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  1. I think the death of Lewis is quite interesting.

    At first the official explanation seems quite plausible. A man is a hero in a heroic expedition, then his life stalls if you will, he gets depressed and commits suicide.

    What bothers me is a suicide with multiple gunshot wounds. If he did commit suicide, he must have been one tough, determined man.

    What was he headed to Washington to report? Something routine or something earth shaking?

    I put this in a category with our four presidential assassinations. In other countries, all throughout history, powerful political opponents have assassinated leaders on a fairly regular basis. In the US, we have experienced assassinations only by random, pretty much fringe individuals. Powerful people do not assassinate our Presidents. With the Lincoln assassination, the official account has a small conspiracy of nobody’s. With the others it was lunatic individuals. With the Reagan attempt, the would be assassine was once again a lunatic individual supposedly with no connections to any of Reagan’s political opponents.

    Are we “fortunate” in this regard or have we always been very good at controlling narratives?

    I don’t know. But I increasingly subscribe to the old saying, “Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see.”

    1. “With the Reagan attempt, the would be assassin was once again a lunatic individual supposedly with no connections to any of Reagan’s political opponents.”

      Well, not quite. John Hinkley Jr. was the son of very close family friends to George H.W. Bush. You remember him, Vice President under Reagan and former CIA director under Carter. The same G.H.W. Bush that was one of the CIA team in Dallas on November 22, 1963. This is not “conspiracy theory”, it’s just a true fact. If the facts lead to a conspiracy, so be it. G.H.W. Bush was indeed a political opponent of Ronald Reagan, even as his VP, he was still an opponent. The shooting wasn’t meant to kill, it was meant as a warning. If TPTB actually wanted Reagan dead, Hinkley would have used a .45 not the .22 that he used.

      The Bush crime family, like the Clinton crime family, have a lot to answer for.

      1. I am familiar with the Hinkley link. Whole libraries have of course been written about the irregularities in the Kennedy story. There are irregularities similar to the Hinkley link in the Garfield and Lincoln stories as well. I have never studied the McKinley assassination so I don’t know if that story is questionable since I don’t know the story.

        Regarding Lewis, there was a lot of blood shed in the colonial period between the Spanish, French, English and American colonists. I was reminded of this during a trip to Florida last may where I viewed some art recording some of the battles between Spaniards and English early in Florida’s history. Very bloody encounters. With all the early conflict who knows what Lewis may have run into or what information he may have stumbled across or what?

  2. I am in the middle of the book, Out West by Dayton Duncan, about his journeys following the trail of Lewis and Clark. Although he is sometimes cute in his writing, he is often spot on.

    Duncan’s recounting of the history of the people The Corps of Discovery encountered is well written.

    Carry on

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