Rick Stelnick

Rick Stelnick is a former executive officer* with links and ties to Washington, D.C., New York City, Moscow, London, and Istanbul. He is an alumnus of Brooklyn Technical High School and the City University of New York.  He has been a member of the Friends of the Smithsonian, Society of Civil War Historians, and the Surratt Society. Rick also belongs to one of the largest minority groups in the United States: people with disabilities. His previous works are The Confederate Veteran: A New Southern Man? (1974) and Skill Sets Of U.S. Grant  (1999). Rick is currently working as co-author with fellow crime historian William L. Richter on writing Deo Vindice: The Trial of John Wilkes Booth, in observation of the Civil War Sesquicentennial and the 150th Anniversary of the 1865 assassination of Lincoln by Booth.

*Executive Agents and Officers are experts and specialists in academics and industry who are sent abroad and serve overseas collecting information on behalf of and gathering intelligence to the benefit of United States special interest groups.