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“The Lincoln Assassination & Some Civil War Facts” 

Handout #1 // February 4, 2006

 Here are some facts about the Lincoln Assassination and the American Civil War of 1861-1865 that generally are not included in many American history textbooks or encyclopedias:

• Lincoln was not the only target of the assassins – others in his Administration also were, such as Secretary of State William H. Seward (who was stabbed, but survived).
• Shortly after the assassination of President Lincoln, a 12-man U.S. military commission tried and convicted eight of the conspirators involved in this vile assassination.
• Four of the eight convicted conspirators were hung by the neck until dead.
• Roman Catholic priests (e.g., Boucher, La Pierre, etc.) helped one of the conspirators, John Harrison Surratt, to escape first to Canada, then to England, and later on to Rome, where he became a member of the pope’s Zouaves military (i.e., bodyguard) unit.
• U.S. officials tracked down John Harrison Surratt overseas, and brought him back for civil trial in Washington, D.C.   The trial took place in 1867.
• Roman Catholic Jesuit priests from Georgetown, through their private conversations with the Catholic members of the jury, ensured that John Surratt (despite lots of evidence proving his guilt) would not be convicted. (Surratt died in Baltimore, Maryland in 1916.)
• The U.S. government broke all diplomatic relations with the Holy See (i.e., the Vatican) in 1867 because of the overwhelming evidence of the Vatican’s involvement in the assassination of President Lincoln.  (These relations were not fully restored until 1984.)
• Pope Pius IX openly supported the Confederacy (i.e., the “South”) and the hoped-for breakup of the Union.  This same pope in 1864 condemned both religious liberty and freedom of conscience in his Syllabus of Errors.
• France and England (and possibly even Spain) were preparing to intervene militarily on the side of the Confederacy (i.e., the “South”) – but failed to do so because Russian Czar Alexander II threatened that Russia would then intervene militarily on the side of the “North”.  (Czar Alexander II sent part of his Russian fleet to U.S. waters as a warning to France and England not to intervene militarily on the side of the “South”!)
• Most of the above-listed historical FACTS have been deliberately omitted in American history textbooks.  ((NOTE: Who has wielded such power over our mainstream media, and over the publishers of American history textbooks, that they have been able to keep most of this information from the majority of the American people?  Who (or, what institution) benefits from these “historical omissions”?  Cui bono?))

     Many of the above-mentioned facts of American history are covered in two excellent books (The Suppressed Truth about the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Burke McCarty and Rome’s Responsibility for the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by U.S. Army Brigadier General Thomas M. Harris).  Both books are available in a single volume for $14.00 postpaid.  To order a copy of this two-books-in-one volume, please make check or money order payable to Ozark Book Publishers and mail it to: Ozark Books // P.O. Box 3703 // Springfield, MO 65808.