Chapter 12 1. Assassination of President Lincoln

On the night of Friday, April 14, 1865, President Lincoln, who had spent four years in the brutal Civil War amid hardships and crises, finally welcomed Confederate general Robert F.With the news of General Lee's surrender to General Grant of the North, the President's highly tense nerves suddenly relaxed, and he came to Washington's Ford Theater to watch the performance with great interest.At 10:15, the murderer sneaked into the unguarded presidential box, was less than two feet behind Lincoln, and shot the president in the head with a large-caliber pistol. President Lincoln fell forward after being shot.Early the next morning, President Lincoln died.

The murderer was a well-known actor named Booth at the time.After he assassinated Lincoln, he fled in a hurry. On April 26, the murderer was shot dead while fleeing.In the murderer's carriage, many letters written in code and some Judas.Benjamin's personal belongings, this Judas was the Minister of War and later the Secretary of State of the southern government at that time, and he was also a powerful figure in the financial aspect of the South, because he had a close relationship with the big European bankers.He later fled to England.The Lincoln assassination is widely believed to have been a massive conspiracy.Members of Lincoln's cabinet, bankers in New York and Philadelphia, high government officials in the South, newspaper publishers in New York, and radicals in the North may have been involved in the conspiracy.

The murderer's granddaughter Izola mentioned in her memoirs that Lincoln's assassination was related to mysterious figures in Europe, and that Booth had visited Europe at least once before the assassination.The murderer and Judas.Benjamin was close, and Judas was widely believed to be an agent of the Rothschild bank. To understand the real motivation and plot of Lincoln’s assassination, we must examine the repeated and desperate struggles of the democratically elected government and the power of money to control the national strategic commanding heights of currency issuance since the founding of the United States with a greater historical depth.