Mudd Descendants visit Fort Jefferson NP

[L Verge]

You have given me good reason to be suspicious of some of your ideas, but trust me, you are several pegs down on my list of people to watch out for.

Unless I hear it from the ghosts of Mary Surratt and/or John Wilkes Booth, I will never believe that Booth visited the boardinghouse at any time after sundown on April 14. I have no doubts that Mary was working with Booth to some degree, but I see no reason for further contact an hour before the assassination. The field glasses being in Surrattsville was no big deal; Booth and Herold could certainly wake Lloyd up if need be; they could talk their way past pickets just like they did at the bridge.

Once Booth pushed his own "Go" button, he didn't need to discuss anything with Mary Surratt -- and he certainly was not going to abort the assassination over something that she might tell him an hour or so before the "appointed hour."