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Roger Norton||||||||RJNorton@att.net||2006/08/02||04:27:09||Military Justice andNed Spangler||I wonder if Ned Spangler's sentence was what he deserved (6 yearsgiven; served 4). Although there was only a small amount of evidence against him,one key thing was that immediately after the assassination, there was a lot ofcommotion backstage. Jake Rittersback, who also worked at Ford's, said he tried tochase after Booth, but that Spangler hit him in the face and said, "Don't saywhich way he went."LBCRLBCRWriting in "American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and theLincoln Conspiracies" author Michael Kauffman notes that many years later HarryHawk (the actor on stage when Lincoln was shot) admitted in an interview that heactually said the words Rittersback attributed to Spangler. Hawk said that he wasscared, dazed, and confused during the uproar and simply wanted to keep out of anytrouble.Joanne Cole||||boulder||||joanne@kgnu.org||2006/08/02||14:22:53||looking for BrentGreer||Hi, I am trying to reach Brent Greer, who has posted to the mailbag in thepast. Thank you, Joanne Colep. zall||||San Marino||CA||pzall9@hotmail.com||2006/08/05||18:51:36||MaryLincoln/Dolley Madison||The item captioned 47111 asks about the Mary/Dolleyconnection. I suspect the connection is rather between Mary Lincoln's family andDolley Madison's sister who mmarried into it.Laurie Verge||||Clinton||MD||laurie.verge@pgparks.com||2006/08/05||20:23:13||SadNews||I'm sure that many of our ALO correspondents are familiar with and/ormembers of The Lincoln Forum. We just received word that the Forum's greatsupporter and treasurer, Mr. Charles Platt of Colorado, passed away todayfollowing complications from heart surgery. He will be sorely missed in theLincoln community.David Lockmiller||||San Francisco||California||davidlincoln@msn.com||2006/08/06||05:37:21||Response to "Lincoln Questions" of Today||"We are planning a Lincolnlecture series at New Salem State Park dedicated to continuing on the legacy ofLincoln by discussing current issues of social justice and equality, that Lincolnhimself would be interested in if he were alive today."LBCRLBCR"The strongest bondof human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting allworking people, of all nations, and tongues, and kindreds. -- Reply to Workingmenof New York, March, 21, 1864LBCRLBCRP.S. In the future, please capitalize at leastthe first letter in the name "Lincoln;" he deserves it.Kent Tucker||||Rantoul||Illinois||ktucker48@yahoo.com||2006/08/07||05:45:15||Big"L"||Yes, get the "l" out of here. It's a capital offense.Laurie Verge||||Clinton||MD||laurie.verge@pgparks.com||2006/08/11||12:52:38||TudorHall||Tudor Hall,the Booth ancestral home in Bel Air, Maryland, has been purchasedby Harford County to be preserved as a museum-type venue highlighting the richtheatrical heritage of the Booth family, one of the first true American dynastiesof the theatre world. Its role as birthplace of John Wilkes Booth will be asecondary focus.Randal Berry||||||||lanceheads@comcast.net||2006/08/11||17:37:27||Tudor Hall||Dang! ...and I was going to buy it and buy up all the horrible books written aboutthe assassination and store them there!LBCRFoiled again!Laurie Verge||||Clinton||MD||laurie.verge@pgparks.com||2006/08/11||18:48:54||MaryLincoln||Believe it or not, a MUSICAL, "The Strange Case of Mary Todd Lincoln,"based on her insanity trial, will have a limited try-out run at the York Theatrein New York City's East Side from September 5-17. The playwright is June Bingham,widow of Congressman Jonathan Bingham. I guess if Sondheim can turn "Assassins"into a musical, Bingham can do insanity.Cheryl||||||||||2006/08/14||16:33:09||||Does anyone know anything about HarryHawk--whatever became of him? He was the only actor on stage at Ford Theater whenPresident Lincoln was shot.Michael W. Kauffman||||Owings||MD||mkauffman736@comcast.net||2006/08/16||00:16:10||20736||Harry Hawk continued his career as an actor long after theassassination. He eventually retired to the Isle of Jersey, just off the coast ofNormandy. He died there on May 28, 1916 and was buried in the local cemetery at

