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[David Lockmiller]

(11-24-2022 04:48 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(11-19-2022 01:58 PM)David Lockmiller Wrote:  "The only personal request [Vinnie Ream] made of [President Lincoln] was that he sign a copy she had made of the Emancipation Proclamation. He signed it and had Secretary of State William Seward sign as well."

Does the author give a source for saying this is what happened?

The Source Notes are in order by chapter and show the final two Chapter 1 Notes to be from "VR interview, Washington Sunday Star, Feb. 9, 1913." The reference to the Vinnie Ream's Emancipation Proclamation request is on page 18 (next to last page of the chapter).

At the very beginning of the Notes section, the following statement is made:

"Unless otherwise noted, correspondence to and from Vinnie Ream [VR] along with material from her scrapbook and journals, are from the Papers of Vinnie Ream and Richard L. Hoxie [VPR] in the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division.

It stands to reason that the author, Edward S. Cooper, when given the opportunity to do research at the Library of Congress, would have thoroughly examined this ORIGINAL of Vinnie Ream's Emancipation Proclamation and would himself have discovered the fraud at the time, would then have notified appropriate Library of Congress staff, and made prominent note of these facts in his book that was published in 2004 (18 years ago).

Previously, I tried to find out more about the author. I did not find much. As I recall, he served in the military during World War II and later became a partner in a very successful electronics firm. The firm became so successful that the partners took turns taking sabbaticals to pursue personal interests. Edward S. Cooper became a researcher and writer of history. In the Acknowledgments section of the book, he wrote: "All the effort [researching and writing the book] would not have seen the light of day were it not for Anita Miller who had the courage to publish an unknown author."

All of this tends to indicate that the possible theft of the original Vinnie Ream copy of the Emancipation Proclamation may have occurred subsequent to the book being published in 2004. In fact, it may have been the book itself that led directly to the commission of the crime.