Almarin Cooley Richards

[RJNorton]

John, regarding whether or not Richards was prone to fabrication, what is your opinion of the Orlando Sentinel article? (We discussed it in another thread.) Also, do you feel Ed Steers is simply wrong when he writes, "Richards gave several statements in the forty years following the assassination, all filled with inconsistencies and errors."

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http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1987...kes-eustis

"Former Police Chief Richards provided more details about his involvement with the historic event during a 1900 talk at Clifford Hall, according to a letter written in 1958 by former Eustis resident M.B. Gault. The letter now is in the hands of the Lake County Historical Society.

Gault wrote: ''At one of the entertainments given by some group, a Col. Richards came on the stage and told how he had been posted behind the box in which President Lincoln sat when he was shot. He said he jumped through the front of the box to get Booth, who got away, but he found on the stage a Bowie knife that Booth was supposed to have lost. And he Richards showed us the knife.''