Mosby

[L Verge]

As in the case of the "missing pages" of Booth's diary that were supposedly in the hands of Joseph Lynch nearly forty years ago, the Potter Papers have been presented to historians for verification in typed transcript only. To my knowledge, none of Neff's and Guttridge's "findings" have been shown in original, handwritten copies. That waves a red flag to experts right away. Then, the experts look for things such as Betty mentioned above that place the papers out of context for their time in history.

Len Guttridge was a very nice man with whom I had quite a few conversations over the years. His specialty was naval history, and I was never quite sure how he became involved with Ray Neff and the Lincoln assassination theories. In one of the last conversations I had with him before his death, I got the distinct feeling that he didn't know why he got involved in Neff's doings either. By that time, it was too late.