the tiny village of Grouville.Randal Berry||||||||lanceheads@comcast.net||2006/08/16||22:07:07||Harry Hawk||HolyCow!LBCRWhy am I not surprised that Michael Kauffmann would come up with theanswer!LBCRJust goes to show folks, Mr. Kauffmann IS the reigning AUTHORITY on theLincoln assassination.LBCRHANDS DOWN!LBCRIMHO.LBCRLBCRRandal BerryCheryl||||||||||2006/08/17||08:08:51||||Thanks for the info on Harry Hawk, Mr,Kauffman.Paul||||||||||2006/08/17||21:16:12||Harry hawk||Wow Mr Kauffman-you are amazing!LBCRIf Hawk lived until 1916, how old was he when he died?David Lockmiller||||San Francisco||California||davidlincoln@msn.com||2006/08/19||22:48:47||What primary issues would Abraham Lincoln be interested in now?||OnAugust 6, I responded on the Friends of Lincoln mailbag with a brief suggestion toa posting by Jesse Sullivan on July 21. I choose now to expand upon thatsuggestion for the reasons that were stated in the original posting.LBCRLBCR LBCRLBCRReply to New York Workingmens Democratic Republican AssociationLBCRLBCR LBCR

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LBCRGentlemen of the Committee March 21,1864LBCRLBCR LBCRLBCRThe honorary membership in your Association, as generouslytendered, is gratefully accepted.LBCRLBCR LBCRLBCRYou comprehend, as your addressshows, that the existing rebellion, means more, and tends to more, than theperpetuation of African Slavery that it is, in fact, a war upon the rights of

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all working people. Partly to show that this view has not escaped my attention,and partly that I cannot better express myself, I read a passage from the Messageto Congress in December 1861.LBCRLBCR LBCRLBCRIt continues to develop that the

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insurrection is largely, if not exclusively, a war upon the first principle ofpopular government the rights of the people. . . . Monarchy itself is sometimes

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hinted at as a possible refuge from the power of the people.LBCRLBCR LBCRLBCRIn

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my present position, I could scarcely be justified were I to omit raising awarning voice against this approach of returning despotism.LBCRLBCR LBCRLBCRIt is

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not needed, nor fitting here, that a general argument should be made in favor ofpopular institutions; but there is one point, with its connexions, not sohackneyed as most others, to which I ask a brief attention. It is the effort toplace capital on an equal footing with, if not above labor, in the structure ofgovernment. . . . Labor is prior to, and independent of capital. Capital is onlythe fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration.Capital has its rights, which are as worthy pf protection as any other rights. Noris it denied that there is, and probably always will be, a relation between laborand capital, producing mutual benefits.LBCRLBCR LBCRLBCRLet them [those that

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labor] beware of surrendering a political power which they already posses, andwhich, if surrendered, will surely be used to close the door of advancementagainst such as they, and to fix new disabilities and burdens upon them, till allof liberty shall be lost. . . . The struggle of today, is not altogether for todayit is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm

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and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.

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Abraham Lincoln December 3, 1861.LBCRLBCR LBCRLBCRThe views then expressed remainunchanged, nor have I much to add. None are so deeply interested to resist thepresent rebellion as the working people. Let them beware of prejudice, workingdivision and hostility among themselves. The most notable feature of a disturbancein your city last summer, was the hanging of some working people by other workingpeople. It should never be so. The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside ofthe family relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations, andtongues, and kindreds.LBCRLBCR LBCRLBCR********************************LBCRLBCRLBCRLBCRIf we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could

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better judge what to do and how to do it. Thus, began Lincolns famous House

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Divided speech (Springfield, Illinois June 16, 1858). One hundred forty-two years

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following President Lincolns reply to the workingmen of New York, one must

