The Lincoln Body Heist Aims For 1876 Ransom Plot
Craughwell recalls a Chicago led scheme to steal Abraham Lincoln’s remains from Springfield in 1876. Ringleader James Kennally and crew planned to move the sarcophagus to Indiana Dunes for a $200,000 ransom while Secret Service and Pinkerton agents intervened. The botched raid ended with gunfire in a cemetery as voters chose Hayes over Tilden.
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Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Craughwell
Springfield
Ill
John Wilkes Booth
Indiana Dunes
Ilinois
Connecticut
James
Big Jim” Kennally
The
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Secret Service
Lewis Swegles
Kennally
Swegles
Feds
Pinkerton
Rutherford Hayes
Samuel Tilden
Bradbury Wins Pulitzer with Lifetime Honor
Ray Bradbury, aged 86 and longtime master of science fiction and fantasy, received a special Pulitzer citation for a prolific career. He noted the honor rewards his lifetime work rather than a single book and reflected on the Pulitzer's historical neglect of genre fiction.
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Ray Bradbury
The
Bradbury
Pulitterarg
Los Angeles
Sputnik
Guy Montag
Burns Books
Book and movie listings from a dense listings page
A crowded catalog lists authors publishers and prices for numerous books across genres including Baldacci Tolkien Shreve Clark Kellerman Picoult and many others with scattered film showtimes and theater notices for Spider Man 3 Disturbia Meet the Robinsons Lucky You and The Condemned among others with times and ratings.
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David Baldacci
Warner
Hurin
J.A.R. Tolkien
Christopher Tolkien
Houghton Mifflin
the Woods
Harlan Cohen
Alexander McCall Smith
Pantheon
Anita Shreve
Little, Brown
Mary Higgins Clark
Simon & Schuster
Jodi Picoult
Quick
Putnam
Jim Butcher
Roc
Jonathan Kellerman
Ballantine
Tim LaHaye
Jerry B. Jenkins
Tyndale
Celebrities arrive and bet on 133rd Kentucky Derby
Churchill Downs hosts a star studded Derby with Jenny McCarthy making her first appearance and hoping to meet Queen Elizabeth II. Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed place bets with Tweed reportedly wagering one hundred thousand dollars on a horse.
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Churchill Downs
Louisville
Jenny McCarthy
Playboy
Keehen
McCarthy
Ielese Joan Hart
Gene Simmons
Kiss
Shannon Tweed
Simmons
Tweed
Book proposes Jack the Ripper fled to New York
New York Daily News reports historian Charles Van Onselen suggesting Joseph Silver, a Polish born Jew known as the King of Pimps in South Africa, may have been the London killer. The theory cites Silver’s timeline from London 1888 killings to Sing Sing, Johannesburg, and eventual execution in Poland in 1918.
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Jack the Ripper
New Yorker
London
Joseph Silver
Sing Sing
South Africa
Charles van Onselen
Silver
Johannesburg
the Ripper
van Onselen
University of Pretoria
Victorian
England
Europe
Poland
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