Something to thhink about.

[John Fazio]

(07-03-2016 10:42 PM)SSlater Wrote:  Here's what I learned this week.
1. A man admits that he took a message to Booth, ordering him not to kill Lincoln.
2. Atzerodt tells us that Booth told him that there is another plan to get the President sure, and Booth is not part of that plan. Booth's plan is terminated.
3. Another man leaves Richmond, for the express purpose of "Blowing up the White House."
4 But this man gets captured, he is jailed, his plan is dead.
5.Booth is aware of that capture and formulates a NEW PLAN. There is no mention of the plan until Friday, when Booth shoots Lincoln.
6 Is Mary Surratt guilty of murder?

Slater:

A few questions:

1. What is the source or sources of your information?
2. Who was the man? To whom did he acknowledge that he took the message to Booth? Why did he acknowledge it? Whom did he represent? From whom did he receive the order?
3. When did he take the message to Booth? Was the message written or oral, if you know? Where was Booth at the time he received the message?
4. If there was such an order delivered to Booth, it means there was a prior order to Booth to kill Lincoln, which this order then countermanded, does it not?
5. Was Booth's plan "terminated" or merely put on hold, to be reactivated in the event of a stated contingency?
6. Upon capture of the other man, why would Booth formulate a new plan? Why would he not simply reactivate the old plan, i.e. the plan previously put on hold but not terminated? And if he reactivated the old plan, is it not true that he is still operating pursuant to someone else's order, i.e. the order that was in effect prior to its being countermanded? This, incidentally, is consistent with the evidence that Booth communicated with Surratt in Montreal on the first day of the week (the 10th) advising him to return to Washington forthwith because their plans had changed.
7. When you say there was no mention of the plan until Friday, who would have mentioned it if it had been mentioned? To whom would it have been mentioned if it had been mentioned? At what time of the day was in mentioned on Friday? Or was it mentioned to different people at different times?
8. You have not previously mentioned her, but, yes, if she were part of Booth's conspiracy and someone died, unlawfully, incident to it. I know of a case in which a group of men robbed a bank. One of the men remained in the getaway car and was not with the others who were in the bank robbing it. The police arrived and there was an exchange of gunfire with the robbers in the bank only. One of the policemen's bullets accidentally hit and killed an innocent bystander. The man sitting in the getaway car, who was never in the bank and who did not participate in the gunplay, was convicted of first degree murder.

Thank you for your answers to these questions. Upon receipt of the same, I will follow up.

John