Bill OReilly loves history, but just the parts in which someone is assassinated in a hopefully-graphic, tragic way (or, if none is available, OReilly is comfortable to settle for developing a conspiracy theory in which someone of immense historical significance dies a grisly, tragic death, because all that other history shit is, cmon, boooooooooooorrrrriiing*). But his very favorite kind of history is the kind he makes up entirely, because, cmon, REAL history is boooooooooooorrrriiiiiiiiiiing. ‘Killing Lincoln’ also resurrects an old canard debunked long ago by serious historians: that Secretary of War Edwin Stanton was involved in the plot to kill Lincoln, in the hope that he might ascend to the presidency. There is no credible evidence to support such an assertion, nor do O’Reilly and Dugard provide any. (In fact, ‘Killing Lincoln’ offers no direct citations for any of its assertions. In a three-page summary under the heading ‘Notes,’ the authors assure readers that they have consulted “hundreds” of sources; they list the secondary sources they have #AssassinsWeek *see Killing Patton
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 02:59:26 +0000