Fascinating, informative, this book will make you rethink all you learned previously about the Lincoln assassination.
April 26, 1865, 2:45 A.M.: Lt. Col. Everton Conger, United States Army, intently watched the man inside Richard Garrett’s burning barn. He watched as the man threw down his weapon to surrender to the 16th New York Cavalry. A shot rang out and the unarmed man fell to the ground. Lt. Luther Baker and some enlisted men entered the barn and carried the man to the veranda of Richard Garrett’s house. Col. Conger stayed there for ten minutes emptying the man’s pockets before leaving for Washington. The man, in the meantime, had died. Lt. Edward Doherty, commanding officer of the Sixteenth United States Cavalry had a huge problem. The dead man did not look like John Wilkes Booth. Doherty had the task of getting the body to Washington for identification and then of disposing of it. The trick was to do so without arousing the suspicions of the citizens who were desperately awaiting news about the man who killed President Lincoln. This is the story of the assassination whose perpetrators were hidden for 150 years. The meticulous preparations of the conspirators are brought to light by the documents and evidence that was collected at the time, but obscured from public view in the national archives.
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A new examination of the facts surrounding the violent death of President Abraham Lincoln gathered by a retired naval officer and surgeon/coroner raises many valid questions about the generally accepted story of that assassination and its aftermath.
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The author has done an amazing job putting together the information and presenting it in ...
Fascinating, informative, this book will make you rethink all you learned previously about the Lincoln assassination. The author has done an amazing job putting together the information and presenting it in this book. All history buffs should certainly read this book. Whether you agree or not, it's certainly going to make you think.
Excellent book.
Excellent book.
What I like about this book
I've never been one to put much weight into conspiracy theories, because most of them that I have seen and heard about are largely based on opinions and wildly unbelievable ideas. What I like about this book, is that the case laid out for the reader is based off of facts and loopholes found in the documents of Abraham Lincoln's assassination that are kept in the National Archives. There are many written testimonies, in their original form shown in pictures, throughout the book. Some of them are so worn and/or blurry that it's hard to read them and I don't know if it's just that way in the advance reader copy that I received and it will be better for the actual release or not, but even then, many of them are also easily legible for the reader.
Author Robert Arnold makes some startling points about people that were involved in the assassination of Abe and those who aided in John Wilkes Booth's escape. There is no question that Booth killed Lincoln, but some of the facts that Arnold unearths in this book are truly shocking. The most jaw dropping findings to me that he shows you, without question, implements Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in his role of helping with the assassination. There are too many situations that he shows you through the facts of the case for him to have not been involved in it.
The information in this book that lays out the case that John Wilkes Booth was in fact never killed, but rather another man was murdered in his place and told to the public that it was Booth who died in a barn shoot out a few weeks after Lincoln's assassination is very intriguing
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