Did Abraham Lincoln commit perjury and falsify evidence to save his best friend's son from hanging? Rumors have been swirling around since the end of the Duff Armstrong murder trial. An abolitionist reporter and a slave holding reporter from an unlikely alliance to sniff out the truth while they cover the Lincoln- Douglas debates. The issues Lincoln and Douglas debate will soon explode into the bloodiest war in American history: the Civil War
Did Abraham Lincoln commit perjury and falsify evidence to save his best friend's son from hanging? Rumors have been swirling around since the end of ...
No one doubted Abraham Lincoln's honesty. No one doubted his loyalty to his friends. But what happened when his two core values collided? Rumors swirl that to save the son of his oldest friend from hanging Lincoln falsified evidence and suborned perjury. The contest for a senate seat from Illinois electrifies the nation and illuminates smoldering conflicts that will soon explode into the Civil War, the bloodiest war in American history. Two reporters, one a slaveholder and the other an abolitionist, cover the Lincoln-Douglas debates. These two very different men come across allegations of...
No one doubted Abraham Lincoln's honesty. No one doubted his loyalty to his friends. But what happened when his two core values collided? Rumors swirl...
