Louis Weichmann

[Susan Higginbotham]

(10-10-2015 07:35 AM)Pamela Wrote:  

(10-09-2015 07:05 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Pamela, do you perhaps know the answer to Roger's question here?
http://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussio...-2691.html

I've never seen his middle name. His high school diploma is hand lettered Louis Weichmann. Risvold interesting occassions for different spellings of his name.

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Susan, I responded to your suggestion of a "bright pupil" with a sample of Abel's report that demonstrates that he wasn't bright, imo. Have you read the report? When I read it I hear the voice of a twelve year old which is weird considering that he was 83 at the time he wrote it. My take is that Abel was aware of a manuscript and another manuscript which was actually a copy but at the suggestion of his clergy became a second book. His recollection of the content went about as far as, Weichmann was the main or only witness in the assassination trial. He never read it, he never took it home with him. I think Weichmann may have told him some incidents in the story which He either misremembered or never understood to begin with.

I've read excerpts from it. It reads to me like the writing of someone who was reasonably intelligent, especially when one considers Abel's patchy education and his advanced age. But it's all in the eye of the beholder, and the older my eyes get, the less I am inclined to say "never."