Simply fascinating: The Booth family and assassinations

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  • LA Ute
    Receiver of Memory
    • Nov 2008
    • 19512
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    Simply fascinating: The Booth family and assassinations

    <http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/silence/archives/2009/01/ut_probe_anothe.shtml>

    “Dismissed for 175 years as a fake, a letter threatening the assassination of President Andrew Jackson has been found to be authentic. And, says the director of the Andrew Jackson Papers Project at the University of Tennessee, the writer was none other than Junius Brutus Booth, father of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth.”
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    • All-American
      Right, as Usual
      • Nov 2008
      • 15653
      #2
      Originally posted by LA Ute View Post
      <http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/silence/archives/2009/01/ut_probe_anothe.shtml>

      “Dismissed for 175 years as a fake, a letter threatening the assassination of President Andrew Jackson has been found to be authentic. And, says the director of the Andrew Jackson Papers Project at the University of Tennessee, the writer was none other than Junius Brutus Booth, father of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth.”
      With a name like Junius Brutus . . . boy, you're asking for trouble.
      τὸν ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα πλείονες ἢ δυόμενον προσκυνοῦσιν

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