Anna Surratt interview

[RJNorton]

Hi Heath. If you click on the link I posted it should open for you if you have a program on your computer (such as Adobe Reader) that will open .pdf files. The article will be on the right side of your screen, and Betty colorfully highlighted it. It's almost assuredly quite an embellishment on Mathews' part; author and expert Ed Steers has written that Mathews likely used Booth's "To Whom It May Concern" letter to reconstruct the burned letter from 1865.

I do not recall the name of the writer, but I have a recollection that at least one writer/author has written that Mathews concocted the story of the letter from the very beginning. This writer feels no letter ever existed, and Mathews made the whole story up. At this moment in time I have forgotten which author this was, but I know I read his viewpoint on the letter somewhere.