Killing Lincoln: The Real Story

[Susan Higginbotham]

Why was it necessary for Stanton to handle the cross-examination of Louis Weichmann by himself at the tribunal? I find this suspicious as well.

Where in the trial transcript is it recorded that Stanton examined Weichmann? (He certainly wouldn't have been be cross-examining him--a government witness, such as Weichmann, is cross-examined by the defense, and vice versa). I'm aware that Stanton questioned Weichmann personally before the trial, but that's quite different from questioning him at the military trial itself.