Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination

[Tom Bogar]

(02-02-2014 08:42 AM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Tom: the book continues to reveal new things for me. I had not known about the costume issue with John Matthews- and how Harry Hawk had "suspected" him because of it. That tid bit further illuminates how Matthews must have been completely terrified that he might be implicated in the murder.

I know. Even in 1878 he told the New York Herald, “I get a touch of the throat disease [i.e., hanging] whenever I think of it."