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

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(01-22-2019 03:28 PM)Christine Wrote:  I would caution against using a newspaper article as "evidence" of fact regarding conspiracy theories. Newspapers during the Civil War years were blatantly partisan. Opinion pages did not exist since many of the "news" articles were opinion, usually with a Democratic or Republican slant. They are, of course, fascinating and can give us contemporary details, but I learned in my research to be very careful about using them to base my conclusions on without checking the political ideology of the paper and its editors and owners. Not too different from today.

Very good point, Christine, and especially in war times a reader and later researcher need to take that into account. Just as we do with some of the postings here...