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The Conspiracy Between John Wilkes Booth and the Union Army to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln Paperback – January 17, 2019

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The information in this book is based entirely on the eyewitness accounts in the National Archives and not on the newspaper accounts of 1865. The eyewitness accounts are far different than the newspaper accounts and for this reason were kept from the public by the U.S. Army until 1965 when they became available in the National Archives. The newspaper accounts of 1865 were based entirely on what Joseph Holt told them and could best be labeled "fake news". If you are interested in a factual account of Lincoln's assassination, this is the only book available. As an added bonus the contribution of the African-American community of 1865 to apprehend the conspirators is well documented. John Morris was a colored worker in Ford's Theater and their efforts are best described by his sworn statement " The colored people believe Mr. Lincoln to be the best friend that we had. I would go to the point of my life to find out the murderers". Again, this is the only publication with these facts. I have included the photocopies of the statements which also indicate that the Ford's were involved in the conspiracy to such an extent that Col. Burnett had Harry Ford put in solitary confinement. Read and judge for yourself whether the Union Army got away with the most infamous murder in the history of the United States.The only book ever published that records the effort of the African American community of 1865 to bring the conspirators to justice. Their affection for Abraham Lincoln was so great that they ignored the retribution that was certain for defying the government conspirators and seven African Americans were arrested and put in prison. This is the story of the assassination whose perpetrators were hidden for 150 years. The meticulous preparations of the conspirators are brought to light by the documents and evidence that was collected at the time, but obscured from public view in the national archives.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (January 17, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 406 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1792873581
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1792873584
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.92 x 9 inches
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I am a retired Naval Surgeon and while on active duty I was also an instructor in Advanced Trauma Life Support for the Dept. of Defense for 10 years.I have been on three Marine deployments and had other assignments which resulted in much experience with missile wounds and trauma and I realized that the published accounts of Lincoln's assassination were medically incorrect. I researched the National Archives for actual eyewitness accounts which confirmed my suspicions. It has taken about 20 years to collect this and publish it.

Captain Robert E. Arnold, M.D. USNRR.

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  • M. Ann Martin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible Research tells the Real Story!
    Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2017
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    Dr. Arnold's amazing book holds so may startling revelations. His incredible research yielded new details any history buff will find fascinating. I thought his unique perspective as a physician (scientist) and avid historian is one of the major reasons this book is such a compelling read.

    Dr. Arnold makes it so clear that Booth was the lone assassin of Lincoln but he gives us detail after substantiated detail that shows a vast conspiracy behind the assassination. Major case in point: the involvement of the Ford family in this gruesome deed. Members of the Ford family readied the theatre box for Booth's entry by boring a hole in the door to allow for Booth's shot (later, Harry C. Ford actually admitted to having this hole bored!), then carefully arranged the seating of Lincoln so that his head was directly in front of the hole. Finally, the Fords provided the "get-away horse" for Booth following the crime. I had never heard of anyone saying that the Ford family was involved in Lincoln's assassination until I read Dr. Arnold's meticulous research into what actually happened. Furthermore, Major Stewart, often cited as a hero, was instead a conspirator, as revealed by Dr. Arnold. In fact, Stewart almost single-handedly gave Booth the time to escape by closing and blocking the theatre door to the alley, thereby allowing Booth plenty of time to mount his horse and ride away.

    Dr. Arnold shows us that the conspiracy circle widened to include countless others who helped Booth escape and disguised what actually happened at each step along the way.

    Arnold's book holds page after page of photocopies of personal letters, court documents, etc., each adding full credibility to his detailed re-telling of this significant story in our historical past. I highly recommend reading this book to learn what really happened before, during and after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. It is a thoroughly fascinating account.
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  • Kelly Curry
    5.0 out of 5 stars A number of figures close to Lincoln in his Cabinet felt that he was likely to treat the defeated Southerners much too kindly an
    Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2017
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    Review By Hiram C. Polk, Jr., MD:
    Dr. Robert Arnold is a long fixture in Louisville medicine sandwiched between a very successful Naval Reserve career. Dr. Arnold was credited with the most effective handbook for snakes and the management of snakebites in the late 1970’s. He then retired to a remarkable series of inquiries into the real truths about Abraham Lincoln’s assassination and what ultimately happened to his assailant, John Wilkes Booth.

