Read The Reason Lincoln Had to Die - the book theorizes that his own cabinet was involved in assassinating Lincoln because they did not want him to implement his plan to reconstruct the Union. Made perfect sense. It reminds me of how President Trump has been betrayed by his party and by gov't officials he thought he could trust. Thank God, the rest of it has not come true! Here's a blurb:
"In 1977 a document was discovered which revealed that no fewer than six Union spies had infiltrated associates of John Wilkes Booth months prior to his assassination of Abraham Lincoln. History writers since 1977 have failed to include the names, descriptions and roles of these secret agents, presumably because this information didn't seem to fit with the prevailing understanding of the assassination. This document was created by the War Department in 1865, but was hidden from the conspirators' trial and the public, and was believed to be destroyed. It was just one of many pieces of evidence deliberately withheld to ensure Lincoln's assassination would appear to be the work of Confederate agents. To the contrary and before two years had passed, every alleged Confederate mastermind behind Booth (Davis, Johnson, Surratt) has been found by courts and Congress to have played no role in the deed. Yet the Confederate conspiracy theory prevailed. What the public has known about assassination of Abraham Lincoln for nearly 150 years isn't history, but fiction, and an unsolved crime."
Read The Reason Lincoln Had to Die - the book theorizes that his own cabinet was involved in assassinating Lincoln because they did not want him to implement his plan to reconstruct the Union. Made perfect sense. It reminds me of how President Trump has been betrayed by his party and by gov't officials he thought he could trust. Thank God, the rest of it has not come true! Here's a blurb:
"In 1977 a document was discovered which revealed that no fewer than six Union spies had infiltrated associates of John Wilkes Booth months prior to his assassination of Abraham Lincoln. History writers since 1977 have failed to include the names, descriptions and roles of these secret agents, presumably because this information didn't seem to fit with the prevailing understanding of the assassination. This document was created by the War Department in 1865, but was hidden from the conspirators' trial and the public, and was believed to be destroyed. It was just one of many pieces of evidence deliberately withheld to ensure Lincoln's assassination would appear to be the work of Confederate agents. To the contrary and before two years had passed, every alleged Confederate mastermind behind Booth (Davis, Johnson, Surratt) has been found by courts and Congress to have played no role in the deed. Yet the Confederate conspiracy theory prevailed. What the public has known about assassination of Abraham Lincoln for nearly 150 years isn't history, but fiction, and an unsolved crime."