Was Stanton a murder target?

[loetar44]

(12-17-2016 04:30 PM)John Fazio Wrote:  

(12-17-2016 03:41 PM)loetar44 Wrote:  John,

do I understand you well enough, by saying that you don’t exclude “doppelgangers” in connection with Lincoln’s assassination? Is this a flip-flop or was it always your opinion that “doppelgangers” were involved?

Kees

Kees:

That is true: I do not exclude doppelgangers as a possible explanation for apparent conflicts in the record. But I believe that postulating them is a stretch and should be done only as a last resort. I frankly do not know how to reconcile Demond's and Dana's accounts of what happened at the bridge on the 14th with everything else we know about Booth's and Herold's movements on that day. The only explanation thus far offered is that both Demond and Dana, quite separately and at different times, told essentially the same story (differing only as to time), and that the story is a total fabrication. I find that very hard to believe, harder than believing that Booth may have arranged for a couple of look-alikes to establish an alibi for him if he needed it. I grant that both explanations are far-fetched; it is a question of which is the more far-fetched, or is there still another explanation for the glaring inconsistency?

John

Thanks for your answer John. There's so much food for thought. It seems that the more one reads, the less one knows. The starting point of a (new) theory.
Just a thought of mine:

Was Booth’s “look alike” on the bridge deliberately NO conspirator? After all, it was a lot more safe for Booth, if only a few others knew of his plans.

John Wilkes Booth was a famous actor. As actor, he used routinely stand-ins, because he lived in the time of live theater and if he was incapacitated by illness, for example, he needed a stand-in to perform the role, because “the show must go on”, always. The stand-in then acted as John Wilkes Booth, the public was unaware of the change. Was there an (anonymous ?) actor, a look alike, who was Booth’s stand-in on the bridge? And was there a stand-in for Herold too? If so they might have handled not as part of a huge complot, but only to supplement income. It was an easy task to appear on the bridge for both. It was easy to "act" there as Booth and Herold. I remember that I once read that stand-ins for actors also ran errands to supplement income.