What Really Happened - The Lincoln Assassination

[Dennis Urban]

Tom Bogar should not be faulted for not specifically remembering this one passage in his book. All of us who have written many times have to look back to check or question our own facts when we read them later. The "fifty cents" statement appears on page 107 in Chapter 7. Mr. Bogar's end notes for that chapter reference newspaper articles many years after the incident. Two notes are attributed to interviews with Harry C Ford twenty years later. I suspect that this "fifty cent" reference most likely came from one of the H C Ford interviews based on his memory. True or not, he may have received the story directly from Burroughs. While an interesting aside to what occurred, the general facts have not changed. Peanut held the horse, took a beating for it, and passed into history.