CONSPIRACIES IN MONTREAL

PART I: JOHN WILKES BOOTH

PHOTO GALLERY FROM
DE DALLAS A MONTREAL


Peoples on the street generally believe that President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by an isolated fanatic. In reality, his death was the result of an important conspiracy. An official inquiry on this matter ended with the hanging of four conspirators and four others were condemn to lifetime jail sentences.

Montreal St. Lawrence Hall hotel is the place were John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s assassin, was recruited by Confederates secret services, that first planned the President kidnapping, After the Sudists lost the Civil War, Booth is said to have take by himself the decision to assassinate Lincoln. Own of his accomplice, John T. Surratt, escaped via Montreal from where he departed to Italia and joined Papal Zouaves.

CONSPIRACIES IN MONTREAL

DID JOHN W. BOOTH, JAMES E. RAY AND LEE H. OSWALD
ALL CAUGHT THE ASSASSIN VIRUS IN MONTREAL?

PART I: JOHN WILKES BOOTH

"I CANNOT SEE HOW THE CROWN CAN ARGUE
THAT CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT A CRIME IN THE UNITED STATES
IS A CRIME IN CANADA."
Aimé Geoffrion, Sam Bronfman's defence attorney
in a 1935 trial for alcohol smuggling.

Believe it or not, the above argument was given consideration by Judge Jules Desmarais who dismissed the charges against the Bronfman's brothers, Seagram's owners, in one of Canada biggest judicial case, referred to in the press as the "huge liquor conspiracy". Ironically, Seagram's, the company whose founders used this kind of rhetoric, is today one of United States' political parties principal contributors.

The fact that Canada may be used as a safe haven where criminals can’t be prosecuted for planning crimes in the USA, is probably the reason why three of American history biggest political conspiracies had ramifications in Montreal. Those three political crimes being the Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations.

Seventy years before Bronfman’s attorney’s 1935 sophism, Confederate spies had the same line of thought during the Civil War when they used Montreal as one of their sanctuaries. At this time, Confederate intelligence officers used Montreal's St. Lawrence Hall, a prestigious hotel on St. Jacques street, as their headquarter.

History mainly recall how, from there, they plan a raid in Union’s territory to commit a series of bank robberies in St. Albans, Vermont. An act of war, the raid was of an unusual violent nature in a part of the country that was far from the combat zone. In the press, it was commented with critical text such as this:

Montreal Gazette, Tuesday Morning, October 20, 1864
Outrage at St. Albans
St. Albans, Vt., 19th. -- A party of 20 rebel raiders entered this place this p.m. shooting and killing the citizens. They robbed all the banks, stole 15 or 20 horses, killed 4 or 5 and wounded several. They have left town but are expected back soon with a large force. If there is no error or exaggeration in this statement, a gross outrage has been committed, in a peaceful and thriving village, situated on the Vermont Central Railway, a short distance from Rouses Point, and not far from the borders of Canada.

The raiders were able to escape from Vermont and to enter Canada where 13 of the robbers were arrested. Some $80,000 were confiscated from them. Using the same line of thought that Bronfman’s attorney will use years later, Justice Smith of Montreal refused to extradite the Confederate bank robbers. After a short detention, the Confederate criminals were given their liberty ... and even some of their confiscated stolen money back.

Still, in October 1864, a more sinister conspiracy had its root in Montreal St. Lawrence Hall hotel. A this time a famed young American actor made an unusual trip up north to meet with Confederate agents. The actor’s name was John Wilkes Booth and his contacts were the heads of the Secret Service, Jacob Thompson and Clement Clay.

Few weeks after those meeting, in mid-November, Booth was back in Washington. Booth carried with him a letter of introduction from the Confederates addressed to Dr. William Queen of Charles County, Maryland. This letter led Booth to meet with Dr. Samuel A. Mudd in November of 1864. With Mudd and others, Booth began putting together an operation to capture Abraham Lincoln and transport him to Richmond. By capturing Lincoln they expected to force the federal government to return Confederate prisoners of war who were confined in Union prisons and then return them to fight Union forces.The attempt to capture the president took place on March 17, 1865. The President, however, changed his plans and luckily escaped the conspirators’ plot only to fall in a deadlier trap. Two weeks later, the long Union siege of the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia ended. Then, one week later, on April 9, 1865 General Lee was forced by General Grant to surrender. These Confederate failures apparently gave Booth the incentive to carry out his final fatal plan. Five days after General Lee's surrender, Booth, according to the official version, took the initiative to assassinate Lincoln inside Ford's Theatre. One of Booth accomplices, John H. Surrat escaped to Montreal where he received help to get on a boat to Italy where he enrolled in the Pontifical Zouaves.

THE THINGS TO COME ON THIS BLOG (2)

Lee Harvey Oswald in Montreal

Beginning tomorrow, I will post a series of articles that will end with the exclusive publication of the picture of a woman said to have been seen with Lee Harvey Oswald in Montreal, distributing Fair Play for Cuba leaflets.

Tomorrow, the first part of this series will expose a very peculiar phenomenon: the fact that the 3 greatest political "assassins" of American history, i.e. Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray and John Wilkes Booth, were all reported to have visited Montreal before "committing" their crime. The words "assassins" and "committing" being put inside quotes since those 3 assassins all seem to have been scapegoats having little or no part at all in a bigger conspiracy.

Talking about Montreal, the second part of this series will deviate a little and relate the fact that, in 1940, Ramon Mercader, Leon Trotsky’s murderer, had with him a passport stating that he was living in Montreal. That being said, I will share with you a FBI report revealing an astonishing bond between Leon Trotsky and baron de Rothschild. Was the communist intellectual an agent of the Rothschilds?

The third part will deal directly with the Oswald in Montreal topic. We will review and evaluate the credibility of witnesses putting Oswald in Montreal a few weeks before the Dallas assassination. According to a report from a U.S. Customs officer, Oswald was seen in Montreal distributing Fair Play for Cuba leaflets on a Montreal street corner that now host Montreal’s World Trade Center.

Fourth, this Blog will show for the first time the picture of an unidentified woman that was with Oswald in Montreal. Those documents obtained from the US National Archives were never publish before. Finding out who is this woman may bring new light on the JFK assassination.

Other topics

After this series on LHO in Montreal, the other subjects to come in this Blog should be:

Zapruder 313

THE FATAL SHOT TO THE JFK ASSASSINATION
LONE GUNMAN OFFICIAL VERSION

The Zapruder film constitutes the best proof of the course of events of the JFK assassination. Image 313 of this film is most difficult to support because it clearly shows the president cranium explode under the impact of a projectile. But, more than one macabre image, frame 313 comprises a detail which stayed unperceived for more than forty years: the photographic imprint of the fatal projectile - the ultimate proof of the plot -.

Louis Mortimer Bloomfield

ARE CANADA NATIONAL ARCHIVES HIDING THE KEY OF THE JFK MYSTERY?

OSS veteran, Louis-Mortimer Bloomfield is perceived by some as the architect of the assassination plot against President John F. Kennedy. Before its death, this Montreal lawyer donated his personal papers to Canada National Archives, under condition that they are made public twenty years after his death. However, more than one year after the end of this delay, Library and Archives Canada refuses to make available the Bloomfield documents. Will a legal battle carry out revelation of new information on the JFK assassination?