Herold and Surratt

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Back in the late-1970s or early-1980s, John C. Brennan wanted to know who Hanson Hiss was also. I remember that he wrote an article for the Surratt Courier (a two-parter, I believe), but I don't remember what his conclusion was. I'm at home, and the books are at work, but I think Mr. Brennan's article(s) are in Volume I of the three volumes that we have published to date on the best assassination articles from the Courier. Volume I is entitled In Pursuit Of... if anyone has it handy.

I also plead guilty to having once been shown railroad itineraries that had been researched by James O. Hall, leading him to conclude that Surratt could not have gotten back and forth in the time space that would have put him in D.C. on the 14th. I can't quote from them off the top of my head, however. There is also mention somewhere of Surratt being under the "command" of Gen. E.G. Lee at that point and would be following his dictates, not Booth's. They were likely more involved in getting some of the Confederate treasury into Canada.