Norman Gasbarro | November 30, 2016
In April 1865, Abraham Lincoln‘s funeral train left Washington, D.C., on a three-week journey on its way to Springfield, Illinois. During the time that Lincoln’s body lay in state for viewing by thousands in New York City, a photographer, Jeremiah Gurney Jr., with permission of those responsible for security, took a photograph. Secretary of War […]
Norman Gasbarro | September 23, 2015
On this occasion of the visit of Pope Francis to the United States, occurring 22 September 2015 – 26 September 2015, a prior post on this blog is recalled. That post of 27 February 2013 was entitled, Pope Pius IX – The Vatican, Lincoln and the Civil War. ————————————— Pope Pius IX – The Vatican, […]
Norman Gasbarro | April 14, 2015
Today marks the 150th Anniversary of one of the great tragedies in American history – the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. This post summarizes the conclusions of nearly twenty years of personal research on one of the so-called artifacts of that assassination – a 36-star American flag said to be placed under Lincoln’s head in […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 23, 2015
The first postal commemoration of the death of Abraham Lincoln was a black, fifteen cent stamp issued on the first anniversary of the assassination, April 1866. That stamp was described in a previous blog post entitled Early Postage Stamps Honoring Abraham Lincoln. Beginning with the Civil War Centennial, 1961-1965, there was an increase in the […]
Norman Gasbarro | December 27, 2013
“The Lincoln Flag Hoax“, first published on 21 December 2012, was one of the conclusions to a long series on the Lincoln assassination that appeared throughout 2012. The series took the reader through a chronology of events that supposedly took place at and after the Lincoln assassination and included characters Laura Keene, Jeannie Gourlay, William […]
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