ptown_trojans_1;1060961 wrote:I will not and have not read this book, it has way too many errors. One of them is there was a meeting in the Oval Office, hello that wasn't created until the 20th century. It flies in the face of historical writings.
Are these the errors you are talking about? lol
“The narrative contains numerous errors of people, place, and events,” writes reviewer Edward Steers Jr.,
author of more than five books on the Lincoln assassination. He goes on to list about 10 errors of fact in “Killing Lincoln,” which O’Reilly co-authored with Martin Dugard and which has been atop bestseller lists for weeks.
A farm where John Wilkes Booth hid after the killing was not 500 acres, as O’Reilly says. It was 217 acres, according to the review.
O’Reilly refers to John Ford’s chief carpenter as John J. Clifford. In fact, according to the review, his name was Gifford.
“Lewis Powell, the man assigned to kill secretary of state William Seward, did not speak with ‘an Alabama drawl.’ He was from Florida,” the review notes
In one instance, the book claims Ford's Theatre was burned down in 1863 when it was actually destroyed in the end of 1862. The book contains multiple references to Lincoln in the Oval Office, which wasn't built until decades after his death. It also includes the line "He furls his brow"; furl is a nautical term, the correct word is furrows.
O'Reilly's response:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/political-bookworm/post/oreilly-says-errors-corrected-in-killing-lincoln/2011/11/15/gIQA66MpON_blog.html
Oliver Stone would be proud to have that few of mistakes.
