posted October 25, 2007 05:10 PM            

Linda’s journey in sharing her birth right…. “Hazelwood.” Following two decades of research, Linda was daring to add a new chapter to American History, that President Lincoln was her great great grandfather. Linda’s claims were reportedly supported by a number of Lincoln scholars and historians. During Linda’s research she also claimed to have turned up letters written by, and photographs collected by, members of the Civil War’s Secret Service, and also the National Detective Police. Linda had uncovered a quote by President Lincoln: “I regret the necessity of saying I have no daughters”. Linda thought that President Lincoln’s sadness, and his known spells of deep melancholy, had been connected to an affair. It was alleged that President Lincoln had an affair with Elizabeth (royal blood of the Habsburg of Austria). This affair was alleged to have been 3 years in length and produced two daughters: Margaret Ellen Eager & Ella Eager – it was reported that they were twins. Linda believed that Ella Eager was her great grandmother. It was rumored that Elizabeth was legally married to a dead man, by the name of Jason Davis, because it was such a scandal to have two illegitimate daughters at this time in history.

It was also rumored that President Lincoln had signed a “Cotton Pass” (which permitted a man from NY named Henry Eager to transport cotton safely thought the lines). This infamous “Pass” was called the “Eager Cotton Pass”. This safe conduct pass for cotton was valued at 30,000 bales or equivalent to $300,000,000 now! Some hypnosis that if President Lincoln had not been assassinated, knowledge of this “Eager Cotton Pass” might have resulted in a huge scandal that may have destroyed Lincoln’s administration. Remember the alleged illegitimate daughter of President Lincoln was named Ella Eager, and the name of the “Pass” – “Eager Cotton Pass”. Think that’s coincidental?

It was also alleged that Judge David Davis had taken possession of all bonds after President Lincoln’s assassination. Now where have we heard the name of Davis prior… oh yeah.. the rumor that Elizabeth married a dead man by the last name of Davis.

Linda Goodman lived at 225 Lincoln St., Johnstown at one time in her life. How ironic is that?

Ella Eager was reported to have married a man with the last name of Kemery. Ella was reported to have a son named William Ellsworth Kemery (Linda’s grandpa). Linda’s father’s name was Robert Stratton Kemery. Daughter Sally (Sarah Elizabeth Snyder - see more information on the thread about Sally) latter took the stage name of “Stratton”. Linda Goodman’s birth name: Mary Alice Kemery. While living in Parkersburg, W.VA. Linda began her career as a newspaper writer in Parkersburg. That’s when she married her first husband William Snyder. Linda gave birth to son William/Bill and daughter Sally with her first husband William Synder.

When Linda started working as a radio announcer in Pittsburgh she took the name of Linda instead of Mary Alice. Then upon marrying the second time to Sam Goodman in 1955, she changed her full name to Linda Goodman. While married to Sam Goodman Linda gave birth to daughter Jill and son Michael. Linda moved to New York in 1963 and that’s when her career truly blossomed. The story goes that Sam Goodman died tragically and suddenly on Thanksgiving morning 1983.

The family has had a priceless litho of President Lincoln, which Linda had professionally dated back to 1867, in the family possession since 1867. Why? This litho was reported to be signed by President Lincoln himself. When I visited Linda at her hotel room in the Roosevelt Hotel, she had this litho hanging behind her desk. I thought it odd at first for her to have this “art” in her room, and asked her one day why she gravitated to this kind of art. Her reply was educating me on her hopeful upcoming book entitled “Hazelwood”.

Having spoken with the Lincoln Historical Communities, they estimated the value of this Litho to be priceless. Rumors abound as to who may have traveled to Cripple Creek to obtain it from Linda’s home. One of Linda's children has spoken that the Litho is in a safe place....

I don't mean to ruffle any feathers... I've been asked to share.. so I'm sharing...

posted October 27, 2007 10:26 PM            

Here is the photo of Sally – Linda Goodman’s daughter – as promised in my topic thread (this photo was given to me personally by Linda)….. BiBi DeAngelo

Birth name: Sarah Elizabeth Synder
Stage name: Sarah Stratton

Excerpts from: “Spider Line – Linda’s Goodman’s Search for Sally”

