Decapitation of the Union

[MajGenl.Meade]

(10-04-2015 12:05 PM)John Fazio Wrote:  

(10-04-2015 11:15 AM)L Verge Wrote:  John and Bill - I'm sorry, but how you can ignore critical and primary evidence such as Susan has posted here in favor of (once again) suppositions is beyond me.

I am not ignoring it, and I'm sure Bill isn't either. Susan makes some very good points. I hold, merely, that we do not have a clear answer.

"We do not have a clear answer" and yet, John, on page 17 of your book you state, in regard to Booth's alleged presence in Meadeville and the inscripted window: "We may be certain that Booth made the inscription. We may also be certain that it is a clear indication that as early as August 1864..... Booth had killing, rather than kidnapping, on his mind".

Your footnote (#32) to this entire story is again, Weichmann's book, written long after the event and relating occurrences that Weichmann could not have witnessed or had any personal knowledge of because he did not even meet Booth until 4-5 months later. He did at least have the honesty not to claim that Booth told him about the window later

What actual evidence is there that Booth performed in a play in Meadeville "for one performance only, and when it was over he retired to his room (and) left the city next morning" (page 17)? Perhaps it is Weichmann again.

Surely, the contemporary evidence that does exist is that Booth was most likely in New York on August 13 and there is no evidence of any kind that he was in Meadeville or any other place on earth?

[Apropos nothing, I am beginning to develop a healthy suspicion of Major Eckert. His fingerprints seem to be all over the shop]