what are some conspiracy theories from the assination of abraham lincoln?

what are some conspiracy theories from the assination of abraham lincoln?

Answer by Kevin J
Lincoln was assasinated because of a conspiracy.

But here is a link with some theories.

http://home.att.net/~rjnorton/Lincoln74.html

Here is info on the real conspiracy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_assassination
http://thinkorthwim.com/2007/10/29/the-lincoln-assassination-conspiracy/

Answer by caddy
THEORY #1
ANDREW JOHNSON WAS INVOLVED WITH BOOTH

Approximately seven hours before shooting the president, Booth dropped by the Washington hotel which was Vice-President Andrew Johnson’s residence. Upon learning from the desk clerk that neither Johnson nor his private secretary, William A. Browning, was in the hotel, Booth wrote the following note: “Don’t wish to disturb you Are you at home? J. Wilkes Booth.” Browning testified before the military court that he found the note in his box later that afternoon. Did Johnson and Booth know each other? In the 1997 publication “Right or Wrong, God Judge Me” The Writings of John Wilkes Booth edited by John Rhodehamel and Louise Taper it is stated on p. 146 that Booth had previously met Johnson in Nashville in February, 1864. At the time Booth was appearing in the newly opened Wood’s Theatre. Also, author Hamilton Howard in Civil War Echoes (1907) made the claim that while Johnson was military governor of Tennessee, he and Booth kept a couple of sisters as mistresses and oftentimes were seen in each other’s company. Lincoln had essentially ignored Johnson after Johnson’s embarrassing behavior on Inauguration Day. Mary Todd Lincoln felt Johnson was involved. On March 15, 1866, she wrote to her friend, Sally Orne:

“…that, that miserable inebriate Johnson, had cognizance of my husband’s death – Why, was that card of Booth’s, found in his box, some acquaintance certainly existed – I have been deeply impressed, with the harrowing thought, that he, had an understanding with the conspirators & they knew their man… As sure, as you & I live, Johnson, had some hand, in all this…”
Mary Todd Lincoln to her friend, Sally Orne, in a letter dated March 15, 1866

Some members of Congress also thought Johnson was involved and a special Assassination Committee was established to investigate any evidence linking Johnson to Lincoln’s death. Nothing suspicious was ever found by the committee; yet a belief by some Americans that Johnson was somehow involved with Booth continued for many years.

THEORY #2
LINCOLN DIED BY WAY OF A SIMPLE CONSPIRACY ORGANIZED BY JOHN WILKES BOOTH
This theory has John Wilkes Booth as the mastermind and that all remaining conspirators, with the one exception of John Surratt, were either hanged or sent to prison at Ft. Jefferson. Among the books that have supported this theory are Clara Laughlin’s The Death of Lincoln: The Story of Booth’s Plot, His Deed, and the Penalty, David M. DeWitt’s The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and Its Expiation, and George S. Bryan’s The Great American Myth. The simple conspiracy theory paints Booth as a Southern patriot and racist who originally planned to kidnap the president, take him to Richmond, and hold him in exchange for Southern prisoners of war. When the kidnapping plans fell through, Booth turned to assassination as his means for revenge. The entire plot consisted simply of John Wilkes Booth as the leader of a small band of co-conspirators. In 2004 Michael W. Kauffman’s encyclopedic American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies was published. Kauffman paints Booth as a master at manipulating people, not as a stooge for others.

THEORY #3
LINCOLN’S ASSASSINATION WAS THE RESULT OF A CONFEDERATE PLOT
The idea that Lincoln was killed as part of a grand conspiracy of Confederates arose almost immediately after the assassination. Coded letters found in Booth’s trunk back at the National Hotel tied him to the Confederacy. This theory has undergone a marked revival in the past 20 years. In 1977 a statement conspirator George Atzerodt made before the trial in 1865 was uncovered. In it Atzerodt told of Booth’s knowledge of a Confederate plot to blow up the White House. The hypothesis of a Confederate grand conspiracy was detailed in 1988 by William A. Tidwell, James O. Hall, and David Winfred Gaddy in Come Retribution: The Confederate Secret Service and the Assassination of Lincoln. Tidwell supplied further evidence in 1995 with the publication of April ’65: Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War. (Another work which stresses Confederate involvement, but lacks the detail of the aforementioned books, is Larry Starkey’s Wilkes Booth Came to Washington.) Proponents of the Confederate grand conspiracy point out that as the Confederacy’s situation deteriorated, more daring and reckless planning was needed. Lincoln was viewed as a legitimate wartime target. This was especially true after the Union’s failed Dahlgren raid on Richmond that had been approved by Lincoln himself and was evidence of Lincoln’s increasing determination to take whatever steps were necessary to end the war. Colonel Ulrich Dahlgren was killed in the raid, and on his person several documents were found, one of which said, “The men must be kept together, and well in hand, and once in the city, it must be destroyed and Jeff Davis and his cabinet killed.” Lincoln had hand-picked Dahlgren for the raid, and the Confederate government now believed the Union president had ordered Davis’s death.