1. “Sally disappeared after threats against her children’s lives were received by Linda Goodman wile she was investigating the boat called “Star Quest”, involved with Watergate and many other nefarious activities under President Richard Nixon.”
2. “There is excellent cause to believe that Sally is alive, and that the book’s revelations of the circumstances causing Sally’s involuntary disappearance.”
3. While Linda was writing a series of articles for McCall’s Magazine, Linda and the Senior Editor, Dalma Heyn, choose the name “Spider Line” for the book. The choice was easy since Dr. Angel (for many years Curator of Physical anthropology for the Smithsonian Institute) told Linda “that in all his years as curator in all thousands, even millions of faces he had studied, he had never once come across the particular “mark” that has appeared in every photograph of Sally, including those taken as a child and blown up.” That mark looked like a Spider Line. The other reason “Spider Line” was a great choice was because it suggests the intricate cobweb of conspiracy Linda came across in her search for Sally!
4. Spring of 1973, Sally then 20 years old, graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, in New York, where she won the “Best Actress” award, presented by Richard Rodgers and Helen Hayes. Within a few weeks Sally was off to begin her career with her new stage name that Linda had suggested because it was a family surname – Sarah Stratton. Sally was hired to play an ingénue leading lady to the Hackmatack Playhouse, a summer theatre in Berwick, Maine.
5. All the letters Sally wrote to Linda and her stepfather Sam “were filled with news, overflowing with optimism of five plays that would begin in late June and end just after Labor Day.”
6. Sally returned to New York and took temporary residence with the family of Peter Miner, her former director at the Academy. “Linda’s royalties had not been paid, and Linda couldn’t assist Sally financially as she desired, which greatly distressed Linda.”
7. The police were called “on December 9, 1973, to an apartment because friends of Sally who had stopped by to visit Sally, and had noticed a peculiar and unpleasant odor emanating from Apartment 6 B.
8. Address where Sally’s supposed dead body was allegedly found in a dilapidated New York apartment: West 176th Street, Apartment 6 B, New York

Now starts the clues of a Mystery:

