HOGAF01 - History of the Great American Fortunes series

Chapter 1 of Volume 1 of Gustavus Meyer's 1909 book, "History of the Great American Fortunes."

Read by Gordon Comstock of Rejected Knowledge.

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MHT12 - Mystery History Theater; The Hit on Abe series

In the final episode of The Hit on Abe, Booth hopscotches through the Northeast, Quebec, the Caribbean and obtains a passport through the British Consulate in San Francisco, having “appropriated” the identity of British immigrant John B. Wilkes, then of Terre Haute, Indiana.

Three women recount the time they spent with Booth after his “death.” Booth’s reputed wife Izola is aided by another “dead” man in her efforts to join Booth in San Francisco.

Booth’s treachery knows no bounds as he cuts Izola adrift on the Pacific from the ship he commissioned to take them to India. She survives.

Years later, Booth as Wilkes returns to the United States for a brief time with his last wife, the former Elizabeth Marshall Burnley of England. After Booth’s death, she writes a series of letters importuning U.S. Grant—whom she had met in 1877in India during his post-Presidential global tour—to release Booth’s frozen assets for a dispersal among her, her daughters, three other women and the children they bore him.

Booth, as John B. Wilkes, “believing death to be imminent,” executes his will, Sept. 12, 1883, in Bombay, India, and is buried in Guwahati. The will is certified and probated in the U.S. and its instructions followed. The real John B. Wilkes, formerly of Sheffield, England, dies in Terre Haute in 1912.

This episode was originally posted by Vyzygoth on his Alembic Files site in April 2015.

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MHT11 - Mystery History Theater; The Hit on Abe series

"You have spoiled my fun in Mexico"

Six miles south from their Rappahannock crossing, Boyd and Herold stop at Garrett’s farm.

Booth and Henson, now joined by Booth’s loyal valet, Henry Johnson, head west in a wagon for the safety they hope to find on the far side of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

A patrol stops the three, but not recognizing any of them as the perpetrators, lets them go. A patrol stops at Garrett’s farm and surrounds Herold and Boyd hiding in a tobacco barn.

This episode was originally posted by Vyzygoth on his Alembic Files site in April 2015.

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MHT10 - Mystery History Theater; The Hit on Abe series

Two attacks on the same night - Secretary of State William H. Seward and President Abraham Lincoln.

This episode was originally posted by Vyzygoth on his Alembic Files site in March 2015.

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