March 14, 2008
D.C. Police Discover Booking Log From Lincoln Assasination
The Metropolitan Police Department has recovered a historic booking log that is one of the first written records of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Call Nicholas Cage, and alert the Masons! Could this be a real live Book of Secrets? From the Examiner:
Local lore has it that in the 1960s or ’70s, someone found the book in a police trash bin with other discarded files. The book circulated among retired police officers for years, until a former police chief recently convinced the previous owner to donate it to the Police Department.Department historian Sgt. Nick Breul plans to place the book in a hermetically sealed case in the department’s museum on the sixth floor of police headquarters. No word on whether the National Treasure film franchise can also be placed under a hermetic seal.In flowery prose, the writer reports on the actions and the mood of the members of the then-8th Precinct at E and Fifth streets southeast. It appears to have been written between the time of the assassination — around 10:30 p.m., April 14, 1865 — and the next day’s first arrest. John Wilkes Booth was already a suspect, and Lincoln had not yet succumbed to the gunshot wound.
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That's nothing. I've got a copy of the ORIGINAL booking log where they pulled over Frederick Douglass's carriage for "driving while Black" and they tried to pin him as a suspect. Read the man's autobiography and on page 437 he goes into great detail about being billyclubbed for resisting arrest.
i guess his "can't we all just get along" moment didn't translate well to daguerreotype, did it?
MPD has a museum? Who knew? And what a dumb place to put it on display. That's something the Washingtoniana Division at the MLK Library should display or the Smithsonian.
frederick douglass?
I hate to hijack the thread, but.
I've got a nephew visiting this weekend. 16 years old.
I'd like to take him on a little clothing or 'cool stuff' shopping trip.
He likes music (classical guitar and other guitar stuff). Lives in a small town and Mom is on a very tight budget so he doesn't really have a lot of hipster or age-appropriate stuff.
Mom is a super fundie Christian but has a decent sense of humor.
I don't know crap about kids, other than apparently it's illegal to give them horse tranquilizers..
Could anybody make some suggestions?
I'm sorry if this post wasn't snarky enough.
Sorry, Hillman, I realized I'm not hip enough to comment either when I didn't think that "kegs n' eggs" seems like a good idea anymore... When you're over thirty, and don't want to put the fun in functional alcoholism...
So, uh, Urban Outfitters?
Hmm. Books, books... Where in DC should historically important books be kept?
A good question for the DC Concierge...
http://www.thedcconcierge.typepad.com
See, all the hipster stuff ain't gonna be cheap. There's all that boutiquey crap on U Street but it's probly outta yr pricerange. Second Story Books in Dupont usually has some funky used music for sale and cool books. Do the kids even read nowdays?
Then you could take him over to The Fireplace and show him how the other half lives. Do a little "recruiting."
Hillman, I know this is going to sound ridiculous, but take the kid to the downtown H&M. Tons of "hip" stuff at cheap prices. It's soo hip that American Apparel is across the street from it. There's also Crooked Beat on 18th street. It has good bin of DC band records. And it's next to Meeps which to his small town mind maybe overpriced for thrift store clothes, but sadly is on the low end for prices in this city.
Um, hello. Hipster shop at American Apparel or Urban if they're from the suburbs. If you want something that says "I'm totally irreverent AND I went to DC" buy him this
Also, I was going to suggest this but I didn't want to get said nephew in trouble with said mom. I still thought it was worth throwing out there though if anyone wants to go for the similar "I'm totally irreverent AND I went to Arlington" look.
Also, I was going to suggest this but I didn't want to get said nephew in trouble with said mom. I still thought it was worth throwing out there though if anyone wants to go for the similar "I'm totally irreverent AND I went to Arlington" look.
to hijack this thread back, i just realized that there is a lincoln log joke to be made from the title here, but i am too slow to make one today.
monkey, got anything? (and it doesn't have to be scatological, but i'm not going to tell a master to work outside of his medium...)
hillman - take them to the DCist exposed photography show!
One wonders why the log would be booking from the assassination UNLESS IT WAS GUILTY! If it was innocent, it would have remained at the crimescene to answer the officer's questions. So to sum up:
-was Lincoln assasinated by a piece of driftwood?
-was John Wilkes Booth a patsy?
-do all kids love log?
Monkey:
Believe me, I ain't taking this kid anywhere near the Fireplace...... is that place even open anymore?
He's 16, 6 foot tall, athletic, and quite the handsome mocha wonder - half white (my sister is uber white) and half black.
There's no damn way I'm taking him near the Fireplace.
And nothing's really out of my price range, as long as I'm willing to raise someone's rent accordingly....
What? You know I was dying to say it.
Hillman:
I would stay away from the fireplace, too. Not the best of places... eh?
Monkey:
You are funny. simply amusing and funny.
I agree with Blittle: take 'em to downtown H&M. Great prices for very little.
Peace.
plesko! good to see you! maybe you can help: where do the young hip Christians go for fun nowdays? back in my day, it was the basement of the rectory with the communion wine and a copy of Swank.
Plesko:
I'm too lazy to go check.... Did you ever answer my questions on why the Catholic Church won't sell their art collections and excess properties to help the poor and afflicted?
Consider that olive branch sufficiently smashed.
plesko! the pleskonator! plessy v. fergusson! good to have you back. thought us heathens had scared you off for good!