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

[Rob Wick]

So, I'm Edwin Stanton. Two of my minions have just returned from the field with a diary purported to contain damning evidence of the perfidy committed by myself and other Republicans in the greatest crime of the century. Instead of taking the diary, throwing it into the fireplace, and forever keeping the world from ever knowing of it, I concoct a detailed editing of a book that only three or four people have direct knowledge of? I know I can count on Lafayette Baker and Everton Conger to remain quiet because they work for me. One has the worst reputation in the city and the other is a nobody who would have died in obscurity had he not become part of the search. Should either one try to blackmail me I have the overwhelming power of the government behind me to ensure that my secret is kept.

For three years I conspire to keep the edited book under wraps because even the parts I decided to leave in could still be trouble for me. When its existence is made known, I testify to the fact that I saw it at the same time as the two men who previously testified to that same fact. During those three years I do nothing to destroy the diary completely.

Yeah, that makes a whole lot of sense.

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Rob