Herold and Surratt

[SSlater]

John F. I have been reading your stuff on Google for years, so I appreciate your dialog on Surratt's whereabouts, but I differ from you on the "8 DAYS". Mar18 to 25. On Mar 19, Watson wrote to Surratt in D.C., thus he believed Surratt to be in D.C., clearly, he was not in New York. We don't know if Surratt replied to him, via telegraph - as requested, and told him that Booth was in NY and would attend to the work needing to be done. (Escort Sarah? - that I believe.) Booth and Surratt were both in D.C. on the 25th, but there is no record of them meeting face-to-face. (Booth went to his hotel, and Surratt picked up Sarah, but where???) From that point on they were inseparable well into April. I can't believe that Surratt would have gone to NY in that time period. So, Booth might have seen Surratt on Mar. 19 and maybe Mar25, but that's all. That wouldn't have been enough time to develop a New Plot. The continuance of the original "team" is extremely "Iffy". I will grant you the thought that - there is the possibility that Surratt part may have been to report the new "Assassination Plan" to the authorities in Canada for their approval, but he did not have an active part in the plan, because he had other duties for the Confederacy, (with Sarah and/or Elmira) and could not make it back to D.C. on time. Question: Was the date of the Assassination a set date, or could it have been "when possible"? and it came sooner that expected, so Surratt wasn't available. Watcha' Think?