"Alias Paine"

[RJNorton]

(01-30-2013 09:04 PM)J. Beckert Wrote:  Nothing can be proven, but like I said, I can't see it any other way. Makes sense or no?

Joe, at least for me, I am unclear on the "the Parker House meeting." I asked this once before:

Mr. James O. Hall wrote, "No record has been found to show that Booth was considering this scheme prior to the time he registered at the Parker House on July 26, 1864. Yet the evidence is persuasive that he left the hotel four days later for Baltimore to enlist the first two recruits into the evolving conspiracy that would ultimately take the life of Abraham Lincoln."

Also, on July 24, 1864, Booth wrote to Isabel Sumner, "I will come at once to Boston."

So did Booth go to meet with Confederate agents or to see Isabel Sumner?

I am not saying ALL of his meetings with Confederate operatives have two or more interpretations, but I think that one does. It's evidence like this that has prevented me from becoming a person who has ever fully come over to "the Condederate theory." And, yes, I understand that a clandestine operation is not going to leave that much to go on.

Yet at the same time the Confederate theory is the only other theory other than the simple conspiracy one that makes sense to me. Other theories, such as the Roman Catholic Church was behind it, or Edwin Stanton masterminded it, are nonsensical to me.