Many times in history, we often find instances of small isolated events that combine to become a tipping point with consequences nobody could foresee and become a force impossible to forestall. While investigating the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton recognized the massive destructive power of an innocent political favor and realized that it had to remain secret. To Stanton the revelation of this secret represented, 'A Threat to the Republic'.
The maintaining of this secret proved to be toxic to the body-politic and led directly to the execution of the four consprators who knew of it and the first impeachment of a United States President
This is a new cold-case look at the Lincoln Assassination through the eyes of the chief investigator and the classified information he was forced to keep confidential to prevent the then fragile nation from disintegrating after the Civil War.
