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conspiracy
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Killing Lincoln
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- There are layers of proven conspiracy and alleged conspiracy that will disturb you.†
p. 1.8 *conspiracy = a secret agreement or plot
- There are layers of proven conspiracy and alleged conspiracy that will disturb you.†
p. 1.8
- Just before Lincoln's speech, as the president stepped out onto the East Portico, Booth's carefully crafted conspiracy was instantly forgotten.†
p. 5.2
- They met at Barnum's City Hotel in Baltimore, and after several drinks Booth asked them if they would join his conspiracy.†
p. 27.3
- Booth's meeting with Davis's men not only provided funding for his conspiracy, it forged a direct bond between himself and the Confederacy.†
p. 27.6
- Booth has told her nothing about the conspiracy or his part in it.†
p. 28.9
- He wants to tell her about his plans, but the conspiracy is so vast and so deep that he would be a fool to sabotage it with a careless outburst.†
p. 29.6
- Booth is part of a kidnapping conspiracy.†
p. 92.1
- The only reason he joined the conspiracy was that, in addition to running a small carriage-repair business in Port Tobacco, Maryland, he moonlights as a smuggler, ferrying mail, contraband, and people across the broad Potomac into Virginia.†
p. 134.5
- In Baltimore, he tried to convince O'Laughlen to rejoin the conspiracy.†
p. 137.1
- If, as some conspiracy theorists believe, Stanton wished Lincoln dead, why would he want to provide him with protection?†
p. 156.6
- In the hours to come guards will inexplicably leave their posts, bridges that should be closed will miraculously be open, and telegrams alerting the army to begin a manhunt for Lincoln's killer will not be sent—all happenings that have been tied to a murky conspiracy that most likely will never be uncovered.†
p. 167.5
- Booth had asked him to be part of the conspiracy and was turned down.†
p. 170.7
- William Crook is a straightforward cop, not one to search for conspiracies or malcontents where none exist.†
p. 178.9conspiracies = secret agreements or plots
- Other than the other members of the conspiracy, no one will be the wiser.†
p. 195.3conspiracy = a secret agreement or plot
- Suddenly, the long list of reasons why Herold wants to be part of the Lincoln conspiracy are forgotten.†
p. 200.1
- In fact, Fletcher will never see the horse again, for it will soon be shot dead, its body left to rot in the backwoods of Maryland—yet another victim of the most spectacular assassination conspiracy in the history of man.†
p. 216.9
- Atzerodt has a reputation for being dim, but he is canny enough to know that once he threw his knife into a gutter, the only obvious piece of evidence connecting him with the conspiracy was being seen publicly on Booth's horse.†
p. 236.1
- The detectives, thrilled at their brisk progress, are sure they will arrest each and every member of the conspiracy within a matter of days.†
p. 237.7
- Even when the stage is halted and searched by Union soldiers miles outside the capital, nobody suspects that the simple-witted Atzerodt is capable of being resourceful enough to take part in the conspiracy.†
p. 239.9
- But Baker is so fond of half-truths and deception that it's impossible to know if he is traveling to Washington as a sort of super-sleuth, handpicked by Stanton to find Lincoln's killers, or if he is traveling to Washington to find and kill Booth before the actor can detail Secretary Stanton's role in the conspiracy.†
p. 244.9
- He asks Dr. Mudd to loan them his, but the doctor is reluctant; secretly harboring fugitives is one thing, but allowing the two most wanted men in America to ride through southern Maryland in his personal carriage would surely implicate Mudd and his wife in the conspiracy.†
p. 247.4
- This is the sort of savvy, intuitive thinking that separates David Herold from the other members of Booth's conspiracy.†
p. 248.1
- But the twenty-two-year-old Herold, recruited to the conspiracy for his knowledge of Washington's backstreets, is intelligent and resourceful.†
p. 248.1
- An anonymous tipster alerted Washington police that the boardinghouse on H Street was the hub of the conspiracy.†
p. 253.2
- Less than three months later, George Atzerodt—the twenty-nine-year-old drifter who stumbled into the conspiracy and stumbled right back out without harming a soul—hangs by the neck until dead.†
p. 261.7
- When his part in the conspiracy will be revealed later on, the testimony will come from a non-white resident of southern Maryland and thus will be ignored.†
p. 270.5
- Secretary of War Stanton has personally taken charge of identifying the larger conspiracy that has grown out of Booth's single gunshot, pushing Lafayette Baker from the limelight.†
p. 277.2
- Her supporters say she was just a lone woman trying to make ends meet by providing weapons for Booth and his conspiracy and point out that she didn't pull the trigger and was nowhere near Ford's Theatre.†
p. 280.1
- Indeed, it continues to this day, as historians and amateur sleuths alike debate a never-ending list of conspiracy theories.†
p. 283.1
- Neither the photographs nor the missing pages have ever been found, casting more suspicion on Stanton's possible role in a conspiracy.†
p. 284.2
- Once Neff became involved with the movie The Lincoln Conspiracy and began promoting bizarre theories about Booth's escape and a later second life in India, he became even more ostracized from mainstream scholars.†
p. 288.9
- No one has adequately explained this behavior, thus allowing some conspiracy theorists to continue to wonder if he had a larger role in Lincoln's assassination.†
p. 289.1
- Dr. Samuel Mudd, Samuel Arnold, and Michael O'Laughlen were all given life sentences for their roles in the assassination conspiracy.†
p. 293.6
- Perhaps the most shadowy figure in the Lincoln conspiracy, John Surratt, Mary Surratt's son, could have been instrumental in reducing his mother's sentence by showing that her part in the assassination was that of passive support instead of active participation.†
p. 294.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(conspiracy) a secret agreement or plot -- especially to do something illegal or harmful
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)