Louis Weichmann

[L Verge]

I believe that someone (Hall or Kauffman) found a statement by Louis years ago in which he said that the reporters never spelled his name correctly, so he gave up and went by the Weichmann spelling. In the first book that we compiled of the best assassination articles from the Surratt Courier (In Pursuit Of...), we explained this in the introduction - as well as the correct spelling of O'Laughlen.

When Bill Richter wants to drive me crazy, he knows to switch to Spanish on me. Several years ago, the agency that owns Surratt House required that I take a course called Community Spanish. I hated it! Why? Because I had minored in French in college, and my French ear and dialect could not adjust to the South American Spanish of the instructor. He laughed at me and enjoyed it, but it frustrated the heck out of me. And, it had been over forty years since I had been immersed in French - but it still came through.