Missing pages from Booth's diary?

[historybuff22]

I see in the listings for tonight (3/25/2014) that the National Geographic channel is arring an episode of Diggers that is about the search for the 18 missing pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary.

A couple of problems here:

1) Diggers is about two guys that use metal detectors to search for items at historical sites. Since when would a metal detector be able to find buried pages of a diary?

2) Didn't the FBI determine in the 1970s that there was something like 56 actual pages missing from Booth's diary?

Curious to see how this turns out. I just hope its not just another one of those hyped TV shows that turns nothing up.

Rick Brown
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