Surratt Family in Maryland

[historybuff22]

CSPAN3 is aring a program "Surratt Family in Maryland" this Sunday at 9 PM and Midnight Eastern time. Laurie, are you in it?

Rick Brown
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[L Verge]

Not that I'm aware of. I wonder who is doing it? When I don't know something about shows on the Surratts, I get very nervous because we (staff and volunteers) have to deal with any fall-out that might be caused. I have no qualms about good historians talking on "our" family; it's the not-so-good ones that scare me...

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(12-14-2013 06:54 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Not that I'm aware of. I wonder who is doing it? When I don't know something about shows on the Surratts, I get very nervous because we (staff and volunteers) have to deal with any fall-out that might be caused. I have no qualms about good historians talking on "our" family; it's the not-so-good ones that scare me...

I did some checking and answered my own question. The program is David O. Stewart, the author of the recently published piece of fiction entitled The Lincoln Deception. I have not read the book, but just broke down and spent my hard-earned money on a copy from Amazon so that I can see what we might have to refute.

The only thing that I have heard about the book (I think it is this one) is that he includes the little-known (and not yet proven) story that Special Judge Advocate Bingham interviewed Mary Surratt during her incarceration and was told something that was too volatile to disclose. If Mr. Stewart has found proof that this happened, I will take back all of my skepticism.

[LincolnMan]

A Surratt special without Laurie? Sacrilege!

[RJNorton]

(12-14-2013 06:54 PM)L Verge Wrote:  The only thing that I have heard about the book (I think it is this one) is that he includes the little-known (and not yet proven) story that Special Judge Advocate Bingham interviewed Mary Surratt during her incarceration and was told something that was too volatile to disclose. If Mr. Stewart has found proof that this happened, I will take back all of my skepticism.

I have not read it either, and I don't know what the secret is that Mary allegedly told Bingham. But I listened to part of Mr. Stewart's talk, and although he didn't give away "the secret," he did say his novel goes off in a different direction (in other words, not theories like Stanton was behind everything, the Jesuits of Rome were behind it all, the Confederates carried it out, Andrew Johnson was behind it, etc.).