The Reason Lincoln Had to Die

[mikegriffith1]

(12-12-2018 06:06 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(12-11-2018 09:45 PM)mikegriffith1 Wrote:  Where in the world would Booth have had the time and equipment to do the kinds of alterations documented in the report?

In Right Or Wrong, God Judge Me: The Writings of John Wilkes Booth the editors deduce that Booth probably purchased the datebook from stationer James M. Crawford in January 1864 in St. Louis. That would have given Booth roughly 15 months to fiddle around with the diary's pages before the time he was on the run. Mostly I think he tore out pages to write notes on. Why do you assume all the changes were made in April 1865?

Have you ever in your life known anyone who edited their diary like that? I'm not sure you understand the nature and degree of the editing under discussion. Do you understand that the diary was taken apart and then glued back together? Do you understand that one of the chunks of removed pages was cut from right after the spot where Booth talks about possibly going back to Washington to clear his name? Do you understand that some sections were moved to other sections? Why on earth would anyone do that to their own diary?

And for the person who expressed an interest in sources on Custer's Last Stand, I unbelievably failed to mention Gordon Harper's book Fights on the Little Horn: Unveiling the Myths of Custer's Last Stand (2014).