Booth's Diary

[SSlater]

(01-13-2018 03:31 PM)SSlater Wrote:  Does the Diary Still exist? Can we read all that is left? Are copies available?

If we can find something written in Booth's Diary, that could have been known only to the real Booth, it would prove - for once and for all - that the body on the Garrett Farm porch was JOHN WILKES BOOTH, and all other claims that say he lived on in Texas or Oklahoma, or wherever ! Are wrong.

I have pondered this at many times and have arrived at some weird answers. For example. Maybe Booth tore the page out. Those pages may have bee a "record" of some memorable "Hotel Pass-time", that he had to hide from a later partner. Or maybe her father read it. For example, the Senator whose daughter that was engaged to Booth.

Laurie, Are there copies- of what is left of the Diary,- in the Surratt collection?

Thanks RJ for the copy. If I have seen it before, I can't remember it.
I am guessing that Booth kept the Diary, to PROVE that he is the one who shot Lincoln. (Maybe he was going to write a book and wanted details). Well he got details and the guy on the Garrett Farm porch, resting on the folded mattress, is the guilty party, there can be no other. Thus the dummy, or any other claimant is disqualified.