Tour of Lafayette Square & the White House Neighborhood!!

16th Street Northwest,Washington DC 20001

29 July, 2022

Description

Take a trip back into the wild history of D.C.’s most famous sites! Where: Meet at the General Jackson statue in the middle of Lafayette Square. What: Perhaps because of its proximity to great power and wealth, the White House, Treasury Building, and Lafayette Square have been witness to two centuries of mayhem and mischief, and even some positive events. We will visit many actual sites of espionage and bloodletting, drawing from the following: • The cunning Mata Hari who caused the deaths of hundreds of U.S. soldiers • The assassins who stalked Presidents near the White House • The Treasury spy whose treason led to Pearl Harbor • The Congressman who murdered a famous American • The sex scandal that wiped out an entire Cabinet • Terrifying White House ghost tales • The tragic end of a famous female artist • The greatest slave escape in American history • The hotel that birthed a scandalous Washington practice • The secret symbols within the Square’s architecture • John Wilkes Booth’s vast conspiracy • Graveyards and race tracks in the Square of old • An invading army’s destruction of the Executive Mansion • The femme fatale who nearly broke up Camelot • Where MLK wrote the “I Have a Dream Speech”, and where America’s most uplifting martial anthem was penned • The Civil War—of Alexander Hamilton! • The Midnight Ride of—not who’d you’d expect • Duels to the death in the Old Republic • A traitorous head of the U.S. Army And more!! Who: Your host is a former writer for Jay Leno’s “The Tonight Show”, the author of the book America from A to Z, a former presidential speechwriter, and writer of a book on the history of Lafayette Square: https://www.amazon.com/White-Houses-Unruly-Neighborhood-Lafayette-ebook/dp/B082ZVDCD7/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1555118270&sr=1-1-catcorr And his latest book on the secret history of the Capitol Building and Congress!: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-lost-history-of-the-capitol-edward-p-moser/1139708776 We’re on TripAdvisor: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28970-d12791843-Reviews-Lafayette_Square_Tour_of_Scandal_Assassination_Intrigue-Washington_DC_District_of.html Questions? Ask here, or at: [email protected] Think history’s boring? Think again!!