868, the year Johnson was acquitted, and the year before Stanton was finally evicted from office. The two scorpions in a bottle battled it to the bitter end - they "...slowly fell from grace..."

The world owes Dr Neff a great debt of gratitude for giving us the Rosetta Stone of the Lincoln conspiracy.

Reference

ed., Escape of Lafayette Baker, Ersjdamoo's Blog, July 18, 2015, (accessed: https://ersjdamoo.wordpress.com/2015/07/18/escape-of-lafayette-baker/ , 10/9/2020)

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Booth Did NOT Murder Lincoln

Every school child "knows" that John Wilkes Booth murdered President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. Unfortunately American school children have been taught myths, fables, and lies. Though no innocent in the Lincoln murder, Booth was not the trigger puller.

 

To find who actually pulled the trigger which killed the president, follow the link below to our new website.

http://www.americanchronicle.info/home/booth-did-not-murder-lincoln.aspx?ArticleID=53&tabid=514

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How Judah Benjamin Murdered Abraham Lincoln

The lame histories of the murder of Abraham Lincoln correctly identify John Wilkes Booth as the trigger puller in the Lincoln assassination, but they delve no further into the conspiracy which put the great president in his grave. We shall correct that omission.

 

In addition to explicating the murder of Lincoln, we should begin with the origins of the American Civil War which brewed for decades until it erupted into armed conflict in 1861. One aspect frequently overlooked is the involvement of the United Kingdom and France in the epic war, both of whose intrigues were indispensable to the ignition and continuation of the conflagration.

 

In 1859 Solomon de Rothschild toured the United States, taking special care to visit prominent politicians including "co-religionist" Judah Benjamin, senator of Tennessee, a man whom he praised effusively as "the greatest mind in North America."

 

In a letter to his cousin Nathan, Solomon urged him to use the family's influence throughout Europe to gain continental recognition of the Confederacy. One thing astute students of the Rothschilds know is that the family is all about money. If there is no profit in a venture, there is no reason to undertake it.

 

The family made its name by making sovereigns bow to its seignorage by lending them money to fight foreign wars, the ones with Napoleon being the archetype. Thus it would be nigh unto foolish to suppose that Solomon de Rothschild was not in the United States to find supplicants for the family's vast financial resources. We conclude that de Rothschild was establishing the financial basis for the Confederacy with the proviso that Judah Benjamin serve as his protégé in the government of Jefferson Davis.

 

Thus Benjamin was the Bernard Baruch of his day, wielding enormous power as the puppet master of Davis who could not have undertaken his war for independence without the aid of de Rothschild.

 

Other Jews who were involved in financing the Civil War were Senator John Slidell of Louisiana, Frederic Erlanger, a Parisian financier who gouged the Confederacy with heavily usurious loans, and Arthur Belmont who would be the Rothschild viceroy in the North to take up the Union cause.

 

Thus the Rothschilds practiced an early form of what would later become known as full spectrum dominance where they championed both sides of a conflict for the ultimate win-win jackpot. Lincoln, however, was too shrewd for the butchers of America and Europe, bypassing bankster financing with issuance of Greenbacks which were an interest free form of financing. This infuriated the New York Rothschild banksters, an offense which contributed mightily to his assassination a few years later.

 

While the Rothschilds were drumming up support for the Confederacy, their aim was to carve the United States into two nations which would make controlling them so much easier. The Czar of Russia, Alexander III, did not sit idly by while his enemies made imperial moves on the United States. Indeed many of Lincoln's decisions, including his controversial ones, were to preserve the Union at all costs in order to keep it independent of European powers who were puppets of the Rothschilds.

 

When William Seward, Lincoln's Secretary of State, recognized the danger of British and French support of the Confederacy, due solely to the machinations of the Rothschilds, he sought help from the Russian Czar who dispatched his naval fleets to San Francisco and New York where they remained for the duration of the war. With this check, the British and French decided to avoid further involvement in the war.

 

Later, to pay for the assistance, Seward bought Alaska in what was known as Seward's folly. The Russians sold what was to them a distant wasteland for money which helped recoup the cost of their military aid to the North. Seward may have appeared crazy to most, but he was crazy like a fox. Unfortunately it nearly cost him his life, and indeed cost Lincoln his.

 

With Judah Benjamin firmly entrenched in Richmond, he controlled Davis like a sock puppet. He served in succession as Attorney General, Secretary of War, and Secretary of State for the Confederacy, the latter of which is considered astounding in light of his disastrous failure as Secretary of War, a failure for which many sought to end his government career, including the Confederate Congress.

 

In 1861 the Confederate armies sought a quick victory over the North since in a long war of attrition they were sure to lose to the materially wealthier North. Thus it was a strategic imperative for them to win the war early, something which they could have easily accomplished at the Battle of Bull Run. After routing the Union army, Lee's forces could have handily taken Washington, but Davis, under Benjamin's tutelage, prevented an advance on the Union Capitol. This strategic blunder cost the South the war.

 

The large aim in standing down was to exhaust both belligerents by giving the Union time to regroup, hopelessly indebt them to the Rothschilds, and make the slaughtered victims easy prey for the vultures who would sweep in after the carnage. Taking Washington so early would prevent the realization of these lofty goals.

 

While Benjamin claimed that a shortage of supplies prevented development of follow through to the victory, this excuse has been debunked. Generals Stonewall Jackson, P G T Beauregard, and Wise would loathe Benjamin to their dying days for his perfidy in failing to take Washington. Even the Confederate Congress pressured Davis to fire the ostensibly incompetent Benjamin, but as the money lender, there was no way that would happen; so Davis reassigned him as Secretary of State.

 

When the war ended, Benjamin accompanied Davis out of Richmond to Washington, GA from which point he abandoned his sock puppet for Florida, eventually making his way to England where he served as a barrister for a number of years - most assuredly compensation for a job well done. In abandoning Davis, Benjamin showed his true colors.

 

Before deserting the South, Benjamin sought his final revenge on Lincoln. Few understand today that the murder of the president was a supremely well planned conspiracy, a fact understood by all at the time of the attempted wipeout of the US government in April 1865. Benjamin was also under suspicion as a ring leader in the conspiracy at the time.

 

Not only was Lincoln targeted, but so was Vice President Andrew Johnson, Secretary of State Seward, and Ulysses Grant. The effort to plan a conspiracy so vast could not have been undertaken by an actor out on loan, Mary Surratt and her hoodlums, and the treasonous Dr Mudd. No, this vast of a conspiracy required professional assistance, the type of which could only come from the Bank of England via the Rothschilds.

 

The Bank of England was the premier intelligence agency in the world at the time of the Civil War, and was the progenitor of MI 5 and 6. Their services were provided to the Confederate Secret Service to plan the execution of Abraham Lincoln.

 

Thus Benjamin was the conduit and perhaps mastermind behind the plot. Wilkes was just a pawn and actor in the great drama.

 

Benjamin's haste to leave the US was due less to his status as a war criminal than as a murderer of Abraham Lincoln. His burning of all Confederate Secret Service documents was surely to cover his tracks in the various black operations against the North.

 

Most of the historical narrative above derives from a fascinating presentation by Mike King as noted in the Reference section. We have added additional conclusions based upon our understanding of the Rothschild Terrorist Family.

 

While the Rothschilds failed to achieve all of their aims in the Civil War, they would come back in 1913 with a vengeance and accomplish more than they could have dreamed of in 1859 when Solomon de Rothschild first visited the United States beating the drums of war.






Reference

Mike King, Judah Benjamin: The Big Jew of the Confederacy, Tomato Bubble, July 24, 2015, accessed 7/24/2015

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