So what should librarians do if they have Lowry's book on their shelves?  I
wouldn't want to say it should be pulled from the collection, but I also
want to note that one of the primary sources for the book was falsified and
damaged by the author to support this work...

Christopher P. Ferry, CRM


On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 2:09 PM, PeterK <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> National Archives Discovers Date Change on Lincoln Record
> "Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero announced today that
> Thomas Lowry, a long-time Lincoln researcher from Woodbridge, VA,
> confessed on January 12, 2011, to altering an Abraham Lincoln
> Presidential pardon that is part of the permanent records of the U.S.
> National Archives. The pardon was for Patrick Murphy, a Civil War
> soldier in the Union Army who was court-martialed for desertion."
>
> http://bit.ly/e6mHXh
>
> Source: http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2011/nr11-57.html
>
>
> now what I find interesting is that it has taken 13 years to find out
> about this.
>
>
> Peterk
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