Footnotes, endnotes or online notes?

[Linda Anderson]

I found this on Wikipedia about Freedom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_(Safire_novel)

"Freedom blends the narrative recounting of actual historical events with fictional events invented by the author.
"' In general, the credibility quotient is this: if the scene deals with war or politics, it is fact; if it has to do with romance, it is fiction; if it is outrageously and obviously fictional, it is fact.'

"— William Safire, Note to the Reader"

Isn't that true of so many things that have to do with the assassination? To begin with, who would believe that a famous actor could actually shoot a president in a theater, jump to the stage in front of an audience that included soldiers, yell "Sic Semper Tyrannis" and then actually be able to escape? No one would believe that if it wasn't true.

Also, it would be hard to believe that both William and Fred Seward survived their ghastly wounds, that Powell returned to Mrs. Surratt's boarding house at the exact time the detectives were there questioning Mrs. Surratt, and that Davey Herold stayed with Booth even though he had plenty of opportunity to escape.