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Who Really Killed Abraham Lincoln Unclear.

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The story that is written in history books states that John Wilkes Booth hated President Lincoln because of his actions to free the slaves and his desire to give them the freedom to vote.

According to history, Booth was leader in a heinous conspiracy.

However, different theories have been made as to who really killed Abraham Lincoln.

Some people believe that Vice President Andrew Johnson was involved with the assassination.

Others view the murder as a plot set up by the Rothschilds and International Bankers in retaliation for Lincoln setting up his own currency known as “greenbacks”.

Still others go along with the history books as they stand.

They believe that the whole assassination was the work of an angry John Wilkes Booth.

Who really killed Abraham Lincoln is not a question merely of who pulled the trigger.

It is quite feasible that his death was not the work of a single hateful man, but had larger political implications.

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Johnson Implicated

It was apparent in the days and weeks that followed the assassination of President Lincoln that Vice-President Johnson had known John Wilkes Booth prior to the murder.

Approximately seven hours before shooting the President at Ford’s Theater, John Wilkes Booth made a stop by the Washington Hotel, which was where Vice-President Johnson was living at the time.

Neither Johnson nor his private secretary, William A. Browning, were in the hotel at the time.

Booth left a note for Johnson, saying “Don’t wish to disturb you. Are you home? J. Wilkes Booth”.

The book Right or Wrong, God Judge Me: The Writings of John Wilkes Booth states that Booth and Johnson had met previously in Nashville in February 1864.

It was also stated that the two were often seen in each other’s company.

Some members of Congress also believed that Johnson may have been involved, and an Assassination Committee was set up to investigate the President’s murder.

Nothing directly linking Johnson to the crime was ever found, yet many Americans still believed he was involved.

Mary Todd Lincoln expressed her disdain for Andrew Johnson in a letter she wrote to her friend Sally Orne on March 15, 1866:

“…that miserable inebriate Johnson had cognizance of my husband’s death – Why was that card of Booth’s found in his box?

“Some acquaintance certainly existed – I have been deeply impressed with the harrowing thought that he had an understanding with the conspirators and they knew their man…

“As sure as you and I live, Johnson had some hand in all this…”

– Mary Todd Lincoln

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The Banker Connection

One theory asserts that, although John Wilkes Booth is the man who really killed Abraham Lincoln, he was merely acting as a hired gun for the International Bankers and the Rothschilds.

Lincoln needed money to finance the Civil War, so he sought the help of private Banker.

They agreed to lend him the money, but at an incredibly high interest rate.

Abraham Lincoln loved his country and did not want to throw the nation into a huge debt that they would never be able to pay back.

So eventually he was advised to get congress to pass a law that would authorize the printing of legal tender to pay for the war.

This gave many benefits to the American people. Lincoln wrote about the matter himself.

“We gave the people of this Republic the greatest blessing they ever had- their own paper money to pay their own debts…”

– Abraham Lincoln

This money served as legal tender for all debts, both public and private. This is how he financed the war.

He had planned to further clamp down on the private banking usurers in his second term. That plan was ended with the assassination.

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Never Satisfactorily Solved

This freedom from debt that Lincoln sought for the American people was a threat to the new economic elite.

They knew that the only thing that could threaten their sovereign power over the people was the ability of governments to print and use their own interest-free and debt-free paper money.

President Lincoln had to be gotten rid of, and John Wilkes Booth was the man for the job.

Still, some people believe that John Wilkes Booth acted out on his own motives and his own rage.

Perhaps even more theories will be presented regarding this mystery. Perhaps the truth of who really killed Abraham Lincoln will remain buried.

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