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Thomas Lowry Admits Falsifying Document, Then Recants

January 26th, 2011 · 15 Comments

The saga of historian Thomas Lowry, who had admitted falsifying a pardon signed by Abraham Lincoln earlier this week, got a bit murkier today when he denied doing it. In a phone interview Tuesday, Lowry recanted his confession and said he offered repeated denials to Archives investigators over the course of a two-hour interview but […]

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