After 150 years of mystery and confusion, another layer of the Lincoln assassination has finally been peeled.
New York City, NY (PRWEB) March 20, 2015
Why was President Abraham Lincoln left unguarded when the War Department knew there were serious plots against him?
Why was John Wilkes Booth killed when he was discovered locked inside a tobacco barn and surrounded by 25 soldiers?
Why were two innocents swiftly hanged by a military tribunal and not allowed to testify in their own defense?
In 1988 Steven Hager wrote an explosive cover story for High Times magazine detailing CIA involvement in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It became a best-selling issue and the article went viral during the early days of the Internet. Judge Jim Garrison, the only prosecutor to investigate the case, cited it as "the best article written on the assassination."
In February 2014, Hager watched The Conspirator, a film about Mary Surratt's trial. Realizing the 150th anniversary was upon us, he began researching the murder full-time for 11 months before writing Killing Lincoln: The Real Story.
The book documents dozens of incriminating threads of evidence that have been swept out-of-view, especially the original confession of George Atzerodt, as well as the John Wilkes Booth diary fragments. He pays special attention to the suspicious behavior of some of the major power brokers in Washington DC, and the investigation extends into New York City, a major piece of the puzzle that has been historically ignored likely because it leads into the heart of Wall Street war profiteering.
Most Americans are not aware Congress held an investigation after it was revealed the original military tribunal that hanged four people had been packed with paid perjuries. There was only one Democrat on the Judiciary Committee placed in charge of the investigation. But rather than rubber stamp a bogus committee whitewash, Representative Andrew Rogers subjected the witnesses to serious cross examination and they wilted. A physician named Dr. Merritt admitted receiving the biggest bribe ($6,000) for his testimony. Only a handful of scholars have shown any interest in this Congressional investigation, which sheds so much light on the plot, and the Lincoln assassination is clouded by faithful allegiance to the official story.
“The cool turpitude of the whole crew sickened me with shame,” wrote Rogers in his dissenting statement, “and made me sorrow over the fact that such people could claim the name American.”
Digital review copies of the book are available to qualified media representatives upon request.
