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Goodbye, Crook - Rhatkinson - 11-10-2013 09:45 AM I had never seen a photo of William Crook, and thought I would share this one from Seale's White House book that I'm reading. I know there is some debate about Crook's recollection of his last conversation with Lincoln. Heath [attachment=282] RE: Goodbye, Crook - L Verge - 11-10-2013 11:17 AM The first time I saw that photo, I thought that those eyes alone would scare the beejeebies our of me! RE: Goodbye, Crook - LincolnMan - 11-10-2013 12:18 PM He does look rather intense. I've heard that his recollection of the Lincoln "goodbye" comment may have never been said. RE: Goodbye, Crook - RJNorton - 11-10-2013 12:23 PM True, Bill. In Ed Steers' assassination encyclopedia the author writes, "Historian William Hanchett has shown that these (i.e. Crook's) recollections and other reminisces Crook writes about fall into the myth category, related at a time late in Crook's life when there was no one left alive to refute them.....Because of this Crook cannot be considered a trustworthy source on the events surrounding Lincoln's assassination." RE: Goodbye, Crook - Eva Elisabeth - 11-10-2013 04:55 PM Heath, here's another picture of him: [attachment=283] RE: Goodbye, Crook - RJNorton - 11-11-2013 01:46 PM Many thanks to Jim Garrett for sending a photo of the Crook gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery. In his message Jim mentioned that he and Rich Smyth are busily working on volume 2 of "Where Are They Now." RE: Goodbye, Crook - LincolnMan - 11-11-2013 01:52 PM It looks like his tombstone is on the border of where the veterans are buried- or is he buried among them? I kind of thought there would be something on the grave to indicate his relationship to Lincoln. RE: Goodbye, Crook - Jim Garrett - 11-11-2013 03:06 PM Col. William Crook is in section 15. He has one of the few individual style headstones in that section.