Confederate grand conspiracy theorists feel Judah Benjamin, the Confederate Secretary of State, was deeply involved in the plot to kidnap/kill Abraham Lincoln. He burned all of his records before Richmond was evacuated. Benjamin escaped to England, and he was the only member of the Confederate government never to return to the United States. He practiced law in England until 1883 and died in Paris on May 6, 1884.

The theory of a Confederate grand conspiracy portrays Booth as a rebel agent working to organize a band of men to kidnap Lincoln. When Richmond fell, the plans turned to assassination. First, there was the failed effort to blow up the White House followed by the successful effort to kill Lincoln at the theater. Just as Lincoln may have ordered the killing of Jefferson Davis and his Cabinet by Ulrich Dahlgren and his men, Judah Benjamin and Jefferson Davis were involved in the plans to kidnap and later assassinate Abraham Lincoln. The theory of Confederate complicity in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln is accepted by many of the current Lincoln assassination historians, scholars, researchers, and writers. The actual trigger for Booth’s actions was the April 10th capture of explosives expert Thomas F. Harney who was on his way to Washington to bomb the White House. Booth, knowing Harney’s mission had failed, tried to make up for Harney’s disaster by taking matters into his own hands and killing the president at Ford’s Theatre. For details on this theory see the articles entitled “Who Ordered Lincoln’s Death?” by James E.T. Lange and Katherine DeWitt in the June 1998 edition of North & South magazine and “The Lincoln Assassination Revisited” by William Hanchett and “Risking the Wrath of God” by Edward Steers, Jr. in the September 2000 issue of North & South. Confederate plans to blow up the White House seem to be confirmed by George Atzerodt’s Lost Confession.

THEORY #4
LINCOLN’S ASSASSINATION WAS THE RESULT OF A CONSPIRACY OF POWERFUL INTERNATIONAL BANKERS
This theory is that Abraham Lincoln was killed as a result of his monetary policies. John Wilkes Booth would be seen as a hired gun. In its simplest terms, the theory is that Lincoln needed money to finance the Civil War. Bankers in Europe led by the Rothschilds offered him loans at high interest rates. Rather than accept the loans, Lincoln found other means to fund the war effort. More importantly, the British bankers opposed Lincoln’s protectionist policies. Some Englishmen in the 1860′s believed that “British free trade, industrial monopoly and human slavery travel together.” Lincoln’s policies after the Civil War would have destroyed the Rothschilds’ commodity speculations. After the war, Lincoln planned a mild Reconstruction policy which would have enabled a resumption of agriculture production. The Rothschilds were betting the other way on high prices caused by a tough Reconstruction policy toward the South. Lincoln was viewed as a threat to the established order of things, and he was assassinated as a result. The goal was to weaken the United States so the Rothschilds could takeover its economy. An article titled “The Rothschilds’ International Plot to Kill Lincoln” was published October 29, 1976, in New Solidarity.

THEORY #5
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH WAS BEHIND LINCOLN’S ASSASSINATION
In 1886 an ex-priest by the name of Charles Chiniquy (pictured to the left) wrote a book titled Fifty Years in the Church of Rome which portrayed the assassination of Lincoln as a Catholic grand conspiracy. Chiniquy maintained that Jefferson Davis had offered ,000,000 if someone would “kill the author of the bloodshed.” Chiniquy wrote that the money could be offered, but that “…the Jesuits alone could select the assassins, train them, and show them a crown of glory in heaven…” Booth was the tool of the Jesuits. He was corrupted and directed by the Vatican. In 1906 Chiniquy said, “The President, Abraham Lincoln, was assassinated by the priests and the Jesuits of Rome.” In 1856 Lincoln had defended Chiniquy in court. Chiniquy had quarreled with his bishop and then was sued for slander by one of the bishop’s friends (the bishop himself having nothing to do with the complaint). A morals charge was also involved. The case was heard May 20-22, 1856, in Urbana, Illinois. Lincoln arranged for a compromise settlement, but Chiniquy interpreted the settlement as a victory over the church. He felt some Jesuits held Lincoln responsible for the settlement. In 1897 Thomas M. Harris, a member of the 1865 military commission, wrote a book entitled Rome’s Responsibility for the Assas

Who else was in the conspiracy beside john wilks booth in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
History homework

