Unwanted Facts: Facts that Most Books on the Lincoln Assassination Ignore

[Gene C]

(12-06-2018 03:52 PM)mikegriffith1 Wrote:  In reading through the gift shop’s list of books for sale, one sees an extreme bias in favor of the military commission’s story. Out of the 40-plus Lincoln assassination books on the list, only two challenge the military commission’s version.

In fact, even after all we have long known about the bogus nature of much of the military commission’s evidence, especially its Confederate conspiracy theory, some of the books offered at the gift shop double-down on that theory, and one of them even goes to the ludicrous extreme of suggesting that General George McClellan might have been involved in an assassination plot against Lincoln!

You would think that since the Surratt House Museum receives taxpayer money, its staff would ensure that the gift shop offered a more balanced selection of books. You would also think that the staff would feel some moral obligation, or at least some sense of basic fairness, to carry a few more books that defend Mary Surratt, especially since they are getting paid to run her house as a museum.

Your comments about what books the Surratt House sells and doesn't sell has only served to raise my respect for the staff there.
Mike, you have made some interesting posts full of different information, but I haven't seen to many people responding favorably to your comments and jumping on your bandwagon.

Here is an item to consider. Maybe the books you think they should sell most people don't want to buy.
I would frown upon an organization that receives taxpayer money selling books nobody wants.

Using logic, this may be an opportunity for you to open your own bookstore and sell the books that the Surratt House Museum does not want to sell.
If your analysis is correct, you should do quite well. Maybe you can sell some James Boyd bobble heads, you would have a monopoly on those.