Re: Michel Cluizel chocolate

On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:42:19 -0800, Nate Edel <archmage@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Keith F. Lynch <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> William December Starr <wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> > Yes, but since nobody can ever remember how to spell or pronounce
>> > either of their killers' names, everybody prefers to just ignore
>> > the whole thing.
>>
>> That leads to a cool new conspiracy theory:  Booth and Oswald were
>> both framed, as they had names that were easy to spell and pronounce,
>> unlike the real killers ot Lincoln and Kennedy.
> 
> Are there existing conspiracy theories that someone other than Booth
killed
> Lincoln?

Googling on 'Lincoln assassination conspiracy', the first hit is
http://home.att.net/~rjnorton/Lincoln74.html
which lists 6 conspiracy theories that have been offered at one time or 
another:

* ANDREW JOHNSON WAS INVOLVED WITH BOOTH
* LINCOLN DIED BY WAY OF A SIMPLE CONSPIRACY ORGANIZED BY JOHN WILKES 
BOOTH
* LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION WAS THE RESULT OF A CONFEDERATE PLOT
* LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION WAS THE RESULT OF A CONSPIRACY OF POWERFUL 
INTERNATIONAL BANKERS
* THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH WAS BEHIND LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION
* SECRETARY OF WAR EDWIN STANTON WAS THE MASTERMIND BEHIND LINCOLN'S 
ASSASSINATION

and then adds this:
"Other groups and individuals that have at times been implicated in 
Lincoln's assassination include Freemasons, domestic bankers, financiers 
and businessmen, Copperheads, certain Radical Republicans (either on 
their own or in concert with Edwin Stanton), the B'nai B'rith, and the 
Knights of the Golden Circle. Major Henry R. Rathbone, John F. Parker, 
and Mary Todd Lincoln have not totally escaped suspicion. Speculation 
that Booth's motivation was to avenge the hanging of Confederate John 
Yates Beall is not proven. (For details please see the November 2000 
edition of the Surratt Courier.) Although it's been over 140 years since 
the assassination, any kind of closure on all of the cir***stances 
surrounding the event still seems a long way in the distance."

Mary Todd Lincoln had her husband whacked?

-dms