Hoax: Hitler’s Diaries, Lincoln’s Assassins, and Other Famous Frauds

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Notes 1. oath of a Freeman 1. Linda Sillitoe and Allen Roberts, Salamander (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 1988), 87. 2. Robert Lindsey, A Gathering of Saints: A True Story of Money, Murder, and Deceit (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988), 66. 3. Ibid., 65–68. 4. Hugh Nibley, quoted in ibid., 69. 5. Sillitoe and Roberts, Salamander, 251. 6. Ibid., 289–291. 7. Ibid., 292. 8. Simon Worrall, The Poet and the Murderer (New York: Plume Group, 2002), 4. 9. Ibid., 249. 10. Edward Steers Jr., “A Puttin’ on (H)airs,” Lincoln Herald 91, no. 3 (fall 1989): 86–90. 11. Worrall, The Poet and the Murderer, 45–46. 12. Todd Axelrod, The Handbook of Historical Documents (Neptune, N.J.: TFH Publications, 1992). 13. Worrall, The Poet and the Murderer, 48. 14. Justin G. Schiller, “In the Beginning . . . A Chronology of the ‘Oath of a Freeman’ Document as Offered by Schiller-Wapner,” in The Judgement of Experts, ed. James Gilreath, 9 (Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1991). 15. Ibid, 11. 16. “Preliminary Report on the Examination and Analysis of the ‘Oath of a Freeman,’” in Gilreath, ed., The Judgment of Experts, 22. 17. James Gilreath, “Schiller-Wapner Galleries Offers the ‘Oath’ to the Library of Congress,” in Gilreath, ed., The Judgment of Experts, 58. 18. Marcus A. McCorison, “Found at Last? The ‘Oath of a Freeman,’ the End of Innocence, and the American Antiquarian Society,” in Gilreath, ed., The Judgment of Experts, 69. 19. Excerpts from the interviews appear in Gilreath, ed., The Judgment of Experts. 214 Notes to Pages 39–55 20. Roderick McNeil, “Scanning Auger Microscopy for Dating Two Copies of the ‘Oath of a Freeman,’” in Gilreath, ed., The Judgment of Experts, 119. 21. Ibid. 22. Ibid., 116. 23. www.mormoninformation.com/hofmann.htm (accessed 2011). 2. Pearl Harbor 1. Gordon W. Prange, At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981), 539–540. 2. Walter Davenport, “Impregnable Pearl Harbor,” Collier’s, June 14, 1941, 11. 3. Quoted in George Victor, The Pearl Harbor Myth: Rethinking the Unthinkable (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2007), 171. 4. When war did break out, the navy estimated it needed seventy thousand new officers to fight a Pacific war. It was able to accomplish this incredible increase in its officer corps through an ingenious program dubbed V-12. 5. Victor, The Pearl Harbor Myth, 189. 6. “United States House of Representatives elections,” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections, 1942 (accessed 2011). 7. Quoted in Prange, At Dawn We Slept, 584. 8. Prange, At Dawn We Slept, 587. 9. Ibid., 587. 10. Ibid., 588. 11. Ibid., 589. 12. Ibid., 594. 13. Roberts Commission, “Attack upon Pearl Harbor by Japanese Armed Forces : Report of the Commission Appointed by the President of the United States to Investigate and Report the Facts Relating to the Attack Made by the Japanese Armed Forces upon Pearl Harbor in the Territory of Hawaii on December 7, 1941,” 77th Congress, 2nd sess., U.S. Senate, Document No. 159 (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1942), 1 (cited hereafter as Roberts Commission report). Prange, At Dawn We Slept, 595–599. 14. Roberts Commission, “Attack upon Pearl Harbor,” 1. 15. Ibid., 20. 16. On May 25, 1999, the U.S. Senate attempted to set the record straight, passing a resolution exonerating Kimmel and Short by a 52 to 47 vote. The resolution stated that the success of the Japanese attacks was “not a result of dereliction of duty” by Short or Kimmel. 17. Former secretary of the navy Frank Knox died of a heart attack on April 28, 1944. Roosevelt appointed James V. Forrestal as his replacement on May 19, 1944. 18. Prange, At Dawn We Slept, 81. 19. Ibid., 681. 20. Quoted in ibid., 675–676. Notes to Pages 57–67 215 21. Ibid., 682. 22. Quoted in Victor, The Pearl Harbor Myth, vii. 23. Victor, The Pearl Harbor Myth, 302. 24. Lieutenant Commander Kenneth Landis, USNR (ret.), and Staff Sergeant Rex Gunn USAR (ret.), Deceit at Pearl Harbor (N.p.: 1st Books Library, 2001). 25. Francis L. Loewenheim, Harold D. Langley, and Manfred Jonas, eds., Roosevelt and Churchill: Their Secret Wartime Correspondence (New York: Dutton, 1975). 26. The Gestapo is mistakenly believed by most people to have been headed by the infamous Heinrich Himmler. Himmler was head of the entire Reich security agency, of which the Gestapo was only one section. 27...