New Development in Booth Case Coming Soon

[L Verge]

(04-14-2019 10:34 AM)mikegriffith1 Wrote:  

(04-13-2019 08:49 PM)L Verge Wrote:  

(04-13-2019 04:23 PM)mikegriffith1 Wrote:  

(04-13-2019 10:09 AM)L Verge Wrote:  I noticed that it is produced by Fight or Flight Studios, the same company that contacted me for Surratt House participation.

OIC. And did the project include a recognized expert in facial scanning analysis who has years of experience with a major police department?

It is just amazing to watch you folks preparing your talking points against something that will challenge your echo-chamber myths, and to watch you talk yourselves into dismissing whatever evidence is about to be presented before you have even seen one second of the documentary or read one line of the article. Obviously, you are not going to consider this evidence with anything approaching an open mind, but you're going to strain and reach to find any excuse to dismiss it and/or ignore it.

I just tuned back in to this announcement and found your sarcastic remarks about those of us who have experienced years of these so-called documentaries (that go nowhere except to screen credits at the end) rather humorous coming from you of a very closed mind. Sorta like the pot calling the kettle black, wouldn't you say?

Someday, when you have nothing else to do but challenge documented facts, I'll tell you about my forty years of experience dealing with these types of "history lessons" -- starting with Unsolved Mysteries, numerous History Channel, Discovery Channel, A&E, Nat Geo, History Decoded, and even The Conspirator film -- as both a historian adviser and a talking head.

Your 40 years of experience have led you to believe that Mary Surratt was guilty, that Lincoln had no firm Reconstruction policy, that Stanton cared deeply for Lincoln, etc., etc. As for your objectivity, I notice that your museum's bookstore carries very few titles that challenge your views. One would think that someone who has long been making their living off the name of Mary Surratt would at least have enough fairness to carry the best books that present her side of the story.

We have gone down this road of personal insults before, sir, and I have no intention of boring our readers any further by responding to your snips and snarls at me. You have already gone off the original topic by posting this jab at me. If you can stay on the documented historical facts and come up with important things that you have not repeatedly posted about here, I think we might have more meaningful dialogues for our members to participate in.

As I have stated before, I am not the gift shop manager nor buyer for Surratt House Museum (a long-time student of the assassination is, however). There are not that many recent and well-documented books devoted to the innocence of Mary Surratt - and we do carry the most significant one, An American Tragedy, by my deceased friend Elizabeth Steger Trindal.

And, I would like to think that I have made my living off of sound research on my own as well as that of many in the field over the past 50+ years who are/were more trained, more objective, and certainly more knowledgeable than both you and I. Too bad that you did not spend the money to come to the recent Surratt Conference where you could have met and learned from some of the current stars in our field, especially since you live so close... Sayonara