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

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(12-01-2018 07:04 PM)Gene C Wrote:  

(12-01-2018 04:21 PM)mikegriffith1 Wrote:  I'm sorry, but you simply do not know what you are talking about. The FBI lab experts found massive evidence of tampering. I have to wonder how on earth you could claim otherwise. It seems obvious that you have only read only read one side of the story and appear unwilling to read the other side.

If you can't bring yourself to read Thomas's detailed chapter on the FBI lab report, go read the FBI lab report itself, which starts on page 24 of the PDF copy at archive.org, and pay special attention to the section titled "Result of examination," which starts on page 25:

https://ia800306.us.archive.org/30/items...booth4.pdf

Mike, thank you for posting the link to the FBI report on Booth's diary. I've read the pages you mention. They mention the missing pages torn out of the book are not in sequence.
NOWHERE IN THE FBI REPORT ON THE PAGES YOU MENTIONED DOES IT MENTION WHO OR WHEN THE PAGES WERE REMOVED.

On the bottom of the 27th page of the report
"As a result of the complete examination of the diary, no invisible writings, no unusual obliterations or alterations or any characteristics of question were found."

If you consider the missing pages as tampering, no one disagrees with that. But to attempt to say who or when the pages were removed and why, is pure speculation and the FBI report is silent regarding that.

Thank you, Gene, in pointing this minor little detail out. Mr. Griffith is trying to insert the words "War Department" in order to get the un-initiated to believe his conspiracy theories. He's counting on the fact that many folks will not read and analyze things -- just like some tend to ignore footnotes and endnotes (where some great information can be found).

Caveat Emptor, everyone, our "correspondent" is now attempting to muddy the waters even more by "introducing" Joseph Lynch into the picture. I would bet that he does not know that the main link in this story - the man who dealt directly with Mr. Lynch - is a member of this forum. Richard Sloan, where are you? You are a linchpin in what a few of us lived -- not just read about ala our "correspondent" here.

I recommended Ed Steers's book on Lincoln Hoaxes yesterday and do so again. All this, including the Lynch scam, is covered there in detail.

As for Reconstruction plans, am I not correct that much of what Lincoln talked about doing was laid out near the end of 1863, with nearly two long years of war left to go? I always felt that Lincoln's pronouncements at that time was him wishfully riding the good waves created with the Emancipation Proclamation.

The early test case was the "reconstruction" of Louisiana, and as I remember, that didn't go as well as planned. The continuing hatred between the two governments was made worse (at least in the Confederacy) by Sherman, Sheridan, and others. Could Lincoln have pulled off his conciliatory policies after 1863? Even acknowledging that he was a master politician/manipulator, I think he would have had to develop different strategies than the ones that Mr. Griffith quotes.