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question where does this democracy now stand and whither are we tending in termsof honoring President Lincolns words of guidance that [t]he strongest bond of

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human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all workingpeople, of all nations, and tongues, and kindreds. LBCRLBCR LBCRLBCRAs to where

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we are, it is an undisputed fact that 45,000,000 Americans cannot afford health

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insurance. As to whither we are tending, in 43 states, workers who receive tips

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can be paid as little as $2.13 per hour if their tips bring them to the level ofearning the federal minimum wage per hour, and, for the last nine years, agenda-controlling Congressional Republicans (the party of Lincoln) have refused toconsider legislatively an increase in the current minimum wage of $5.15 per hour.LBCRLBCR LBCRLBCRAnd, when these Republican politicians finally did permit thisyear legislative consideration of the issue, they cynically tied an enormousreduction in the estate tax for the far less than 1 per cent of wealthiestAmericans to their acceptance of any increase in the minimum wage. Passage of theRepublican-sponsored take-it-or-leave-it measure would have meant that federal

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tax revenue would have been lowered by $268 billion over 10 years. LBCRLBCR LBCRLBCRIn his response to the workingmen of New York, Lincoln quoted from his annualmessage to Congress in December, 1861 as follows: It is not needed, nor fitting

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here, that a general argument should be made in favor of popular institutions; butthere is one point, with its connexions, not so hackneyed as most others, to whichI ask a brief attention. It is the effort to place capital on an equal footingwith, if not above labor, in the structure of government. LBCRLBCR LBCRLBCRThe

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party of Lincoln, in recent years, has succeeded in accomplishing exactly thatwhich Lincoln forewarned the American people: placing capital on a footing far

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above labor in the structure of government. But the Republican Party has not

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stood alone in not resisting these undemocratic efforts of capital. Every fouryears, the same corporate jets that fly into one major United States city for theRepublican national convention also fly into another major United States city forthe Democratic national convention. Both parties have agreed legislatively upon apolicy of laissez faire politics at these respective conventions with all rules

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of accountability to the citizens of the United States blissfully forgotten.Corporate chieftains are granted access and respectful hearings to our would-be

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elected representatives in this democracy in exchange for huge moneycontributions. LBCRLBCR LBCRLBCRThe effect of this pernicious political influencein favor of capital is not limited to our own borders. Both political partiestrumpet in unison the benefits of free trade. But from a practical standpoint whathave the actual details of this policy meant to tens of thousands poor Mexicanfarmers who have raised corn on their land for generations? Free trade for themhas meant unequal competition with corporate American farmers granted hugesubsidies by Congress.LBCRLBCRArnold D.Mackey||||Battle Creek||Michigan||FighterGlory@aol.com||2006/08/21||21:20:08||Mary and Annie Surratt||I am amazed that only a few known photographsexist of Mary Surratt and her daughter,Annie. The Surratt House Museum wouldappreciate the addition of any new photographs which may come to light regardingthese women. You would certainly think that photographs of Mary Surratt and herchildren would exist! There are several pictures of John Surratt that are knownof. There also seems to be few pictures of Edwin Surratt,the younger brother ofthe Surratt family as well.Please send copies of any photographs of Mary Surrattand or her daughter,Annie Surratt,or of Edwin Surratt to the Surratt House Museumor to myself at FighterGlory@aol.com Thank you very much! My name is ArnoldD.Mackey.Laurie Verge||||Clinton||MD||laurie.verge@pgparks.com||2006/08/22||10:38:32||Surratt Photos||As director of Surratt House Museum, I have corresponded with Mr.Mackey several times regarding the lack of photos of Mrs. Surratt prior to hertroubles and have expressed my opinions regarding her lack of access tophotographers, etc. We do know of two posed, professional photos in addition tothe series of her taken on the gallows. We do also know of several of young AnnieSurratt as well as ones done in her later years.LBCR As for the second, andoldest son, his name was Isaac Douglas Surratt, not Edwin, as Mr. Mackey states;and we do have one photo of him.LBCR While we appreciate the call for help,