Almarin Cooley Richards

[John Fazio]

Laurie:

"Being a one-man show does not mean self-service if one is the only person around doing anything". That's the whole point: He WASN'T the only person around doing anything. There were at least eight others around who left accounts of what happened on or about the stage, in the passageway, at the back door and in the alley, after the shooting, and they ALL disagree with Stewart's account. More later.

I frankly don't care about comments that people have made to you about my book and my style, UNLESS AND UNTIL they support their criticism with facts, sources and reasoning. I have already had a taste of criticism of my book and my PowerPoint presentations, which criticism is, to me, not only acceptable, but heartily welcomed. Unfortunately, in some cases, when I ask for facts, sources and reasoning to support the same, I receive nothing but silence, thereby revealing the critic to be an infant, an amateur or a coward, or all three. Therefore, please do me the favor of telling those who have criticized my work to you to share their objections with me, but to please support the same with facts, sources and reasoning so that I can craft an intelligent response.

As to the issue:

Ritterspaugh said "...I opened the door (the rear door) and the man (Booth) had just got on his horse and was running down the alley...A tall stout man (Stewart) went out after me".

Richards said: "The gyrations Stewart describes as having participated in could not have taken place as there was no horse and rider than there and in sight".

James P. Ferguson said: "I saw the gentleman who first got upon the stage after Booth got off (Stewart)...I suppose it was probably two or three minutes --about that long--after Booth went off the stage that this man went out of the entrance."

Debonay said: "I think he (Booth) had time to get out of the back door before any person was on the stage".

Smith said: "...my impression is that Booth was off the stage before Mr. Stewart got on it".

Anderson said: "He (Booth) came out of the theater so quick that it seemed as if he but touched the horse, and it was gone like a flash of lightning".

Burroughs said: "Booth came out...He struck me...and knocked me down. He did this as he was mounting his horse...and rode off immediately". He also said, to Richards, that Booth just galloped away after having some difficulty in mounting.

Hawk said: " Colonel Seward (sic)...jumped to the stage and grabbed me. 'Where is that man,' he demanded. 'What man,' I asked. 'The man that shot the President!' 'My God' was all I could exclaim".

In none of the foregoing accounts is anything said about Stewart doing a pas de trois with Booth and his bay mare in the alley, yet Stewart claims he did. Stewart lied. Either he lied or the other seven witnesses, with an assist from Hawk, lied. Which is the more reasonable conclusion? Therefore, it was this, and only this, that I said was conclusive. I did not say, nor do I believe, that everything about the assassination is conclusive. Only a fool would say something that stupid.

John

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(07-30-2016 06:40 AM)Gene C Wrote:  

(07-29-2016 11:33 AM)John Fazio Wrote:  Incidentally, if inconsistencies and errors always condemned an historical account, we should have to throw out all the evidence of the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth, because the Gospels are full of them.

John

John, I will politely and strongly disagree with you.
Since this forum is not the place for a discussion of this type, perhaps you can private message me and we can discuss this misunderstanding of the scriptures.

Gene:

Please send me your email address so that I can address the inquiry you left with the Ohio Humanities Council. Mine is: jcf@neohio.twcbc.com

John