Goodbye, Crook

[Rhatkinson]

I had never seen a photo of William Crook, and thought I would share this one from Seale's White House book that I'm reading. I know there is some debate about Crook's recollection of his last conversation with Lincoln.

Heath
   

[L Verge]

The first time I saw that photo, I thought that those eyes alone would scare the beejeebies our of me!

[LincolnMan]

He does look rather intense. I've heard that his recollection of the Lincoln "goodbye" comment may have never been said.

[RJNorton]

True, Bill. In Ed Steers' assassination encyclopedia the author writes, "Historian William Hanchett has shown that these (i.e. Crook's) recollections and other reminisces Crook writes about fall into the myth category, related at a time late in Crook's life when there was no one left alive to refute them.....Because of this Crook cannot be considered a trustworthy source on the events surrounding Lincoln's assassination."

[Eva Elisabeth]

Heath, here's another picture of him:
   

[RJNorton]

Many thanks to Jim Garrett for sending a photo of the Crook gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery. In his message Jim mentioned that he and Rich Smyth are busily working on volume 2 of "Where Are They Now."

[LincolnMan]

It looks like his tombstone is on the border of where the veterans are buried- or is he buried among them? I kind of thought there would be something on the grave to indicate his relationship to Lincoln.

[Jim Garrett]

Col. William Crook is in section 15. He has one of the few individual style headstones in that section.