John Fazio Interviewed

[Steve]

After reading the article it seems to me that the author's intent in writing is more about trying to justify his own beliefs in conspiracies relating to deaths of JFK, RFK, and MLK than in exploring John's book or Booth's confederate connections. Even after reading John's book

(And if the article author is somehow reading this post, Sirhan Sirhan was caught at the scene as he was firing his gun and in 1989 gave this interview to David Frost and Bill O'Reily where he freely admitted his crime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma_RpEcm7NY

So if the article author can use the word "patsy", he's out of touch with reality.)

But enough with that and back to John's book and Booth. I think a better analogy to the historical writing in regards to Booth's Confederate connections might be the Alger Hiss espionage case rather than those other assassinations. There's plenty of evidence but a lot of people just don't want to accept it. So if you think about it in a way, Louis Weichmann is a lot like Whittaker Chambers.

Also to John's point about the kidnapping plot. I tend to agree with John that I do think Booth intended to kill Lincoln and not kidnap him. But it's also apparent that some/most of the other conspirators believed it was a kidnapping attempt (the 17 Mar. 1865 hospital attempt). Though I do think the weight of the evidence points to Booth wanting to kill Lincoln from the beginning, I think one should be careful not to say we "know" that to be true with a certainty at least with the evidence we have. Also if the March attempt had gone through and Lincoln had died; the other conspirators who thought it would be a kidnapping, I guess they might be called "patsies" if they had gotten caught and Booth escaped.

Also Booth supposedly got the information that Lincoln had been invited to the performance of Still Waters Run Deep at Campbell Hospital in March 1865 from fellow actor E. L. Davenport. Does anybody know the original source where Davenport says that (or somebody who said Davenport told them that before he died)? Is there any other independent evidence Lincoln had been invited to the performance?