I love researching!

[L Verge]

I have never heard of that book, Roger; and I thought that almost every book about the assassination was monitored by our gift shop. Let me know what you think.

Reignette - I met Fred Schwengel several times back in the 1970s and 80s, when he was a driving force with the Lincoln Group of D.C. Very forceful Lincoln devotee, and I'm surprised that he couldn't move heaven and earth to get the Ford's Theatre project done on time.

Frank Hebblethwaite is the only one of the NPS Rangers that I know would have been around in the early days. I think Frank came in about ten years after the opening of the theater. E-mail me at laurie.verge@pgparks.com and I will supply a current e-mail for Frank. There's a whole new regime down there now.

I suspect that the cause for the delays was largely due to funding. Like nearly everywhere in the government world, anything pertaining to history takes a back seat at budget time.