Mosby

[RJNorton]

(05-12-2013 06:47 PM)BettyO Wrote:  The Potter Papers i.e. Neff-Guttridge, are suspect. I saw some of the Potter papers years ago when Mr. James O. Hall had copies of them. He showed them to me and let me go over them as well. Mr. Hall pointed out that the verbiage was definitely, in a lot of places, 20th Century NOT Victorian. Words jumped out at one, i.e. in one sentence Powell was described as "dating" Mary Branson. The word "date" is more or less 20th Century. The correct 19th Century word would have been "courting." This in itself was very suspect....

I am curious about Andrew Potter as I know some highly respected assassination experts feel he never existed. Basically I know nothing about Potter or his papers. There is an example of a letter Potter allegedly wrote here.

My question is why would someone go to such an extensive effort to "create" things like this? Is there "big money" to be made through such an extensive endeavor? Or is it done more for the sensationalism or thrill of fooling others into thinking these are real documents?