She wanted to scream. The court of public opinion! The court of history!
The official Lincoln died by an assassin’s bullet in 1865. But who was the man in the White House those four years? Ellie’s father had spent a decade chasing that question. It destroyed him. He died in a state hospital, mumbling about doppelgängers and government plots. when does lincoln get exonerated
: 5/5 stars
Ellie was twenty-seven now, a graduate student in history at a small college that tolerated her obsession only because she kept her grades up. She had spent fifteen years gathering evidence: handwriting analyses that didn’t match, photographs with subtle differences in ear shape and mole placement, diary entries from soldiers and politicians who whispered that something was off about the president after 1861. She wanted to scream
The official story: Abraham Lincoln had never been accused of anything. He was the Great Emancipator, the martyr president, the man whose face was carved into a mountain. Exoneration? For what? The official Lincoln died by an assassin’s bullet in 1865
The brothers secure a USB drive containing a recorded conversation between Steadman and his sister, President Caroline Reynolds, proving the murder was staged. Michael attempts to use this tape to into granting full presidential pardons to both himself and Lincoln. Under immense pressure from The Company, Reynolds avoids compliance by abruptly resigning from the presidency, rendering the tape useless as leverage. 3. The Unlikely Savior: Paul Kellerman