The Milln-Dollar Man Who Helped Kill a Print: Gee Washgton Gayle and the Assassatn of Abraham Lln by Christopher McIlwa | Goodreads

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• THE MILLN-DOLLAR MAN WHO HELPED KILL A PRINT: GEE WASHGTON GAYLE AND THE ASSASSATN OF ABRAHAM LLN
• GEE WASHGTON GAYLE
• THE MILLN-DOLLAR MAN WHO HELPED KILL A PRINT: GEE WASHGTON GAYLE AND THE ASSASSATN OF ABRAHAM LLN
• GEE-LEVI GAYLE
• GEE-LEVI GAYLE
• GAYLE WALD

THE MILLN-DOLLAR MAN WHO HELPED KILL A PRINT: GEE WASHGTON GAYLE AND THE ASSASSATN OF ABRAHAM LLN

The ln-dollar man who helped kill a print: Gee Washgton Gayle and the assassatn of Abraham Lln. Gee Washgton Gayle is not a name known to history.

GEE WASHGTON GAYLE

's Untried and Unpunished: Gee Washgton Gayle and the Assassatn of Abraham Lln expos the fallaci regardg each of those theori and reveals both the mastermd behd the plot, and s te motivatn. The adly scheme to kill Lln, Vice Print Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Seward was Gayle's brachild. The assasss were motivated by money Gayle raised.

Gayle, a proment South Carola-born Alabama lawyer, had been a Unnist and Jacksonian Democrat before walkg the road of radilizatn followg the admissn of California as a ee state 1850. After the slayg of the print Gayle was arrted and taken to Washgton, DC chas to be tried by a ary tribunal for nspiracy nnectn wh the horrendo crim.

The Northern prs was satisfied Gayle was behd the ed--pecially when was disvered he had placed an advertisement a newspaper the prev December solicg donatns to pay the assasss.

THE MILLN-DOLLAR MAN WHO HELPED KILL A PRINT: GEE WASHGTON GAYLE AND THE ASSASSATN OF ABRAHAM LLN

There is ltle doubt that if Gayle had been tried, he would have been nvicted and executed.

Gayle, Gee Washgton, 1807-1875.

Gee Washgton Gayle and the assassatn of Abraham Lln. "(Source: Wikimedia Commons)Dallas CountyGee Washgton Gayle, threatened to assassate Lln, 1807-1875 Gee Washgton Gayle, born South Carola 1807, was an attorney who served the Alabama Legislature, chaired the Hoe Ways and Means Commtee and was appoted U. In 1864, Gayle ma headl when he paid to publish an ad  The Selma Dispatch seekg funds exchange for plottg the murrs of Lln, Vice Print Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward, the same three men who were targeted John Wilk Booth's assassatn plot.

GEE-LEVI GAYLE

Lln was assassated four months later and Gayle was arrted Alabama on May 25, 1865. Gayle claimed the ad was meant as but was nvicted.

GEE-LEVI GAYLE

In 1867, Gayle received a full pardon om Andrew Johnson. ​The Milln-Dollar Man Who Helped Kill a Print: Gee Washgton Gayle and the Assassatn of Abraham LlnChristopher Lyle McIlwa, Beatie, 2018, 265 pgs., $32. But what about the man named Gee Washgton Gayle and his volvement?

GAYLE WALD

But who is Gee Washgton Gayle, and why is he so important to the story? Gayle was one of the leadg lawyers Alabama, a nnectn our ma character shar wh the thor, and was a Unnist for que some time.

In 1864, Gayle created an ad statg that if he was given one ln dollars, wh fifty thoand advance, he would set forth motn the plan to elimate Lln, Johnson, and Seward. Gayle would eventually be arrted and taken to Washgton D. Gayle’s story this book tak to a different level of the Lln assassatn, one that brgs sufficient rearch to the subject and prents new material.

’s The Milln-Dollar Man Who Helped Kill a Print: Gee Washgton Gayle and the Assassatn of Abraham Lln expos the fallaci regardg each of those theori and reveals both the mastermd behd the plot, and s te adly scheme to kill Lln, Vice Print Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Seward was Gayle’s brachild.