The Pope Did It?

[maharba]

At the end of your latest post, you stated: “You won't convince me, and I won't convince you”. Well without evidence you certainly won’t convince me. I will not speak for you but if you are saying that I am ideologically stuck in a single position and I cannot change, you are absolutely wrong. I am happy to believe that John Wilkes Booth was not a Roman Catholic and the Roman Catholic Church had nothing to do with the Lincoln assassination but I am only happy to do so if that is what the evidence shows.

That is my approach to history, genealogy and events uncertain. And I am very glad to get the benefit of your analysis regarding John Wilkes Booth. Whenever I see something that seems not to add up, and if experts constantly seem to evade the point, I begin to wonder why. I mention for instance that Boston Corbett who supposedly shot Booth (or the man in the tobacco barn) either shot another man or he lied about what happened. Corbett claimed many times that God had directed him, that his bullet tracked identically to the wound location of Abraham Lincoln. And the man in the barn did not at all have a bullet wound behind his ear, as did Lincoln. I also ask what did Boston Corbett supposedly use to shoot Booth/Boyd --was it a pistol, was it a rifle? The published experts do not seem to know or care about these striking contradictions. I wonder if they do not want to admit that at the very outset of the supposed 'capture of John Wilkes Booth', their official narrative is grossly contradictory. If JWBooth were a Hindu or a Catholic and the evidence continued in that line, it would all be the same to me. As you say, it is best approached from a point of view that is not idealogically wedded to any fixed position.