1. Police found the remains of a decomposed body of a young female. Nearby, was an 8 page handwritten note, dated December 4th, describing great depression. One autopsy stated death was six days ago. However, other forensic pathologists, after careful study of the autopsy report, later stated that a “partially mummified” body would have to have been dead for a minimum of 3-4 weeks.
2. The autopsy report further stated “that the girl (dead body recovered from the apartment) had drunk a vast quantity of liquor in hours prior to her death, though death itself, the report stated, was a result of a massive overdose of barbiturates. The official verdict: Suicide.”
3. December 10th, Sally’s birthday, “Sam Goodman was called to the morgue to identify the body as his stepdaughter, Sally Snyder. He was accompanied by Aaron Goldblatt, an old family friend. The body of the young lady was wrapped in a distinctive quilt-comforter, rose colored, which had been a gift to Sally from Linda. A powerful “non-verbal cue”, strictly forbidden by morgue regulations, though Sam had no way of knowing that at that time.” I don’t know about any of you, however, any time I’ve seen a body at the morgue they are on the pull out slab and if anything a white sheet over the face… not a blanket from the death scene! Sam was haunted by the vision he saw at the morgue. The young lady looked more like either a “West Indian woman” or “a young black woman” with dyed blonde hair. Then latter, one of the 3 police reports filed referred to the body removed from the apartment as that of a black female with red-gold hair!
4. December 21st… Sam returns to Sally’s apartment to gather her belongings (took Sam 10 days to obtain the keys to Sally’s apartment from the authorities). The visual of Sally’s apartment shocked Sam.. the police report had reported “neat, orderly rooms”…Sam witnessed “blood everywhere … crime investigator Cleve Backstar (experienced crime investigator, called the country’s foremost polygraph expert, and head of the Becker School of Lie Detection, formerly in New York) said at least 5-6 quarts of blood. The mattress was soaked in blood (bed horizontally placed against bed – see police report below)… the walls were spattered with it, there were large pools of sticky, not quite dried blood on the floor; and the telephone was coated in blood, to which a very large quantity of human hair and tissue adhered, as though the instrument had been used to bludgeon someone’s head. The fact that it was long, soft, blonde hair, approximately the same shade of Sally’s hair – to the naked eye – made it an anguishing sight for Sam (and equally so, later for Linda).” NOW listen to this! The original police report stated: “no blood, phone perfectly clean, bed in vertical position… quilt Sally was wrapped up in the morgue… was left on bed… police report stated body was placed in a morgue “body bag”.” I don’t know about all of you… but some FACTS just aren’t connecting!
5. Linda couldn’t dismiss all the inconsistencies! Could anyone dismiss these many different accounts? Also, Linda “had been searching for a very dear friend who had been missing since July 4th 1973, who had been on the boat Star Quest. Linda had alleged that her friend had been an innocent witness to some crime aboard the Star Quest that was connected with Watergate. Linda also alleged the Star Quest was a floating brothel onto which to lure political opponents, then tape and photograph them in compromising positions. Linda’s mind also streamed back to the several threats she’d received against her children’s lives while she was investigating the boat (Star Quest), the most recent threats having been made only a couple of weeks prior to the news that Sally “was dead”.” This is something Linda and I had in common… My mother’s life and my brother’s life were threatened when I was working in Washington, D.C. Linda and I knew many of the same people in the Washington area! Ironically, both Linda and I have our “Sun” located in our natal charts in the 12th House!
6. “Although Linda made repeated and insistent requests, Linda was not given a copy of the autopsy report until nearly four months after her first visit to the morgue.” When she finally received the final autopsy several facts stood out:
• The report stated the girl in the apartment had drunk herself into a stupor, then swallowed vast quantities of barbiturates (though independently retained forensic pathologists insisted the drugs had to have been injected!). Yet, no liquor, no syringes or needles, no pills, no glasses that might have held liquor, and no bottles of liquor, no bottles that might have held pills were found by the police in the apartment!! [It doesn’t take an Einstein moment to figure out.. how is someone suppose to write an eight page note.. and date the note (ha!)… drink herself stone drunk… taken vast quantities of barbiturates.. then what.. get rid of all the evidence and then die??] Question: if you had uncovered all these inconsistencies would you not be doubtful? There is more…..
• The autopsy described “the young girl as 5 foot 3 inches tall.. Weighing 130 lbs. with well developed breasts and moderately long hair – no scalp wounds or injuries” (who got hit by the phone??” For those of you who didn’t know Sally “her vital statistics taken from her medical records made shortly before she left for Berwick, Maine to act during the summer were: 5 foot 5 inches tall, 110 lbs. Small breast, and wore her naturally blonde hair cut short to her ear lobes, this is confirmed in photographs taken in October 1973, after the summer stock season.” There is still more….
• Police reports concerning removal of the body were conflicting! One police officer described a body “removed on the night of December 9, wearing two- pieced, red pajamas. The second police officer said “body as removed on the night of December 11th, dressed in a green print blouse with puffed sleeves. Then one of the physicians described the body being autopsied, on tape, as wearing a pink nightgown. So who was the body that left several pints of blood on the bed, walls… who was bludgeoned in the head with the telephone?? There is still more…
• The book at the morgue… “When Sam Goodman and Goldblatt approached the receptionist upon their arrival at the morgue, and informed the clerk they were there to identify Sally Synder, they were shown an entry book, and asked “Which Sally Synder?” The first entry: Sally Snyder – white female age 20.. West 176th then two lines below … the initial S. Synder – white female – age 21 – West 176th Street. “Sam and Aaron pointed to the first “Sally Synder” entry, puzzled, and said, “I guess that’s the one”, dazed and not knowing what to think at that point.” This entry book was seen and witnessed by 2 people a number of years later.
• Phone bill that came in after Sally’s death indicated that someone used the phone during the time after the police took the body out, and the time Sam Goodman entered the apartment. Did someone use “the blood and hair encrusted telephone to make 2 phone calls to 2 people in Berwick, Maine, both actors in the melodrama during the 1973 summer stock season” that Sally acted with. Why would calls to Sally’s friend in the summer theater occur from her apartment after her so called death? Still more…
• The blood on the bed and walls was tested… guess what NOT Sally’s blood type? Is this getting really weird by now?? “Professor Ray Neff, of Indiana State University (Toxicologist and recognized expert in pathology, from Indiana State University, formerly Coroner in New Jersey for many years) verified that the blood found in the apartment was not Sally’s blood type, and that the hair on the telephone was not Sally’s hair, compared with standards of childhood from her baby book.” Still more…
• Handwriting experts for the supposed 8 page suicide note Sally wrote… guess what…First part of the so called “suicide note and originals of letters written by Sally that summer of 1973 were said to be forgeries by one of the foremost Questioned Document experts in the country!” (Joseph Moomaw, of Colorado, a leading analyst of questioned documents for authenticity or forgery.) Oh, by the way… this suicide note disappeared from morgue files! Want more…
• David Sikes (one time government agent and investigator for the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division, who taught the technique of Witness Recall to the FBI. Also, a former bodyguard of 3 Presidents and Henry Kissenger, “obtained many tapes and some signed statements on paper from the actors and actresses who performed at the Hackmatack Playhouse during the summer stock season of 1973. One discusses Sally being told “her mother (Linda) would be “killed” if Sally returned to New York. All kinds of testimony alleged that when the actors worked at Carleton Guptill many where believing and alleged that the crops were being sprayed with a variant of Agent Orange called C-300. This derivative was supposedly harmless to people, was supposedly beneficial to crops, supposedly enhanced their size and speed of growth, their quality and taste. The young performers at Berwick had a regular diet of these C-300 sprayed crops.” [Just FYI… Michael Guptill it was said was appointed by the Department of Agriculture Chief Inspector of all fruits and vegetables leaving the state of Maine.] OK.. now the biggest clue….
• “The day after a body was discovered on West 176th Street, “Sally Synder” was driven to Boston, where she checked into a hotel, stayed a few days, then disappeared. The man who drove Sally there is a nephew of Watergate plumber, Martinez. He showed one of the investigators his phone bill to verify his claim that he had received a collect call from Sally from Boston AFTER the police removed the first body from her apartment!” Might want to read that paragraph again! Ok… now ready to go to Sally might still be a live clue’s….
• Linda hired Daniel Hollman (former United States Attorney, who set up for the Justice Department the New York Organized Crime Strike Force and the Government Witness Relocation Program, who worked with James Steinberg on various occasions in connection with these) & Matthew Byrne (legal counsel to the New York Police Department at the time of Sally’s disappearance and Hollman’s law partner) to research Sally’s alleged death! Are you ready? When Hollman and Byrne made a search for the file on Sally, which police witnesses declared in written statements was “more than five inches thick”, it had MYSTERIOUSLY VANISHED FROM THE DA’S OFFICE!” Ok… I’ll wait and let you re-read that sentence! Yeah, the entire file had mysteriously vanished from the DA’s office. Ok, moving right along… “Later, that same former assistant district attorney, out of office, and then in private practice in New Jersey, contacted Linda, told her he believed all she was saying, and offered his help in locating the missing Sally.” Yeah.. that’s right he wanted to help Linda find her daughter Sally! How rich is that one. “He said he would be in touch with her after he returned from a trip to Tuscon, Arizona”. (I know the spelling on Tuscon look strange, however, it’s the exact spelling in Linda’s Outline of Projected Book. ) He did not contact Linda again. More….
• “In the Spring of 1980, Linda and her investigators received a TIP that Sally was living in Tuscon, Arizona, working in a government underwritten greenhouse, where it was alleged she had undergone a nervous breakdown and had been taken to the University of Arizona hospital. When Linda and her investigators arrived several people of credibility recognized and infallibly identified photo’s of Sally, and it was learned she’d been living under a different name, in a run down house on the edge of Tuscon, with SEVERAL former students of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts!”

