Lincoln's Magician

[Gene C]

I Googled "Harry Cooke" and found a couple of interesting articles on line,

http://www.themagicdetective.com/2011/08...art-6.html

I'm a bit skeptical about some of the info in this one, such as....
"Harry had always been bothered by the theft of his Lincoln Letter by Mosby's Raiders and decided to try and get a copy from the President himself. In April 1865, Cooke went to the White House in Washington to see Mr. Lincoln. Upon arriving at the White House he was told that Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln had left for an evening at Fords Theatre. Harry Cooke went to Fords Theatre, where the President and First Lady were watching the play "Our American Cousin". A short time after Harry Cooke arrived a loud shot rang out, and well, the rest is history. Cooke was there, in the audience, as John Wilkes Booth shot the President and then jumped to the stage and out the back doors of Fords Theatre."

This one is about Houdini and Cooke, and Houdini interest in Lincoln
http://weeklyview.net/2017/06/15/harry-h...m-lincoln/

This article from an unknown newspaper in the internet archives.....
https://archive.org/details/remini00linc/page/n5