Surratt Conference Update

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Bad news yesterday - Good news today. It's wonderful to have friends in scholarly fields. Dr. Blaine Houmes of this forum has stepped forth to fill the vacancy left on our conference agenda by Mr. Emerson. Blaine has spoken to our group before on medical issues related to the assassination and is always a crowd-pleaser.

With short notice, he has volunteered to extend our theme of "Collateral Damage" related to Lincoln's assassination into the medical realms of the effects on the Sewards and on Stanton (the latter being someone that we often view as the villain instead of a victim!). He will also give his views on the comparison of Lincoln's wound as opposed to that of JFK.

Thank you, kind sir...