Derringer

[RJNorton]

I don't see how it's possible he could be a "Secret Service agent" working for President Grant secretly investigating the Lincoln assassination while also being a small farmer in rural Mississippi and frequently testifying on neighbors/friends behalf in Mississippi. Am I missing something here? If the "Philip Henson papers" do exist, why do they contradict both the account he gave during his lifetime and the records of his whereabouts. So, I don't see how the story of Henson giving Booth the derringer is credible, he didn't mention it in his 1887 account - even to just bemoan it!

It has long been my personal opinion that the Wikipedia article on Philip Henson was written by the late Rick Stelnick.