Extra Credit Questions

[Laurie Verge]

There are two gift shops at Ford's Theatre - one run by the Park Service, and the other run by the Ford's Theatre Society (the arts branch that technically takes over the theatre after 5 pm each night for live performances). When O'Reilly's book came out, the National Park Service refused to sell it, but the Theatre Society's gift shop said that they would sell it.

This is my personal opinion only, but frankly there are worse books out there on the Lincoln assassination that are being sold in a variety of NPS sites and others without any qualms whatsoever. Again, my personal opinion strictly, but the mid-1900s work by Otto Eisenschiml (which is still available) and the 1970s debacle titled The Lincoln Conspiracy, and the recent works by Ray Neff have done more to damage the story than O'Reilly's book -- and that's saying something, because I'm not a fan of Killing Lincoln (although I did enjoy his first two chapters).

If someone other than the inflammable Bill O'Reilly had been credited as writing the book (say, his co-author who likely did 98% of the writing), I wonder if there would have been so much flap over the errors???