Hoover, Johnson and the '64 Election Click here to view media stream   Andrew Johnson    Gen. Gordon Granger Albert Pike During the Time in Question, Baker's Allusions to Shakespeare Were a Common Sight in Harper's Weeky Reconstruction and How it Works Time Works Wonders Romeo and Mercutio The Political Death of a Bogus Caesar Lafayette Baker's Handwriting Analysis Click thumbnail for full size A certificate of authenticity by handwriting expert Stanley S. Smith, Captain P.S.P.; regarding Neff's copy of Colburn's United Service Magazine/Naval and Military Journal, 1864; Part II, London. Parallels in the Lincoln and Kennedy Inaugurals Click here for  full photo. During Lincoln's 1865 Inaugural Address (Lincoln is in larger red circle); his assassin, John Wilkes Booth, watched from the balcony behind the president. Another conspirator, Lewis Paine, is directly under the white lectern wearing a broad rimmed hat (smaller red circle). RIGHT: President Kennedy's inaugural oath was administered by Justice Earl Warren, a California freemason and former Klan leader appointed by  President Johnson.  (Curiously Jack Ruby, Oswald's assassin, professed Johnson to be the mastermind in the assassination shortly before his death during the Clay Shaw trial.) Johnson, who would head the discredited Warren Commission that investigated Kennedy's death. In 1963, at least two Supreme Court Justices were tied to the Klan. Justice Hugo Black was also an admitted member.  Disclosure of Klan involvement in the assassination was sure to create the greatest revolution in Washington since Reconstruction.  The Senate and House of Representatives, in 1963, also had active Klan members (particularly Dixiecrats) whom stood to be purged with the public outrage that would be forthcoming. Most prominent of these was Sen. Strom Thurmond. Caption: "Southern Rights: What They Were" Pardon to Rebels, Vetoes to Union Men Caricatures from Reconstruction and How it Works in Harpers Weekly, 1866. Click images for enlargements "I have gone over with considerable interest the volume entitled "The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth" by Finis L. Bates of Memphis, Tennessee...The work contains very strong evidence in support of the old belief that Booth did escape and live many years after the assassination of President Lincoln..."  January 23, 1923, William J. Burns, former Director Federal Bureau of Investigation, whom was by then the acting director of the Justice Department. Confessed conspirator Union Gen. Lafayette Baker consistently made curious references to Shakespeare in his decoded memoirs.  Contemporary periodicals, particularly Harpers Weekly, employed them in political cartoons circa 1866-1870; lampooning Andrew Johnson, as a traitor and conspirator in the Lincoln assassination. Andrew Johnson's Opposition to the Civil Rights Act Harper's Weekly Lampoon "Andrew Johnson Returns to his First Love." A revealing  take on his civil rights policies can be seen in the right store window pane with the sign "colored kids for sale".   One of President Johnson's first acts as president was a veto of the Civil Rights Act in April, 1866.  It was in April, too, that Johnson invited Albert Pike to the White House, whereupon he was conferred the title of 32nd degree Scottish Rite freemason.  Just a few months prior to that, Pike was hiding in Canada, hunted by the U.S. Army for complicity in the Lincoln assassination. Johnson, however, soon pardoned him upon assuming office. Designed to guarantee equal rights to Negroes, the Civil Rights Act of the Radical Republicans hoped to nullify the repressive Black Codes adopted to by Southern states to deny economic and political power to blacks.  Its legacy of terror and discrimination would last over a hundred years. The Lincoln Conspirators. But apparently, none of the masterminds. Click here for an update. "Don't wish to disturb you. Are you at home? J. Wilkes Booth."  In an act that would haunt Andrew Johnson during his impeachment trial; just seven hours before Lincoln's assassination, John Wilkes Booth left a note at Vice President Andrew Johnson's residence that read "Don't wish to disturb you. Are you at home? J. Wilkes Booth."  Shortly after his impeachment investigation began, Albert Pike and Gen. Gordon Granger met with President Andrew Johnson for some three hours at the White House. Soon afterwards, when Granger was summoned  before the Judiciary Committee, he was asked to disclose the substance of that conversation with the president.  Granger testified: "They [President Johnson and Pike] talked a great deal about Masonry. More about that than anything else.. And from what they talked about between them, I gathered that he [Pike] was the superior of the President in Masonry. I understood from the meeting that the president was his subordinate in Masonry...." Clinton Lays on a Wreath on Andrew Johnson's Grave. Why? In early 1999, during his own impeachment, President Clinton (a DeMolay mason) placed a wreath on the grave of Andrew Johnson (Scottish Rite). The latter president was himself impeached for complicity in the assassination of Lincoln.  Edwin R. Stanton "As the fallen man lay dying, Judas came and paid respects to the one he hated, and when at last he saw him die, he said 'Now the ages have him and the nation now have I' But alas, fate would have it Judas slowly fell from grace, and with him went Brutus down to their proper place. But lest one is left to wonder what happened to the spy, I can safely tell you this, it was I." Laffayette Baker describes the fate of Stanton and fellow conspirators.  Brutus is an allusion to Vice-President Andrew Johnson. Amidst allegations that Booth's grave contained a patsy, and even as Booth's own dentist refused to identify the buried corpse as Booth,  the body was buried under tight security in a jail cell at the Old Penitentiary Building in Geeseborough Point  The key was given to Edwin Stanton. Booth was later spotted in such widely scattered places as Mexico, Oklahoma, and London after his alleged death.

"I understood from the meeting that the president was his subordinate in Masonry...."

