Michael Francis D'Amico was born in Youngstown, OH in 1934. Married in 1960, he joined the Washington DC Fire Department the following year. Michael retired as an officer from the Fire Fighting Division in 1980. He and his family live in Fort Collins, CO.
A fascination with Abraham Lincoln led to a fourteen-year search through Washington DC used bookstores and the Library of Congress to find first-hand sources about Lincoln's assassination. Over 60 sources were cited in the writing of The True History of Lincoln's Assassination.