Thomas F. Harney

[Thomas Thorne]

I think JWB and company would have found greater respect in both North and South if they had done the conventional thing and joined the Confederate Army and killed Yankees in a straight forward way on the battlefield.

Even the duel while illegal still had much acceptance in the South as a stylized form of warfare involving 2 armed men facing each other.

As Lincoln was shot in the back of the head and Seward was an invalid, the conspirators displayed none of the martial qualities so conspicuously displayed by so many Americans during the Civil war.

I recall John Surratt attempted without success to join a Confederate veterans organization.

Per Wild Bill's remarks,I believe that you should receive the Medal of Honor just for seeing the entire movie version of "They Came to Cordura." Even though Rita Hayworth is the leading lady and Gary Cooper's character has the striking name of Maj. Thomas Thorn, I have never survived the first 15 minutes of interminable talking.

Perhaps John Wilkes Booth should have been an extreme movie critic.
Tom