Summary Of Why Was Lincoln Killed By Otto Eisenschiml

For the 153 years since the assassination of one of America’s most beloved president, Abraham Lincoln, it has remained a mystery the motive behind John Wilkes Booth’s famous murder inside Ford’s Theatre. In 1937 Otto Eisenschiml's Why Was Lincoln Murdered was published. The book created the theory that Lincoln’s Secretary of War Edwin Stanton was directly involved in Lincoln's death. Edwin Stanton was the mastermind behind Lincoln's assassination because Stanton rejected to go to the theater with Lincoln many times, his distaste of the southern reconstruction, and the group that took profit over southern territories and the elaborate plan for Booth to escape. This book creates many extremely plausible points that connect Stanton to the assassination.

Although Eisenschiml wasn’t a history major, an Austrian-born chemist and industrial executive in the American oil industry, he was the first to claim that Lincoln’s cabinet orchestrated the plot to kill him. Otto’s theory, as time passes since April 15, 1865, is occasionally rejected by historians, but is still valiant for being one of the conspiracies to be made and harbor its own book. [The two points were that he made were that Stanton had a motive: he was worried that Lincoln’s moderate proposals for southern reconstruction would let the former Confederate states off too easily for the carnage they initiated. Secondly, Union general Ulysses S. Grant had planned to attend the play at Ford’s Theatre with the President on the night of April 14, but Eisenschiml alleged that Grant cancelled when Stanton ordered him out of Washington. Further, Stanton had allegedly turned down the President’s request to have Major Thomas T. Eckert serve as his bodyguard for the evening. Following Booth’s dramatic exit from the theatre, Stanton closed all bridges from the city, except one – the Navy Yard Bridge – which Booth took as his escape route. Stanton also allegedly ordered that Union soldiers should kill Booth rather than arrest him. And, finally, investigators noted

Samuel Mudd, Sam Arnold, Mike O'Laughlin and Ned Spangler sent to the fever-ridden Dry Tortugas Prison. If had conspired with Mary Surratt and the others it would make sense to have them hanged in order to prevent the truth from getting out in a court of law. More of the points involving Stanton was that there was a mysterious alleged interruption of telegraph communications, secretly arranging to have Booth killed before being brought to trial, and the suppression of evidence by potentially removing pages from Booth's diary. Eisenschiml also noted the unreliability of John F. Parker who accompanied the Lincoln party inside the theater. He wasn’t by his side at the time of the assassination. The 18 pages that are missing leading up to the assassination in John Wilkes Booth’s journal may disclose the information needed to solve this long mystery, but they remain lost in