My Journey on Lincoln's Assassination

[AussieMick]

For a person that is supposed to be cunning and evil (deceitful to Lincoln and Seward and many 'friends' in the US Cabinet), Stanton must have had enormous regard and loyalty towards Booth. We're asked to believe that Stanton went to all this trouble in order to switch some deluded person for Booth ( I wonder what persuasion was used to induce Boyd to impersonate Booth?). Not only that , we have to believe that Stanton was willing to risk all this Machiavellian impersonation by unreliable fruitcakes would never come to light.

If I had been Stanton and was indeed involved in the assassination, I would have made sure Booth was killed as soon as possible ... maybe in a barn by soldiers.