Gen. Gordon Granger's 1866 testimony before Judiciary Committee regarding the Scottish Rite, during Andrew Johnson's impeachment. The man President Johnson was subordinate to was Confederate Gen. Albert Pike.  Gen. Pike was wanted by the Union army on conspiracy charges, having fled to Canada after Lincoln's assassination. He was then pardoned by Andrew Johnson, giving rise to charges of treason.

In 1957 Ray A. Neff of Gibbsboro, New Jersey, walked into Leary's bookshop in Philadelphia and purchased a faded, second-hand book for fifty cents. Unbeknownst to Neff, inside that dusty military journal was a profound and stunning confession from the grave of a Union General and traitor, Lafayette Baker.

Booth was not alone, and according to Gen Baker, did indeed survive.

And as late as 1977, the FBI, did in fact investigate the issue of JOHN WILKES BOOTH and his possible survival. (Recently the Bureau released 184 pages in PDF format: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.) According to the FBI,

"These records contain correspondence dated 1922-23 of William J. Burns, former Director of the Bureau of Investigation, concerning a theory that Booth lived many years after the assassination of President Lincoln. Also included are the results of a 1948 examination by the FBI Laboratory of a boot said to be worn by Booth on the night of the assassination and a 1977 examination of a diary belonging to Booth."

On January 23, 1923, William J. Burns, by then the acting director of the Department of Justice wrote "I have gone over with considerable interest the volume entitled "The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth" by Finis L. Bates of Memphis, Tennessee...The work contains very strong evidence in support of the old belief that Booth did escape and live many years after the assassination of President Lincoln..."  (see page 12, booth1.pdf )

In fear for his life, Gen. Baker wrote the aforementioned confession before he was fatally poisoned with arsenic in 1868. If someone today could forge this confession, he would have to learn two different ciphers, and then invent a time machine, because he would have to perform the deed no later than October 1872. The book itself is referred to in a Philadelphia probate hearing held October 14 and 15, 1872; when William Carter testified that Lafayette Baker gave him an English military journal in the days before he died, which Carter tried to decipher but couldn't, even though he was familiar with codes from his days in the National Detective Police during the Civil War.

Carter also testified that he saw Baker writing his coded memoirs in the margins of numerous books; the same which were the subject of the hearing, and that Baker tried to give him about a dozen boxes of books and papers.

When John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln, he was already famous for playing in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar", and the allusion to Booth is obvious-- he's "one of the sons of Brutus". Johnson, who was in possession of a letter from Booth before the assassination, is also one of the the "sons".  Judas was Edwin Stanton-- Lincoln's Secretary of War, whom at the moment Lincoln died, actually did say "Now the ages have him and the nation now have I."

Both diaries, Bakers and Booth's, gave parallel accounts of the assassination. Both implicated, even boasted of a secret government council (the Scottish Rite) which in the interests of the British Crown has bound a nation, the United States of America, for over a century. (Gen. Baker's coded diaries, incidentally, were written in the margins of a British military journal; Colburn's United Service Magazine/Naval and Military Journal.)  The coded book, its messages written in a sliding cipher, revealed that the true killers were led by Lincoln's most trusted military advisor in the Civil War: Edwin McMasters Stanton.

About seven years later, the modus operandi described in that book was revisited in the Kennedy assassination. The infamous Lincoln and Kennedy parallels, for instance, are uncanny until you realize it was almost a copycat murder. The Lincoln and Kennedy murders were both bipartisan coups; and many of the masterminds in both assassinations belonged to the same Scottish Rite.

This aforementioned international secret society, the largest, has its headquarters temple in Washington DC, and curiously, it presently houses the crypt of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike, a Tennessee Ku Klux Klan Chief Judicial Officer, Imperial Wizard and 33rd Degree Scottish Rite Sovereign Grand Commander.

Much like we would see in 1963 in the Kennedy assassination; in 1865 at least two newspapers would publish highly detailed stories of the Lincoln assassination several hours before it ever took place. Moreover, in 1868 Lafayette Baker would confess in his coded diary that at least three newspaper publishers were involved, through blood money and disinformation, in the plot to kill Lincoln. Thus we move from the publishers' lucky premonition to outright foreknowledge and complicity. This, too, was a betrayal of the public's trust which the mass media repeated in 1963, but continues to maintain-- particularly through the New York Times (JFK) and the Los Angeles Times (RFK).

As Anton Chaitkin wrote in the New Republic:

"A striking instance of the Confederate 'Lost Cause,' persisting and haunting the present century, is to be seen in the attic of The New York Times.   Iphigenie Ochs married Arthur Hays Sulzberger in 1917. He succeeded her father Adolphe Ochs as publisher of The Times, which Mr. Ochs had bought in the 1890s. Adolphe Ochs and his father founded the "Baroness Erlanger" Hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The hospital was named forJohn Slidell's daughter who married the Confederacy’s chief financier Baron Emil Erlanger...Adolphe Ochs had married Iphigenie Wise, the daughter of B’nai B’rith’s Cincinnati leader Isaac Wise..."

In Kennedy's case, intelligence agents in Russia read Soviet accounts of the Dallas ambush several hours before the hit took ever took place. By December, 1966, the KGB would finally determine Kennedy's true murderer, and they concluded it was Lyndon Johnson.

When John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln, he was already famous for playing in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar", and the allusion to Booth is obvious-- he's "one of the sons of Brutus". Johnson, who was in possession of a letter from Booth before the assassination, is also one of the the "sons".  Judas was Edwin Stanton-- Lincoln's Secretary of War, whom at the moment Lincoln died, actually did say "Now the ages have him and the nation now have I."

Baker's decoded confession in Colburn's United Service Magazine, an English military journal, was dated February 5, 1868 and read as follows:

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