Identification of Booth's body

[davg2000]

I don’t know exactly how many times Mike Griffith has posted about Lincoln’s assassination. There are many posts, though, beginning some time back. I’ve tried to remain current with his posts and the responses to what he’s said. I am struck by this: I can’t recall reading any response which agrees with him. (Maybe I missed one?)

The point is that, after all of this time and his effort, he has failed to convince careful, qualified readers here. That’s his problem. No one that I’ve read agrees with him. It’s not personal—just no one thinks he’s right. And it is not the job of those who disagree with him to convince him.

Some time ago a woman who sincerely believed that she had the only photograph of Abraham and Mary Lincoln posing together became sarcastic and insulting when she, too, couldn’t convince anyone here. (Readers had pointed out good reasons why the daguerreotype wasn’t the Lincolns.) She eventually disappeared. Although I will grant that Mike is a more articulate writer than Pamela, and is less sarcastic, but more patronizing, he’s still up against years of careful, thoughtful study by impartial researchers who have nothing to gain by reinforcing error and everything to gain by writing the truth.