The photo I’m sharing with this loving forum to “Linda’s Life” was given to me from Linda Goodman herself. I took this photo to a radionics specialist to determine if Sally was still alive in 1993… upon Linda’s request! The results were that Sally’s energies were no longer on the planet……………….. Believe what you may… you’re all entitled to your free will choices… I’m just sharing from Linda’s “Outline of her Projected Book, entitled: SPIDER LINE, Linda Goodman’s Search for Sally”.

posted October 27, 2007 10:42 PM            

This has been an emotional journey coming into this forum... and now it's ALL on the record... for all of Linda's fans to enjoy... It's been 12 years since her death and I can't believe more of this information hasn't been shared.

Linda's been in my dreams and I believe she has manifested this sharing... most likely even manifested it when the very first posting came up on this forum... the one my webmaster said I had to come and post on... as they say Nothing Happens As An Accident!

Having spent many days reading the incredible amount of posting on this site, and all the questions from fans who loved Linda... I just felt compelled to share.. along with the nagging voice inside my head.. and top it off with the visitations in my dreams from Linda..

There you go my girlfriend you can rest now... Big Bear hug, BiBi

posted October 27, 2007 11:06 PM              

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posted October 28, 2007 03:55 PM              

Silverstone

posted November 16, 2007 01:34 PM            

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Eager, Henry & co. 000301 Filed statement of directors with U.S. Treasury on April 28, 1865, attested to by Clerk of Court, Brooklyn, New York on April 26, 1865. (Pg. 73: register of Agency Officers; N.A.) Articles filed with Clerk of Court, Brooklyn, N. Y. for registration on April 19, 1865. (Court Record; Circuit Court, Brooklyn, N. Y.) Attorney of record — Richard DeMill Eager, Henry & Company See 000301 Cotton & Captured Property Records: National Archives; Eager & Co., Henry J.; Agricultural Pass 10,000 bales C. ; No. 17656; Do. 10,000 bales 17468; Do. 10,000 bales 17500; Eager & Co. Henry J. Contract 16991; do. do. 18568; Eager & Co. Henry J. Agency Officers; attested to by Clerk of Court, Brooklyn, N.Y. pg. 73; Register; Agency Officers: Henry J. Eager, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Roswell E. Goodell, Illinois; John McInnis, Illinois (McGinnis) Eager, Henry J. 000536 See also Henry J. Eager & Co. & 301 Eager Cotton Pass Eager, Henry J. & Company 000864 L. C. Baker; John McGinnis; OTTO

posted November 17, 2007 02:00 PM            

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posted November 23, 2007 03:10 PM            

