Was Stanton a murder target?

[John Fazio]

John, I see you left out Booth's alleged mid-day conversation with John F. Coyle concerning Presidential succession. In fact the vast majority of assassination authors leave this out, I believe. Is this because many experts feel the whole thing may be apocryphal?

Roger:

I am familiar with the conversation between Booth and Coyle. It was an oversight on my part not to include it in Decapitating. I thought I had included it, but I checked and found that I am mistaken. I regret the error. I do not believe it is thought to be apocryphal. Several publishers insisted that I shorten the original manuscript. It may be the case that this conversation was excised for that reason. I do not remember.

John