Tarbell on Otto Eisenschiml

[BettyO]

(07-26-2012 01:37 PM)LincolnMan Wrote:  I own a first edition copy.of "Why was Lincoln murdered?" I have never read it. I have heard that his contention is that Stanton was part of Lincoln's murder. Is that correct?

Yes -- I have that book as well as the other "In the Shadow of Lincoln's Death"....the whole synopsis is that Stanton and perhaps others in the cabinet were in on the assassination. In 1965, Vaughn Shelton followed along the same lines with "Mask of Treason" in which he claims that Lew Paine (notice that I said "PAINE") was innocent and hanged for the deeds of his "evil cousin", Lew Powell. Yes, he surmised that they were two different people! And this he stated in a later book was all done by clairvoyance in that his wife, who was a "medium" , "channeled" the ghost of Lew Powell, who told him the truth....Boo!!

HA!