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(06-07-2017 03:28 PM)Gene C Wrote:  June 25, 2017 at 2 PM
in Ft Wayne, IN

Program - The Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trials & Their Aftermath

https://www.lincolncollection.org/access...ps-events/

The Hon. Judge Cosbey's press release already has one thing wrong - there were eight conspirators put on trial, not seven. And I am not counting John Surratt for the 1865 Trial. Guess who is being left out of the count.

We have a very interesting retired law professor from Widener University lined up for our April conference. Dr. Thomas Reed is the author of Avenging Lincoln's Death and has found many legal flaws in the trial itself as well as how authors over the years have erred in their analyses.

Other speakers and topics to be announced in full later will be our own Susan Higginbotham speaking on the ladies (or lack of) in John Surratt's life; Dr. Jon Willen speaking in depth about the life of Dr. Charles Leale; forum member Wes Harris will conduct his own CSI interpretation about the "skill" of the detectives; Dave Taylor will talk on the national reaction to the death of Lincoln; and Richard Willing, formerly of USA Today and who covered the Free Dr. Mudd trials and tribulations movement by the Mudd family, will offer thoughts on Muddy Waters (but with a different twist than what you are imagining).

I just need my hoped-for banquet speaker to respond to my invitation. I am hoping for an acceptance from Brady Carlson of NPR in New Hampshire and author of the very informative and cleverly written book, Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of our Nation's Leaders. I would never consider a talk about death from an after-dinner speaker, but the book is so entertaining that I could not resist!

I am still struggling with a title for the overall conference since I'm mixing so many apples and oranges... Please Gene and Thomas, don't offer a cutesy one 'cause you know I will get irritated. Pressures at work right now are beating down my sense of humor.