Correcting History

[Jim Garrett]

There was a Washington Post Sunday magazine article about 15 years ago about a doctor's visit to Rathbone at the asylum. Before he was allowed to examine the Major, the director of the asylum made it clear that two topics were off limits. No questions about the night of the assassination and no questions about murdering his wife. Rathbone was rather frail. He didn't quite live like the other inmates. Rathbone had an apartment within the asylum that included a dining room and a library. A special thanks to Sandra Walia from the Surratt Society's James O. Hall Research Library. She helped me dig through the files Mr. Hall had collected on anything and everything even remotely related to the Lincoln Assassination.