Mary Surratt's Denial of Lewis Powell

[Laurie Verge]

Bill does lean towards the Come Retribution angle more now. He was also influenced by Mr. Hall during the writing of the Conspiracies book and told me that he changed some of his ideas after Mr. Hall showed him the light.

A similar thing happened when Mr. Hall was interviewed by Doris Kearns Goodwin while she was researching Team of Rivals. Nora Titone, author of the Booth book, was Ms. Goodwin's research assistant and later told me that Goodwin took a softer approach on Edwin Stanton after talking with Mr. Hall. In fact, she sent me a note to that effect and asked me to forward it to Mr. Hall shortly before his death. Unfortunately, he passed before Team of Rivals was published.