    Fascinatingly, given all the attention that has been paid to the sundry conspiracy theories around the murder of President Kennedy, very little has been done or written about this similar assassination.

    In more than ten years of work and numerous visits to the National Archives Museum in Washington, Dr. Arnold has constructed a plausible, and I believe reasonable discussion of high level conspiracy within the government, outside the government, and vast confusion among the military at the end of the Civil War, which was the time of Lincoln’s assassination. In fact, Dr. Arnold proposes that there was conspiracy between Booth and the Union Army generals, who had expected a substantial and meaningful control, perhaps as governor of each state in the now defeated Confederacy. A number of figures close to Lincoln in his Cabinet felt that he was likely to treat the defeated Southerners much too kindly and felt that he would be better removed and replaced by a more pliant Vice President, Andrew Johnson.

    As if those sets of alleged conspiracies are not enough, the team also involved what was a still viable Confederate underground working in the Washington DC area.

    These tales are small compared to the elaborate escape of Booth from Ford’s Theatre. He was injured and that plays a significant role in Dr. Arnold’s theory, and I think supported by the interesting fact that Booth escaped, ultimately going by sea from the Chesapeake River around the east coast of the United States, then up across the Gulf of Mexico to land somewhere on the Texas coast. Interestingly, Booth remained more or less anonymous but did develop a close and essential working relationship with an attorney in Texas, who ultimately moved back to Memphis, TN. Booth was said to have considerable money in hand and lived well without visible means of support. This path then leads to his ultimate death of natural causes in Oklahoma. He was then embalmed by the local funeral home, as was the case in those days. His body, still at that time unknown, exhibited in the storefront for the mortuary. His friend and attorney counsel came to claim the body, paid the fees, and had some role in the amazing thing, at least until 1905, in having Booth’s body exhibited at a variety of state, regional, and local fairs. “Pay 10 cents to see the body of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln!” The body’s ultimate resting site was not disclosed and is probably unknown.

    The even more curious story revolves around a person who was said to be Booth, murdered, and burnt beyond recognition, according to his autopsy, which was very brief and desultory. Another person of the same age, allegedly a Confederate sympathizer, was working his way through the Washington area, staying strictly in the Virginia suburbs, when some group of the conspirators, involving several medium and local level Union Army officers, realized that Booth had probable gone from the area and chose to make this individual a substitute trophy. The final and exact events of this young man’s life are not clear, but he was shot from a very curious angle in his vertebral column. His cervical vertebra became a cornerstone of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Presumably, after he was shot, the barn was burned, creating a corpse that was charred and not able to be differentiated from Booth himself. His body was brought back to Washington with full military honors, the autopsy carried out, and the individual buried.

    These amazing trails are told very lucidly by Dr. Arnold and provide a very interesting examination of misconduct, misdeeds, and mistrust among the highest levels of government, such as may or may not have existed in Washington in recent years. It is a compelling read and has recently been updated with additional information in 2017 by Dr. Arnold.

    Submitted by: Hiram C. Polk, Jr., M.D.
    Ben A. Reid, Sr. Professor of Surgery Emeritus
    Commissioner of Public Health, Kentucky
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Read this book !!!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2017
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    I loved this book! The information is so detailed and I read things that have been hidden from the public for decades. Until I read this book, I had never known about the extraordinary amount of secrecy surronding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The trial was behind closed doors, which didn't surprise me: America has a history ridden with government secrecy (i.e. watergate). The secretaries were sworn to silence, and the newspapers were only given a short synopsis each day. After the trial, all of the testimonies, letters, telegrams, and exhibits were locked up for a hundred years-- again, not surprising. As a result, the nature of the assassination, and details revelatory of that nature, could not be told in schools, could not be analyzed by historians, and could not be remembered as the tragedy it was.
    One example of secrecy is that the testimony of Dr. Mudd, Col. Everton Conger, William Rollins, Dr. John Fredrick May and Dr. Stewart prove that the man killed in Richards Garrett's barn was not Booth. It would be simple to prove this one way or the other by a forensic analysis of the body but the government has never allowed the body to be exhumed. If you want the facts about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, this is the book.
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