Louis Weichmann

[Pamela]

(10-09-2015 06:05 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Pamela, do you perhaps know the answer to Roger's question here?
http://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussio...-2691.html

I've never seen his middle name. His high school diploma is hand lettered Louis Weichmann. Risvold lists examples of occasions when his name was spelled slightly different.

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Susan, I responded to your suggestion of a "bright pupil" with a sample of Abel's report that demonstrates that he wasn't bright, imo. Have you read the report? When I read it I hear the voice of a twelve year old which is weird considering that he was 83 at the time he wrote it. My take is that Abel was aware of a manuscript and another manuscript which was actually a copy but at the suggestion of his clergy became a second book. His recollection of the content went about as far as, Weichmann was the main or only witness in the assassination trial. He never read it, he never took it home with him. I think Weichmann may have told him some incidents in the story which He either misremembered or never understood to begin with.