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln#Prairie_lawyer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln#Lincoln_in_art_and_popular_culture

posted November 23, 2007 08:22 PM            

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The blood on the bed and walls was tested… guess what NOT Sally’s blood type? Is this getting really weird by now?? “Professor Ray Neff, of Indiana State University (Toxicologist and recognized expert in pathology, from Indiana State University, formerly Coroner in New Jersey for many years) verified that the blood found in the apartment was not Sally’s blood type, and that the hair on the telephone was not Sally’s hair, compared with standards of childhood from her baby book.” Still more…

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posted November 23, 2007 08:29 PM            

Ray Neff
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dr. Ray Neff a retired health sciences professor at Indiana State University with a chemistry background is a leading proponent of an alternative history theory about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and his killer John Wilkes Booth.
Neff is the co-author of Dark Union along with Leonard Guttridge. The book proposes an alternative view to the conventional version of Lincoln's assassination. While it mentions the theory that Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton was involved in the assassination conspiracy, the book dismisses it and suggests that John Wilkes Booth took on the role of assassin largely for personal reasons. Dark Union also contends that Booth escaped, eventually settling in India, as it was James W. Boyd who was actually shot in the barn at Garrett's farm. Indiana State University houses a collection of materials, some of which has been digitized and been made available for online viewing. This theory is in marked contrast with the version of the assassination proposed by Edward Steers, Jr.
Neff is also one of many historians who traces the roots of Lincoln's assassination to the Dahlgren Affair - one of very few areas where he and Steers agree.
• Neff-Guttridge Collection of Lincoln assassination and related materials at Indiana State University
http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Neff.htm

posted November 23, 2007 08:45 PM            

It was on the tenth of April, sixty-five, when I first knew that the plan was in action. Ecert [Major Thomas T. Eckert, in charge of military telegraph headquarters at the War Department] had made all the contacts, the deed to be done on the fourteenth. I did not know the identity of the assassin, but I knew most all else when I approached E.S. [Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War] about it. He at once acted surprised and disbelieving. Later he said: "You are a party to it too. Let us wait and see what comes of it and then we will know better how to act in the matter." I soon discovered what he meant that I was a party to it when the following day I was shown a document that I knew to be a forgery but a clever one, which made it appear that I had been in charge of a plot to kidnap the President, the Vice-President being the instigator. Then I became a party to that deed even though I did not care to.
On the thirteenth he discovered that the President had ordered that the Legislature of Virginia be allowed to assemble to withdraw that state's troops from action against the U.S. He [Stanton] fermented immediately into an insane tyrade [sic]. Then for the first time I realised his mental disunity and his insane and fanatical hatred for the President. There are few in the War Department that respect the President or his strategy, but there are not many who would countermand an order that the President had given. However, during that insane moment, he sent a telegram to Gen. Weitzel countermanding the President's order of the twelfth. Then he laughed in a most spine chilling manner and said: "If he would to know who recinded [sic] his order we will let Lucifer tell him. Be off, Tom, and see to the arrangements. There can be no mistakes." This is the first that I knew that he was the one responsible for the assassination plot. Always before I thought that either he did not trust me, for he really trusted no one, or he was protecting someone until it was to his benefit to expose them. But now I know the truth and it frightens me no end. I fear that somehow I may become the sacrificial goat.
There were at least eleven members of Congress involved in the plot, no less than twelve Army officers, three Naval officers and at least twenty four civilians, of which one was a governor of a loyal state. Five were bankers of great repute, three were nationally known newspapermen and eleven were industrialists of great repute and wealth. There were probably more that I know nothing of.
The names of these known conspirators is presented without comment or notation in Vol one of this series. Eighty-five thousand dollars was contributed by the named persons to pay for the deed. Only eight persons knew the details of the plot and the identity of the others. I fear for my life, L.C.B. [Lafayette C. Baker]

posted November 23, 2007 08:52 PM            

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