TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

In the wake of the recent shootings in Arizona, Wired magazine looks at at a Secret Service study on the motivations of assassins. Although they vary, politics plays a surprisingly small role. Contrary to popular assumptions about public killings, the attackers didn’t conform to any particular demographic profile. But when Fein reconstructed their patterns of […]

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Civil War Talk Radio Air Date: 021508 Subject: Lincoln Before & After the War Books:Lincoln-Douglas Debates and the Making of a President, We Saw Lincoln Shot: One Hundred Eyewitness Accounts Guest: Timothy S. Good Civil War Talk Radio airs most Fridays at 12 PM Pacific on World Talk Radio Studio A. Host Gerry Prokopowicz, the […]

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At 3 p.m. Eastern time on Oct. 15, the National Geographic Channel will re-air “The Hunt For Lincoln’s Assassin”. This little flick means a lot to me, since I was fortunate enough to appear on camera. The documentary, which originally aired in April of this year, spotlights Everton Conger, the man whose biography I have […]

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