Program on C-Span this weekend

[RJNorton]

That's right, Joe. That is what I was thinking of also as it's the only reference I can think of regarding Booth inquiring about the order of succession. And Coyle incorrectly told Booth that Seward was next in line after Johnson.

Coyle's memory of really having this April 14, 1865, discussion with Booth is a question mark in my mind. I checked the article entitled "Why Seward?" by Michael Maione and James O. Hall in the Spring 1998 edition of the Lincoln Herald. The Booth-Coyle conversation is cited in the article, and the authors' source is an article by Coyle in the Washington Post of April 17, 1898. So we are relying on Coyle's memory 33 years after his conversation with Booth allegedly occurred.