Via Insty:
UT probe: another Booth wanted to kill a president
Dismissed for 175 years as a fake, a letter threatening the assassination of President Andrew Jackson has been found to be authentic. And, says the director of the Andrew Jackson Papers Project at the University of Tennessee, the writer was none other than Junius Brutus Booth, father of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth.Dan Feller and his staff solved the mystery of the July 4, 1835, letter to Jackson. The story of their investigation will be featured this summer on PBS’ “History Detectives.” More here.
It appears that many professional actors were wackjobs, even back then:
“His forceful personality was such that it attracted the crazies of the world,” Remini said of the same incident.
The elder Booth’s demand? That he pardon pirates, aka Terrorists of the Sea.
get your affairs in order Dan
This is the thread on which I will not comment. I will not comment on this thread. Please delete this.
The comment I mean. The post is fine, just, I can’t comment on it.
Don’t understand your comment, alp. Did I screw up the links again? Or have I gotten my affairs out of order?
I think he means the knoxnews title. I think I read it the same way he did.
Beyond that I can’t comment.
Well, if Happy’s not going to comment on this post, I guess we can just declare this whole thread dead.
Nonononono. You go ahead. Just, there be eggshells here I think.
A friend of mine had to get a chlamydia probe once. His description involved a very small bottle brush.
Way wicked hair.
http://www.knoxnews.com/photos/2009/jan/24/47516/
oh. Some people pay good money for that I think.
It’s just that you’re about 6 or 7 days late on your obvious obsession with “all things assassination”.
And for those of you that are reading along, I clearly did not join in on this discussion.
I barely knew Dan.
Way wicked hair.
and I detect a touch of Barrymore in that nose, don’t I?
this hair probably cost a lot too.
You can barely see the chinstrap.
Tom Cruise is into anime, who knew?
Is a primary staple of “terrorists of the sea” sea kittens?
And could someone tell me how to get my sea kittens to stop licking their privates…
Et tu, Junius..?
Al and happy,
Whikle I agree that any assasination talk is a few days late, at least by the left’s measure, I don’t think y’all need to worry about anyone interpreting Dan’s post or the comments on this thread to bode ill for the one!…
The parallels just aren’t there. Junius was threatening Ol’ Hickory with death unless he released the terrorist/pirates…
Everyone knows O!s gonna let ’em all go; he’s taken the first step to decriminalizing the Islamo-fascist’s acts anyway. By closing Gitmo and essentially declaring our previous policy of, you know, incarceration immoral, he’s sent them a message that there’s plenty of hope-n-change for them too!
Though, the same may not be true for his political opponents here in America…
I mean, if there’s any parallel to draw upon, it’s between Jackson and Boooooooosh!…
And the left’s more than indulged themselves in his assasination fantasies for the last few years; they must have had their fill…Or mebbe not!
“Remember the days when show business was … a business?”
Yeah, I seem to, way back in the day…Now though, it’s mostly a propaganda outlet for wealthy far left kooks and whack-jobs…
EXPLOITATION!, TELLING THEIR LIES!, DAMN THOSE EEEEEEVIL RICH PEOPLE, THEIR SALARIES ARE WAAAAAAAAYYYY OUT OF LINE!; THEY’RE SOOOOOOOOO OUT OF TOUCH!, OBAMA LIED, PEOPLE DIED!!1!1!eleventy!11!1!
Oh, and about celeb hairdo’s; get a load of this;
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article2141929.ece
Have a lovely day, y’all
It appears that some actors are prey to very extreme emotions all of the time. Something to think about before taking an actor’s views on any subject at face value without observing them first.
To clarify – Reagan was an actor, but had a long history of speaking and writing to judge him by. He could keep reason enthroned over emotion. Newman was another who also could keep his reason on top.
What I think is hilarious is anyone threatening Andrew jackson with death and not either ending up dead, or judged certifiably insane. The guy who did try to assassinate Jackson received a beat-down from the old man, and was judged insane and placed in an asylum. All others who called him out (or responded to a calling out by showing up and not fleeing to points unknown) ended up dead. Jackson is quoted that he regretted not shooting Henry Clay (a senator) or hanging John C. Calhoun (Jackson’s V.P.).
I think that 160+ years after Jackson’s death he would still be a dangerous opponent, and I think one of the new carriers ought to named after him, like the old Polaris sub was, because Jackson was such an incredibly bad-ass president.
Imagine a movie scene:
“The zombie Andrew Jackson is after us! What should we do!”
“Prepare our wills; and prepare to die.”
Even Chuck Norris would be afraid of Zombie Andrew Jackson.
And rightly so. Jackson once told an opponent that he could have first shot. After taking the bullet, Jackson killed his opponent.
I think I’m one of few who like (or actually watches) “History Detectives”, the premise of which is that someone has an item once possessed by a long lost relative that needs explainin’. Sometimes the item suggests a connection, or family lore suggests some import.
Well, okay, the item needs explaining, not the long lost relative.
That’s a nice idea for a show. Sometimes you find things what were not listed in other people’s estates what died earlier so you have no basis for it and so if you sell it you might could invite the IRS to open up that previous estate which would suck cause it’s not like you have any paperwork or anything from when that one was handled and if you do have paperwork it doesn’t really solve the problem of where that thinger came from exactly and so you’re like oh I guess we’ll just think about that later.
That’s what I call family values!
my neighbor got Chlamydia because he likes to go out with prostitutes. This is a very nasty disease.`”‘
chlamydia is so groos, my friend got one last year and it was very nasty;**
chlamydia is very nasty disease, you’ll get that nasty pus and infection~**