Unwanted Facts: Facts that Most Books on the Lincoln Assassination Ignore

[AussieMick]

Mike,

I've addressed, in my own way, as many of the questions that I can bear to ...

* The military commission that tried and convicted eight alleged Booth conspirators relied heavily on fabricated evidence and false testimony, much of it coerced.

relied heavily ? thats your opinion? also 'fabricated evidence and false testimony' that's your opinion?

(the examples you gave , letter found in water, and Mudd's letter in fireplace, Mrs Hudspeth .... were these relied on heavily as evidence? ... many fireplaces do not actually have fires ... its quite possible in late April that a fire was not lit).


* One of the military commission’s chief witnesses was later proven to be an imposter and was convicted of perjury.


Name? Are you saying his evidence at the commission was worthless ?


* The military commission suppressed all evidence that indicated that Booth did not seriously contemplate murdering Lincoln until the day of the assassination.
What evidence? Who knows what he was contemplating and when?


* According to a 1977 FBI analysis, 86 pages were removed from Booth’s diary after the War Department took possession of it.

If you're going to be considered worthwhile you need to give links to these type of documents. How do they know 86 ( or 87 or 23 or 12 or ....) pages were removed?

* In the part of Booth’s diary that survived, Booth, among other things, denied being behind the attack on Secretary of State William Seward.


Oh, well ... if Booth says that he was not behind the attack then that's an end to the matter !!!


(Nothing about Col. Clarence Cobb?)