The hole In the door
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11-13-2015, 03:11 PM
Post: #86
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RE: The hole In the door
Yeah, okay, so I see the arguments for the dry run. I see the possibility for most of what you're saying, whether or not I believe it actually happened. But the one hurdle that I struggle with the most is how Booth could have avoided being noticed by theater goers. I think it's common knowledge that there many people who went to the play specifically to see Lincoln. We've all read the accounts of people watching the box, trying to get a glimpse of him. And we've read the accounts some of those people gave of Booth making his way to and entering the box just before the assassination. I just have a hard time seeing how none of those people noticed Booth during a dry run. I have to believe that somebody would have said "The same guy was there an hour earlier too". With probably a fair number of people keeping a regular watch on the box, how could Booth have possibly entered unnoticed? Even if he was quick about it.
"The interment of John Booth was without trickery or stealth, but no barriers of evidence, no limits of reason ever halted the Great American Myth." - George S. Bryan, The Great American Myth |
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