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I suspect this subject will be covered in greater detail in the upcoming book, Lincoln's Ghost: Houdini's War on Spiritualism and the Dark Conspiracy Against the American Presidency by Brad Ricca. You can pre-order that book now on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. Release date is October 28.
Should be an interesting read. I'll have to check, but there was supposed to be seances (either in or out of The White House) desired by Mary Lincoln and she and at times, her husband attended them.
ReplyDeleteAttending seances doesn't make a person a "believer" anymore than attending any religious/alternative practice makes one a believer.
If he did, Lincoln may have sat with mediums at the request of Mary and/or he did so to check it out and protect his then very vunerable/troubled wife.