Oklahoma Town's Connection To Lincoln's Assassination

"Could a town in north central Oklahoma be connected to Abraham Lincoln's killer?

Oklahoma's connection to the Lincoln assassination is a fantastic story over one hundred years in the making. It starts with Booth's widely publicized death at Garrett's farm twelve days after he shot the president, takes a curious turn in Enid, Oklahoma almost forty years later, and continues to this day.

Did Booth really die at Garrett's farm, or is it possible he escaped and surfaced many years later in Oklahoma?" With Video.

Via Brenda, Belle Grove

NC Confederate Monument Honors Faithful Slaves

A Confederate Monument with numerous interesting inscriptions has stood proudly beside the Tyrrell County Courthouse in Columbia, North Carolina for more than a century. One of the top panels of the Monument honors "Faithful Slaves." This is a reminder that there was not a single major slave uprising during the War for Southern Independence, although countless Southern homes, plantations and farms were left in the care of black servants while the men were away at war. This was in spite of Abraham Lincoln's declared best effort to cause an insurrection in which the blacks would murder innocent white women, children, and old men while the able bodied men were gone. Tens of thousands of black men, both slave and free, were also fighting for the Confederacy - defending their homes against the aggressive Yankee invaders.

I've been told or read at least a thousand times that the North fought to free the slaves and the South fought to defend slavery. That's odd, because I've visited and photographed hundreds of monuments to the War Between the States and have NEVER seen a Confederate Monument that says the South fought to protect slavery, nor have I seen a Union Monument that says the North fought to free the slaves. And that's after visiting 3,055 of the 3,142 counties in The U.S.A.

Apparently, the myth that the War of Northern Aggression was all about freeing the slaves is just that - a myth. The historical records make it clear that the slavery issue was interjected into the war long after the Yankees invaded the South, motivated by greed and a lust for power.

Mao Protects His Atomic Bomb From America

Chairman Mao was determined to protect his atomic facilities from American air attack and used an effective method learned from Lord Dunmore, Nat Turner, John Brown and Abraham Lincoln. To foment black unrest and uprisings in America, Mao enlisted sympathetic black communists like Robert Williams, a community organizer and NAACP leader who advocated “US Negro liberation” and a black defensive war “in the face of white terrorism.”