The Unsolved Mystery of John Wilkes Booth
Did You Know - John Wilkes Booth was a 33rd Degree Freemason? Watch the 3 Part video below then check out the latest episode of the Open Homicide Podcast "The Public Execution of Abraham Lincoln" March 2025. Booth Survival Controversy - part 1 Booth Survival Controversy - part 2 Booth Survival Controversy - part 3 After the passage of 149 years, it doesn’t appear that anyone has ever thought to question why Booth, an intelligent and educated man by all accounts, would choose such a ridiculous weapon to take with him on his mission. The president is under armed guard, or at least he’s supposed to be. He’s also supposed to be in the company of General Ulysses S. Grant, who is known to always be armed. Of course, Grant has fortuitously opted to get the hell out of Dodge just hours before he was to have accompanied the Lincolns to the theater, but you shouldn’t have any way of knowing that, just as you shouldn’t have any way of knowing that Parker will desert his post. And there ...
