A Wonderful Find ...

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Gene - I don't know how you got this to be in good enough shape to read it! I had to go to my treasured copy (worn with age) to be able to make out anything. Even it is difficult to decipher because the photos were taken back in the 1970s with a ca. 1960 Polaroid camera (one of the first of its kind, I believe). Mr. Brennan and his cameras is a topic for conversation unto itself...

About twenty years ago, I took the material to a professional printer and asked if it could be cleanly copied, or better yet, more professionally laid out for further generations to enjoy. I thought the printer would have a stroke. There is a lot more to "clean copy" than what it took for Mr. Brennan to tape his Polaroid photos above the captions and run it through the copy machine.

This Primer, however, is truly a collectors' item as well as some darn good history. If you ever run across a copy, grab it. P.S. His list of Acknowledgements in the front is a Who's Who of original Boothies. And, Rich Smyth would enjoy the inclusion of some tombstones in the booklet. I believe that Mr. B. was the first put such photos into print.

BTW: We are now known as Boothies - and we were known as that in the 1970s too. HOWEVER, it was a term of scorn at that time, given to us by the established Lincoln community that looked down on those of us who were interested in the assassination story. I'm afraid that many in that day thought that "Boothies" had to dislike Mr. Lincoln if they were interested in his murder. It has taken a long time for us to convince some (not yet all) that one can be interested in the whole Mr. Lincoln at the same time that we are intrigued with the assassination.

Nuts like Betty and I and so many others have always called ourselves "Booth Buffs."