Drawing of Booth Body

[Gene C]

(11-09-2018 07:40 AM)Gene C Wrote:  Am quite busy this weekend, but will try to read the chapters in Dark Union you mentioned and respond to your comment.

It is a bit overcast outside, and I fell asleep after reading 4 pages of the 4 chapters I am trying to read. Before nodding off, in these four pages, Ray Neff tells us on page 159, ..."his (David Herold) companion in and out of Washington the day Lincoln was shot happened to be a neighboring blacksmith's son named Johnny Booth"
and Sunday morning following the assassination, "Without fanfare the National Detective Police brought Herold into Washington, drunk and manacled.....Herold was photographed at NPD headquarters and hustled back out of town into the Maryland countryside"

On page 160 we find Confederate secret agent James W Boyd is called out and joins the little group consisting of David Herold and NDP. Early on Wednesday morning, when the detectives appear to be asleep, Boyd "collected one of the detectives carbines and three pistols, then stole away, with David Herold at his side"
Ray Neff's source for Boyd joining the group and his and David's escape is not documented.
More to come...
Have read chapters 19-22. It is mainly a large amount of unlikely coincidences, wound together to make a highly speculative story.
I need to read through this again to be able to share specific examples. There are so many of them.