Through Five Administrations

[RJNorton]

For me the most interesting part of Crook's book is the blame he places on John Parker for the president's assassination. Some top Lincoln assassination historians give Parker a break and say that Parker was at Ford's more as an escort, not as a guard for the president. Crook disagrees. He wrote, "Yet had he done his duty, I believe President Lincoln would not have been murdered by Booth. The man was John Parker."