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Dave Taylor
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Historian studying Abraham Lincoln's assassination, John Wilkes Booth, and the Booth family. My website: LincolnConspirators.com
Also a Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, and classic cartoon fan. Husband to @dicejailjen.bsky.social
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Dave Taylor @linconspirators.bsky.social · Nov 10
Hello, followers! I’m an expert on the Lincoln assassination. I study all aspects of April 14, 1865, including the lives of the assassin & his conspirators. Addressing John Wilkes Booth’s dark radicalization in white supremacy and political violence sheds light on Abraham Lincoln’s life and legacy.
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Happy Birthday to Edwin Booth! Despite his success as the greatest Hamlet of all time and one of the best actors of his generation, Edwin forever lived in the private melancholy and shame of his brother’s crime at Ford’s Theatre.
A badge featuring the image and name of Edwin Booth. The text says “While forever haunted by his brother’s crime, the famous actor found solace in the fact that he saved the life of Robert Todd Lincoln at a train depot in 1864.” A photograph of Junius Brutus Booth with his son Edwin Booth at his side. An image of a long haired Edwin Booth. A picture of Edwin Booth taken in the last four years of his life.
November 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Lt. John Toffey was in the audience of Ford’s Theatre & then rushed to tell the news of the crime to his superiors. While reporting, a riderless horse galloped by, which Toffey overtook. It was later discovered that the horse had been ridden by Lewis Powell after his attack on Seward. #VeteransDay
A badge featuring the image and name of Lt. John Toffey. The text accompanying the image states “This Medal of Honor recipient witnessed Lincoln’s assassination at Ford’s Theatre and discovered the horse used by Lewis Powell after his attack on William Seward.”
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
linconspirators.bsky.social
Living in Texas means still having to cut the grass in November, but at least I can rep Green Mount Cemetery and Junius Brutus Booth while I do so.
Selfie of a man wearing a green hat with the words Green Mountain Cemetery on it and a black shirt featuring the likeness of Junius Brutus Booth, Sr.
November 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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joebarry.bsky.social
Excited to be published in the current Surratt Courier, the premiere forum on the #Lincoln #assassination since 1975. I introduce Joseph B. Stewart, the lawyer who chased Booth, and subject of my upcoming #biography. Read here: www.surrattmuseum.org/surratt-cour...
#history #skystorians #booksky
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Harper Goff painting in Feb 1946 Coronet Magazine.
November 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Fanny Seward is on this Lincoln Assassination Tour badge. She was an eyewitness to the savage stabbing of her father, Sec. of State William Seward, & others. She later wrote in her diary of the event, “Blood, blood my thoughts seemed drenched in it—I seemed to breathe its sickening odor.”
A photograph of a tour badge and lanyard laying on top of other tour badges. The image in the main badge is a photograph of Fanny Seward. Her name is at the top followed by the words “The 20-year-old daughter of William Seward, Fanny was reading to her father when Lewis Powell attacked her home. She wrote about the event in her diary.”
November 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I'll be speaking about my research on Edwin Booth, celebrity, and grief in Alexandria, VA next week and tickets are almost gone! If you're looking for something to do next Saturday, I can promise that you'll learn something new!

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Brother to the Assassin: Edwin Booth and the Rebirth of American Theatre
This lecture will explore the career of Edwin Booth, whose work was overshadowed by the infamous act of his brother, John Wilkes Booth.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
linconspirators.bsky.social
Did I stay up late binge watching Death By Lightning? You bet I did. What a great limited series about President Garfield and his tragic death at the hands of Charles Guiteau. I’ve actually seen the bottle containing part of Guiteau’s brain and his skeleton in person. #skystorians
Part of assassins Charles Guiteau’s brain in the collection of the National Museum of Health and Medicine. The skeleton of assassin Charles Guiteau in the collection of the National Museum of Health and Medicine. The skull has gone missing over the years.
November 7, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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[Broadside for the Capture of John Wilkes Booth, John Surratt, and David Herold] https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/283200
Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005
November 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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assassinationtours.bsky.social
At the end of a Lincoln Assassination Tour, all participants receive a “Lincoln’s Avengers” sticker, based on real medals given out to the leaders of the 16th NY Cavalry who hunted down John Wilkes Booth. Snag yours by signing up for an upcoming tour: lincolnassassinationtours.com/register/
A circular sticker of a medal featuring the letters “LA” (for Lincoln’s Avengers) in front of a background of scenes from the capture of assassin John Wilkes Booth.
November 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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I was throughly confused at first when my “Lincoln assassination” Google alert gave me a link about an upcoming Miss Piggy movie. But I’m always in favor of more Muppets.
November 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Edwin Booth’s saving of Robert Todd Lincoln at a train depot in 1864 is an interesting story, and I’m all for telling people about it, but don’t use generative AI for your illustrations. Otherwise you get images like this where Robert Lincoln has an extra arm coming out of his ass. #NoAI
A Bluesky post about Edwin Booth saving the life of Robert Lincoln illustrated with terrible AI art. AI art is theft and completely soulless and I judge you for using it.
November 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
linconspirators.bsky.social
I am a historian of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination and a former elementary school teacher. I love everything about #publichistory. I hope my fellow #skystorians 🗃️ and history enthusiasts will consider taking a tour with my new business, LincolnAssassinationTours.com.
November 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Closing off Halloween night with my tradition of listening to Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio broadcast, in the dark. Still as great and effective as ever: archive.org/details/Orso...
The War of the Worlds : Orson Welles-Mr. Bruns : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is the 1938 radio broadcast of Orson Welles War of the Worlds.
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November 1, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Happy Halloween, Doc. #PocusKadabra
Man dressed in a Bugs Bunny costume.
November 1, 2025 at 2:05 AM
linconspirators.bsky.social
My jack-o-lantern this year.
A pumpkin carved to look like Charlie Brown.
October 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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elizamreese.bsky.social
The latest edition of my newsletter "The Ties of Time" is out today. My current research has personal roots, and this issue was a very special one to write. I'd love to hear your thoughts.

