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William Ramsey Investigates

Mystery History Theater: Who Ordered the Hit on Abe? Featuring Vyzygoth aka Keith Hansen. Part I

William Ramsey Investigates

William Ramsey Investigates

News Commentary, News, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.3657 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm going to be. The This is the Olympic files.

0:50.9

This is a series.

0:53.3

And it was started by my being made aware by a listener of a book called Dark Union.

1:03.9

The subtitle is The Secret Web of Proleteers, Politicians, and Booth Cons conspirators that led to Lincoln's death.

1:11.8

This was written by Rayneff and Leonard Guthridge.

1:17.3

It's the first time I ever saw that John Wilkes Booth, who certainly did shoot the death

1:26.1

Abraham Lincoln, was himself not shoot to death, Abraham Lincoln,

1:28.7

was himself not shot to death at Garrett's Barn in Virginia when he was trying to make good as escape.

1:40.6

And this isn't a far stretch whatsoever.

1:42.7

And the reason why I start off with the Guthridge Neff book, Dark Union,

1:48.5

is because I think still to this day, they've done what I consider the best job of documenting what happened.

1:59.6

Now, there's scenes in all of this.

2:01.8

There's gaps in all the work that's ever been done on the assassination.

2:08.7

But I'm not so much involved with the assassination, which was, I think, pretty straightforward.

2:17.6

What took place at Secretary of State William Seward's house is another thing.

2:25.4

But still in all, what I found fascinating was that something like this could never get into our history books.

2:33.6

That booth did escape.

2:35.7

I kind of like let it go for years.

2:39.5

I think about it.

2:40.4

I mentioned it a lot.

2:42.8

But I just got interested in it again.

2:48.3

And also because of the amount of material that's available on archive.org,

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