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(09-21-2014 09:24 AM)Dave Taylor Wrote:  While I do not think Art wrote any other books (the thought is a tantalizing one though), he did have a couple scholarly articles published in the Lincoln Herald.

In 1979, Art has his article "The Mystery of the Telegraph Interruption" published. This article described how, on the night of the assassination, one of the public telegraph lines went down. Authors like Eisenschiml twisted this saying that all the telegraph lines went down in his attempt to blame Secretary Stanton for the assassination. During his research into the matter, Art met the grandson of the man who cut the telegraph line and wrote this wonderful article about it, forever putting the matter to rest.


article states, not only was William Heiss, the man who shut down his own telegraph line related to an actor present at Ford's Theatre, but he also later made the acquaintance of Dr. Mudd while he was imprisoned at Fort Jefferson. Art, during his visit to Mr. Heiss' grandson, snapped these two pictures of the cane Dr. Mudd made as a thank you.









I'm sure Art also did countless articles for other publications like the Surratt Courier, as well. He was a very talented and knowledgeable man.

I may be wrong, but for some reason I want to say that Art's research on disproving the old lie about all the telegraph lines being shut down at the time of the assassination first appeared in an article for the Surratt Courier and was then picked up by the Lincoln Herald. His research on that subject really stabbed one of the Eisenschiml canards through the heart.