Watch John O’Brien Discuss Controversies of Lincoln Assassination
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By: Kelsey S. Johnston
April 14, 2025
Baltimore, Maryland
To mark today's 160th anniversary of the Lincoln assassination, past LGDC president John O'Brien recently discussed the leading assassination conspiracy theories, their origins, and why they won’t die.
Over time, mysterious documents and newly discovered “witnesses” have been presented to assert that investigators got the assassination wrong or even managed to hide the truth. Books like Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Lincoln have popularized particular conspiracies, bringing them to new audiences.
Is there any truth to these theories? Why do they persist? Watch John discuss that and more in his presentation and conversation with his fellow Lincoln Group members:
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