Is there a list of the best Lincoln Assassination Consp. books for our library?

[RJNorton]

John, there should be a way to post it. Do you have a file of it? If so, just send it to me via file attachment, and I can upload it to my server and post it here. If not, we'll find another way. Mills wrote his book in 1994 (before he read your article). I should have said "at that time" it was a legitimate question! Sorry, John!! Overall, though, I think I'll stand by my original opinion on Mills. He asks some questions (examples: he is critical of Mudd's defenders and of John F. Parker's defenders) which I think are legitimate.

Mills writes that Stanton felt Booth was going to kidnap, not kill Lincoln. Given this scenario, he feels Eckert's presence would have made a difference. Mills writes, "Eckert could have twisted Booth like a pretzel." He feels Eckert was even stronger than Lewis Powell, whom he feels might have been there, too, had it been a kidnap plot (as he says Stanton envisioned) that night. Obviously we can argue whether or not that would have happened, but that is Mills' scenario.