The Reason Lincoln Had to Die

[mikegriffith1]

(12-15-2018 03:12 PM)Gene C Wrote:  Mike, you brought up lamination of the diary pages, and seemed to make it significant.
You also mentioned the taking apart of Booth's diary.
I just brought up that you would have to take the book apart to laminate the pages and then reinsert them.
I also brought up that lamination was not used much if at all, prior to the 1930's.
You say, "Now, I'll tell you what: Let's just bracket the whole issue of lamination, since it really doesn't prove anything anyway"

I say, using logic, one could infer the book was taken apart in the 1930's, or later.
The book taken apart by Stanton and/or pages being removed prior to the 1930's, a theory, and nothing more.

I believe you mentioned Ben Butler and a speech he gave before the House of Representatives in 1867 (Unwanted Facts - Post #20)
Senator Butler, in that speech only mentions 18 missing pages of Booth's diary, not 86. (We know Two of those 18 pages were ripped out by Booth to write a thank you note to Dr. Richard Stuart for his hospitality)

Since Stanton had this book for two years, why did he supposedly rip or cut out 18 pages and leave the other so called 68 incriminating pages intact, and then after Butler's speech, allegedly remove them?
And no one noticed or said anything?
I don't interpret the events happening that way.

It's this kind of refusal to acknowledge compelling evidence that reminds me of the story of The Emperor's Wardrobe Malfunction.

Yes, I get that this is the Emperor's New Clothes talking point. How anyone can understand the nature of the editing that was done and then claim that it was all innocent is beyond me. How anyone can think that there's nothing suspicious about 86 pages being removed is beyond me--did Booth rip out all 86 pages, some of them only partially at strategic points, to write notes to people?

Like I said, laminating doesn't prove anything either way, because laminating does not alter or hide content.

I'll just note again that, unlike you folks, most Americans viewed the removal of 18 pages as suspicious, and if they had realized that 86 pages were missing, they would have been even more suspicious.

You have yet to explain why anyone would have moved sections in the diary the way they were moved. You have yet explain why a big chunk of the missing pages comes right after Booth was talking about coming back to Washington to clear his name. And the fact that you guys can't even admit that the diary should have been entered into evidence at the conspiracy trial shows a surreal refusal or inability to be objective.