Answer by piratepoppet_savvy
Well there are more than one conspiracy theory…

http://americanhistory.about.com/od/lincolnsdeath/a/lincolnsdeath.htm

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lincolnconspiracy/lincolnaccount.html

Answer by Dave L
David Herold
Wiliam S Jett

Answer by El
John Wilkes Booth’s initial plot was to kidnap Lincoln and take him south, to hold him hostage and force his government to resume its earlier policy of exchanging prisoners. Booth had organized a circle of conspirators to help him in attempting this. He recruited Samuel Arnold, George Atzerodt, David Herold, Michael O’Laughlen, Lewis Powell a.k.a. “Lewis Paine” and John Surratt. Dr. Samuel Mudd also set Booth’s broken leg and was imprisoned for life as a conspirator following the incident, but was likely not involved in the plot. (see below). In time, Surratt’s mother, Mary, left her tavern in Surrattsville, Maryland, and moved to a house in Washington, where Booth became a frequent visitor. Prosecutors would later point out that this move coincided with Booth’s need to have a base of operations in the city. Booth attended Lincoln’s second inauguration on March 4, 1865, as the invited guest of his secret fiancée Lucy Hale, the daughter of John P. Hale, soon to be United States Ambassador to Spain. Booth remarked afterwards, “What an excellent chance I had, if I wished, to kill the President on Inauguration day!”On March 17, 1865, Booth told his conspirators that Lincoln would be attending a play, Still Waters Run Deep, at Campbell Military Hospital. He assembled his team in a restaurant at the edge of town, evidently intending that they should soon join him on a stretch of road nearby and ambush the president on his way back from the hospital. But after going out to check on Lincoln, Booth returned with the news that Lincoln had not gone there after all. Instead, the president was at the National Hotel attending a ceremony in which the officers of the 142nd Indiana were presenting their governor with a captured Confederate Battle Flag. Ironically, Booth lived at the National.
On April 11, 1865, Booth attended a speech outside the White House in which Lincoln gave support for the idea of voting rights for black people. Furious at the prospect, Booth changed to a plan for assassination: “That is the last speech he will ever give.”
From kidnapping to assassination
On April 14th, sometime around noon while visiting Ford’s to pick up his mail, Booth heard that the President and General Grant would be attending that night. It was a golden opportunity. Booth knew the theater well, having played there several times, the last time in March 1865.[8][9] Booth surmised that if he and his conspirators could simultaneously kill the President, Grant, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Seward, he could throw the Union government into chaos for enough time that the Confederacy could mount a resurgence.That afternoon Booth went to Maryland boarding house and asked her to deliver a package to her tavern in Surrattsville, Maryland. He also asked her to tell her innkeeper there to make ready the guns and ammunition that Booth had previously stored at the tavern. This exchange would lead directly to Mary Surratt’s execution three months later. At 7 o’clock that night Booth met with his fellow conspirators. Booth assigned Powell to kill Seward, Atzerodt to kill Johnson, and David E. Herold to guide Powell to the Seward house and then lead him out of the city to rendezvous with Booth in Maryland. Booth himself would shoot Lincoln with his single-shot derringer and stab Grant with his knife. They were all to strike simultaneously, shortly after 10 o’clock. Atzerodt wanted nothing to do with it, saying he had signed up for a kidnapping, not a killing. Booth told him he was too far in to back out.

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Was Edwin M. Stanton part of the conspiracy to murder Abraham Lincoln?

Answer by breynnmike
I dont think so…..

He vigorously pursued the apprehension and prosecution of the conspirators involved in Lincoln’s assassination. These proceedings were not handled by the civil courts, but by a military tribunal, and therefore under Stanton’s tutelage. Stanton has subsequently been accused of witness tampering, most notably of Louis J. Weichmann, and of other activities that skewed the outcome of the trials.

He was only guilty of witness tampering. He was never chardgede with the onspiracy and it doesnt even question if he was….

Answer by loryntoo
There are no provable connections between Stanton and John Wilkes Booth.

Answer by von Luck
I believe that Stanton was up to his eyeballs in the the conspiracy to kill Lincoln. He detested Lincoln and Lincoln’s policies, he was against a reconciliation with the south and
made a number of statements that were close to treason suggest you read ” Dark Union ” about the reason for the assassination and the role that Stanton and Booth played in
it

Answer by Moxie1313
I wish I could say I thought so, because I really dislike him. I don’t think he was, though. I do think that he made many mistakes in his attempts at finding the real conspiracy participants (including sending out a picture of Booth’s brother instead of J.W. Booth). And that the cases against them were not fair and shouldn’t have been held as military tribunials (since the war ended in April and the trials started in May). As proof, when John Surrat was finally found, he had a normal trial and was not found guilty, with pretty much the same evidence they had against his mom, who was found guilty.

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