Almarin Cooley Richards

[L Verge]

"This attempt to decide "exactly what happened at Ford's Theater" on April 14th, is going nowhere. If I drop back 5 or 10 years and wrote down all we knew about April 14th - you would not recognize it, as the tragic moment, when compared to all that we are posting now -- and quibbling about it.
Today we are relying on "carefully modified quotes", "laundered reports", "self idolizing" writings, by negligent officials, who scrambled to protect their own "backside".

"What happened to the story abut the humorous "sockdologizing" lines that produced an uproar of laughing and applauding, by the audience, that was scheduled to mask the pistol report? Richards says the stage was empty and all was quiet in the theater when he heard a dull thud - the shot, and Booth shinnied down the flag pole.
Huh! Wat? You don't say?

"Richards was a good school teacher, not an experienced Police Chief- He blew it, his people also blew it. Everyone LIED to cover each other. As time went bye - the lies, lied about the lies. My name is Stanton, I know exactly what happened - I planned it!"

GREAT RETORT, JOHN, THANK YOU!