Louis Weichmann

[L Verge]

"It was forgotten until Weichmann’s great niece offered it to Minnesota collector Floyd Risvold, who acquired it for an undisclosed sum and saw to its publication (by Alfred Knopf) in 1975. The memoir turned out to be nothing more than a self-serving vindication, full of cleverly twisted statements, inconsistencies, contradictions, tampering with dates, and perhaps even a few fabrications. (Risvold later told the Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin that from his own research he was sure Mrs. Surratt knew about the kidnap plot.)"

Critique is part of a full article on Oldroyd meeting Weichmann written by Lincoln/Lincoln assassination expert Richard Sloan. The article appeared in a 2012 issue of the newsletter of the Lincoln Forum. Richard is the one who discovered letters of correspondence between Oldroyd and Weichmann (I believe including Oldroyd's decision to let Weichmann write his own chapter in Oldroyd's classic).