Who was responsible for President Abraham Lincoln's death? The Lincolns' bodyguard, John F. Parker, was a one of the first patrolmen when the Metropolitan Police Force was organized in Washington D.C. in 1861. He had been reprimanded a few times for insubordination and dereliction of his duties. For some reason, which we will never truly know unless we meet Mrs. Lincoln in the afterlife, she requested Parker be exempt from the draft and detailed to the Executive Mansion on April 3, 1865.
On April 14, 1865, while the Lincolns' were attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater Parker took a break from sitting outside the President's box. Some said he went next door to get a drink leaving President Lincoln unguarded. We all know what happened. John Wilkes Booth sneaked into the box and assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. So, why wasn't Parker punished for leaving his post? Why wasn't Parker dismissed? He was not even immediately relieved of his White House duties.
Did Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, who took charge of the "Manhunt" after the President was shot, have an ulterior motive? Was it misdirection? Did he want the people to watch the right hand so he could hide what was in the left hand? Who motivated Mrs. Lincoln to have John Parker transferred to the White House in the first place?
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