elizabethmreese.substack.com/p/flesh-of-y...
“Flesh of your flesh, and blood of your blood”
After my brother died in 2017, my family received a landslide of condolences.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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assassinationtours.bsky.social
Happy Halloween! This is a rare carte de visite produced while John Wilkes Booth was on the run. It shows the outline of the assassin on horseback made from beasts and a devilish hand. The visage of Abraham Lincoln looks on from the clouds. This comes from the collection of the ALPLM. #skystorians 🗃️
A CDV titled “The Haunted Murderer: Where is he?” Showing the outline of John Wilkes Booth made from beasts and creatures.
October 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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images from a folder labeled "comics" gathered 1999-2025
(80/≆800)
A Silver Age gag cover for SUPERMAN: Page 56 (as numbered) or 66 (according to the file name) from DC's Elseworlds 80-Page Giant (thanks Kurt!) with art by Ty (the guy) Templeton and word concepts from Mark (parenthetical) Waid. The premise is in the image as well as the text, which is "What If Abraham Lincoln was Brainiac and Superman with a Robot Body had to be John Wilkes Booth to Stop Him?" The extra joke is that the assassination gun (not a derringer) is on an extendo-hand coming from the chest of Robot-Wilkes-El as his other arms pull back his coat and shirt. Beardy Green Brainiac is suitably alarmed in his seat at the theater. Is that Lois Lane as Mary Todd Lincoln? The world may never know. Superman Sez: SURPRISE, PRESIDENT LINCOLN! I'M STILL ALIVE!! EVEN THOUGH I NOW HAVE A MECHANICAL BODY... Superman Continuez: ...AND ONE SHOT FROM THIS DERRINGER WILL RIP APART YOUR SO-CALLED "PERFECT UNION"!! Text Box Sez: IN AN IRONIC TWIST OF FATE, THE ORPHAN FROM KRYPTON, HIS ROCKETSHIP FLUNG THROUGH TIME, AS WELL AS SPACE, IS ADOPTED BY THE BOOTH FAMILY!! WITNESS FOR YOURSELF THE TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES IN... "PRESIDENT ABRAHAM (BRAINIAC) LINCOLN VERSUS CLARK KENT, METALLO!"
October 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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You wouldn't climb John Wilkes Booth
October 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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I very much enjoy the @holocaustpod.bsky.social. I just ordered the book The Birdman of Auschwitz after listening to the newest episode. @waitmanwbeorn.com, I hope you might consider having @iknuppel.bsky.social on the podcast to talk about her book on Aktion T4:
October 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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In 1901, writer & Lincoln collector Osborn Oldroyd walked the escape route of John Wilkes Booth. During his visit behind Ford’s Theatre, he was greeted by some alley cats. Don’t wear down your paws like Oldroyd did. Consider taking a guided Lincoln Assassination Tour by bus instead. #NationalCatDay
An image of two book pages with digital alterations. On the left is a photograph of man wearing a hat, satchel, and carrying an umbrella. Under the man is the caption, “O.H. Oldroyd on a tramping your over the eighty miles of Booth’s flight.” Next to Oldroyd is a videogame sprite of an alley cat. The other page shows a block of text under the chapter title “Narrative of a walk…” The relevant line about cats being present in Baptist Alley behind Ford’s Theatre has been underlined in red.
October 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Is his name Mudd? On a Lincoln Assassination Tour, you’ll see the grave of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd in person as we explore the background of one of the most debated figures in the assassination story. www.LincolnAssassinationTours.com
The grave of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd and Sarah Francis Mudd at the cemetery of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Bryantown, MD.
October 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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#Skystorians in #Maryland, check this out!
iknuppel.bsky.social Ilka Knüppel @iknuppel.bsky.social · 19d
I’ll be presenting on my book “Finding Ruth: a Personal Story of Hitler’s Secret Euthanasia Program Aktion T4” on Nov. 5, 2025, at 5:30 p.m. at #TowsonUniversity.
If you’d like to attend, please contact Dr. Hana Bor. Her contact information is on the flier below.
Insta: @finding_ruth_1941 #aktionT4
October 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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And for the record, it looks like Booth did play the aforementioned scene for a bit of a laugh:
Written manuscript that says: Ros. "I know no touch of it my lord" Hamlet: (looks from one to the other in mild surprise, then draws the instrument up before him, sitting upright in the chair) Tis (upward accent) as easy (long upward sound of E in easy) as lying (long sound of ___ accent of the first syllable. Hold the pipe out in his left hand and hits his right hand along it covering the holes with his fingers) govern these ventages with you fingers and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music. Look you (upward accent of you. Looks up at the duo) these are the stops (slight upward accent of stops. Points to the part of the piece and holds it out towards Guil.)
October 27, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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elizamreese.bsky.social
But what ended up being my favorite was Clarke's FOUR PAGE DESCRIPTION of Booth's physical appearance that just starts with "Booth is handsome. He has a very shapely and interesting face."

Clarke, circa 1870: Let's just get this out of the way, the dude is good looking.
written manuscript that says: "Booth is handsome. He has a very shapely and interesting face."
October 27, 2025 at 1:46 AM