The New York Crowd

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I have started following up on information provided in this thread. Since I have not read Dr. Merritt's testimony, I started with that. In CR, Tidwell says on Pg 3. "Dr. James B. Merritt and Charles A. Dunham, aka Sanford Conover, whose testimony was questionable at best and in many ways and in many instances outright perjury."
Pg 329. CR. "...look at the trial testimony of Sanford... Hyams... Dr. James B. Merritt..." Perjury rank perjury...
In The Incredible Plot of Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt" by James W. Thompson. "The stories told by two paid informers of the War Office, Richard Montgomery and Dr. James B. Merritt...their stories had never been given under oath or reduced to writing..."
In addition, I found in AB Pg 466 Note 2, " In reality, Booth was not related to Beall and had not attended U of VA with Beall. ... It is unlikely they ever knew each other at all".
I am trying to avoid questionable quotes in this search, even if they have been used so often that we are accepting them as fact.
I still don't know much about Merritt, but I will study him more. (He was born in Canada, which leads me to believe he hung-out with the Rebs up there. That is "IMO".