Booth's Diary

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(01-13-2018 03:31 PM)SSlater Wrote:  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.

One such clue may be the very first entry in the "diary," which is generally completely overlooked or unexplained. Booth wrote: "Ti Amo." "Ti amo" is Italian for "I love you." Say what?? I think it likely that it was intended for Booth's financee, Lucy Hale. Lucy's father, Sen. John P. Hale, was not reappointed to the Senate by the New Hampshire legislature, and as of March 4, 1865, was out of a job. He asked his friend, President Lincoln, for a position and was appointed Minister (now called Ambassador) to Spain. Lucy planned to spend a year with her family in Spain, and then return to the US and marry Booth.

Headed for Spain, it is logical that Lucy endeavored to learn some Spanish, and she may have been helped by Booth or practiced with him. "Te amo" is Spanish for "I love you." Mistaking a verbal "te" for "ti"" seems to me to be a very simple error on Booth's part, and likely that it was a message intended for Lucy.

It is speculation (and my apologies to whomever, as I do not recall when or where I first came across it, or I would give you credit), but it does explain the unexplained, AND, if true, would only have been known "to the real Booth."