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FTR #691 The Confederate Secret Service and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 11, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Not a “lone nut,” John Wilkes Booth was act­ing as a Con­fed­er­ate agent when he killed Lin­coln. Booth was part of a vast under­ground appa­ra­tus assem­bled for the oper­a­tion, that included “the Gray Ghost”, Colonel John Mosby and two rel­a­tives of Gen­eral Robert E. Lee.


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