Escape speculations

[Jim Page]

(06-13-2015 12:44 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  This is a fascinating theory, but don't you think Weichmann would have been aware (or at least suspicious) if "powerful folks, perhaps aligned with the Copperheads, were directing her?" Living in the boardinghouse wouldn't he have seen something if she were being directed as such?

Hey, Roger--

That's a valid question, with more than one plausible answer.

Weichmann strikes me as the Kato Kaelin of the Lincoln assassination in some respects. He might have been on the spot but he somehow failed to connect the dots.

It's been too long since I read his book, but I recall Mrs. Surratt asking pickets about their duty hours, asking Weichmann to bless her secret intentions, John Surratt coming and going, whispering groups meeting behind closed doors at the boarding house and in other places while Weichmann stared at his feet, I guess.

Whatever his good qualities were, he was in my view a Dr. Watson-type who saw the same things others might see and never quite got what he was seeing.

Again, these are just my opinions and worth just what you paid for them: Nothing!

Best regards--

--Jim