Was there an assassin on Grant's train?

[Pamela]

Maybe the most redeeming quality of John Surratt's was that he had the decency to spare the world his self-serving Weichmann -slandering version of historical events for 25 years, and thank goodness wasn't able to concoct a book. Who knows how many cliffs he would have jumped from, enemy soldiers he would have charmed and other imaginative examples of derring do he might have invented.

I always enjoy that quote from John's lecture where he uses the word "importuning". Another fun Surrattism was in the Hanson Hiss interview, "the child is father to the man" when trashing his favorite victim. Maybe that's another positive character trait--a talent for fiction writing.

As for Sam Arnold's statement that Weichmann passed on information to Booth from his job--that sounds like something Booth would tell Arnold to try and impress him, keep him in the conspiracy and compromise Weichmann. "We placed Weichmann inside the War Dept. and passes on information to us." Or words to that effect. Who was the bigger liar, Booth or Surratt? That's a tough one. And even the Arnold statement years later didn't put Weichmann in the conspiracy to kill or "kidnap" Lincoln.