/posad/ - Paranormal

A lot has been made of the weirdness surrounding the JFK assassination in 1963, but I've realized over the past year that there are a lot of weird details surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln which are not that well known. I genuinely don't know where exactly to talk about this stuff, because it's just kind of bizarre.

Firstly, let's talk about Simon Wolf. Simon Wolf was a friend of Abraham Lincoln. Simon Wolf was also a prominent Freemason, whose chapter gave allegiance to the Charleston, SC Masonic lodge of one Albert Pike. Albert Pike was a Confederate general and preeminent Freemason, whose official title was Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council, Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction from 1859 to 1891, and who was also involved with the Knights of the Golden Circle and, allegedly, the Ku Klux Klan.

Simon Wolf was a prominent member of the Jewish fraternal order the B'nai B'rith, and he would eventually become its president. Before that, he was a close personal friend of the actor John Wilkes Booth, and met with John Wilkes Booth "for drinks" on the morning of April 14, 2025. This little-known fact is detailed in Simon Wolf's 1918 autobiography The Presidents I Have Known: From 1860-1918, from which one of the attached pages was drawn. During the war, Simon Wolf was once arrested by the U.S. gov't as an operative of an enemy organization, a spy for the Confederacy. Some other odd details are outlined in the 2nd attached page, drawn from an Executive Intelligence Review article from May of 1993. I was skeptical when I first saw it, but the article is well-researched and led me directly to the autobiography, a source I had to consult directly just to authenticate what I had read in the article, whose contents I found odd.

After the assassination and the death of John Wilkes Booth, Lafayette C. Baker, the investigator who had charged Simon Wolf with Confederate espionage during the war, announced that he had had John Wilkes Booth's diary. Baker accused Edwin M. Stanton, the Secretary of War, of suppressing the diary's release. When it was released, Baker claimed that 18 vital pages had been removed.

Another odd aspect is in the circumstances of the death of John Wilkes Booth. Booth was ultimately killed while hiding in a barn by a mentally ill street preacher who had castrated himself with a pair of scissors in order to suppress sexual urges. That man, Boston Corbett of the 16th New York Cavalry Regiment, was later institutionalized in 1887 and ultimately vanished after escaping the asylum in 1888. It's unclear if there was a chance of catching John Wilkes Booth alive, and most of Booth's co-conspirators, who have largely drifted into obscurity, would captured and formally be executed. One of these co-conspirators, Lewis Powell, was given a legal defense which presumed his guilt. Eventually the defense argued that Powell, who could not remember his age or the country of his birth, was insane, a claim which was supported by the prison guards who had been put in charge of watching him after his capture. However, it was rejected by the prosecution and Powell was hanged alongside the other co-conspirators.

Weird, huh? There's a little bit more!