Unwanted Facts: Facts that Most Books on the Lincoln Assassination Ignore

[mikegriffith1]

(12-06-2018 06:01 PM)Gene C Wrote:  [quote='mikegriffith1' pid='74229' dateline='1544129526']
In reading through the gift shop’s list of books for sale, one sees an extreme bias in favor of the military commission’s story. Out of the 40-plus Lincoln assassination books on the list, only two challenge the military commission’s version.

In fact, even after all we have long known about the bogus nature of much of the military commission’s evidence, especially its Confederate conspiracy theory, some of the books offered at the gift shop double-down on that theory, and one of them even goes to the ludicrous extreme of suggesting that General George McClellan might have been involved in an assassination plot against Lincoln!

You would think that since the Surratt House Museum receives taxpayer money, its staff would ensure that the gift shop offered a more balanced selection of books. You would also think that the staff would feel some moral obligation, or at least some sense of basic fairness, to carry a few more books that defend Mary Surratt, especially since they are getting paid to run her house as a museum.

(12-06-2018 06:01 PM)Gene C Wrote:  Your comments about what books the Surratt House sells and doesn't sell has only served to raise my respect for the staff there.

Then you're showing respect for bias that is so extreme that it excludes books that are written by recognized scholars and that are published by established publishing houses.

(12-06-2018 06:01 PM)Gene C Wrote:  Mike, you have made some interesting posts full of different information, but I haven't seen to many people responding favorably to your comments and jumping on your bandwagon.

That is not a bit surprising. You have people in this forum who still believe that Spangler was guilty, who still peddle the Confederate conspiracy theory, and who still view the military commission as a credible and honorable tribunal.