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Thank you to Bill Binzel for forwarding this to me:

"The Lincoln assassination has spawned a veritable library of writings over the past 150 years. Indeed, an actual Lincoln assassination library, the James O. Hall Research Center, sits a few miles from the scene of the crime, adjacent to the Surratt House Museum in Clinton, Maryland—what Sarah Vowell has appropriately dubbed the “Vatican of the Lincoln assassination subculture.” As with most great crimes, this one has engendered countless debates, controversies and conspiracy theories, sustaining what one might fairly call “Lincoln assassination studies.” The majority of accounts have been written by amateur sleuths and obsessives—nonacademic, nonprofessional authors who have devoted a remarkable portion of their lives, and their energies, to the subject. Having spent some time poring over the materials at the museum, and paid my nominal dues, I, too, am now a card-carrying member of the Surratt Society (which collects much of its revenue by hosting regular, twelve-hour-long John Wilkes Booth Escape Route tours). Every month, I receive “The Surratt Courier,” a newsletter chock full of new discoveries, revelations, artifacts, and fighting words."
-- Martin S. Lederman, "The Law (?) of the Lincoln Assassination," (2017), p. 6

[The full paper may be found at: http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cg...ext=facpub ]