In 1917 Tarbell received a letter from a prosecutor in the southern Indiana town of Vincennes telling her she was being subpoenaed along with Robert Todd Lincoln and others for a criminal trial. Neither she nor RTL had to testify.
What was the trial about?
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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.