"yellow journalism" harrassed Robert, Mary Harlan Lincoln & Lucy Hale w/Booth

[Alexander]

I've noticed that every 5-10 years since the assassination, there were explosive and shocking stories re-hashed about Lucy's relationship to Booth, Love triangles between Robert/ Lucy/Booth and stories popping about Booth having survived, married, fathered children, living in India, Brazil and finally dying in 1907 and being turned into a freak show exhibit. Wondered if there is any record of the journalists reaching out directly to them or of them reaching out to journalists or biographers to put the kibosh on dragging the story out again (I know Mary Harlan Lincoln stopped a book from being published about Robert and his mother mary todd lincoln's correspondance during her "asylum" years and that John Parker Hale fought to keep his daughter Lucy's name out of the papers directly after the assassination. And later, I think in 1878? Robert raged against a paper suggesting Lucy/Robert/Booth love triangle and claimed that he did not know either Booth or Lucy at the time(not true). But I was wondering if there were more confrontations between Lucy or her husband Chandler and the papers or Mary and Robert. For Lucy and Chandler, particularly, it must have been hard to be faced with the media continually linking her to Booth, and I can't imagine what she must've thought when she read about Booth's "supposed" mummified corpse traveling in a sideshow. Wondering if anyone has anymore insight or info on how this harassment from the media might have affected them.