Lincoln Discussion Symposium

I had never seen a photo of William Crook, and thought I would share this one from Seale's White House book that I'm reading. I know there is some debate about Crook's recollection of his last conversation with Lincoln.

Heath
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The first time I saw that photo, I thought that those eyes alone would scare the beejeebies our of me!

He does look rather intense. I've heard that his recollection of the Lincoln "goodbye" comment may have never been said.

True, Bill. In Ed Steers' assassination encyclopedia the author writes, "Historian William Hanchett has shown that these (i.e. Crook's) recollections and other reminisces Crook writes about fall into the myth category, related at a time late in Crook's life when there was no one left alive to refute them.....Because of this Crook cannot be considered a trustworthy source on the events surrounding Lincoln's assassination."

Heath, here's another picture of him:
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Many thanks to Jim Garrett for sending a photo of the Crook gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery. In his message Jim mentioned that he and Rich Smyth are busily working on volume 2 of "Where Are They Now."

It looks like his tombstone is on the border of where the veterans are buried- or is he buried among them? I kind of thought there would be something on the grave to indicate his relationship to Lincoln.

Col. William Crook is in section 15. He has one of the few individual style headstones in that section.