The Reason Lincoln Had to Die

[Steve]

(01-19-2019 04:34 PM)mikegriffith1 Wrote:  Uh, ok, then where are those pages in the extant diary? Where are they? His last entry is dated three days before the Garretts saw Boyd writing in a black diary. So how would that have worked? Did Booth accidentally--or, odder still, purposely--leave some blank pages, write on pages that came after them, and then decide to go back and write on the blank pages?! Is that your theory? Why don't the dates match, then? Why aren't there entries dated for when the Garretts saw Boyd writing in his diary?

You see, rather than just admit the obvious problem here, you must come up with illogical, unreasonable theories to avoid the clear implications of the evidence. People write in diaries in chronological order. They write on one page and then on the next page. That's how 99.9% of the human race writes in their diaries, if they keep one. In all the diaries I've read in researching various subjects, I've never seen a diary like the one you feel obliged to posit. Nor do people edit their diaries in the way you folks are suggesting that Booth "edited" his: they don't shift sections around (why on earth would anyone do that?), and they don't remove some pages here, partial pages there, cutting off some pages in midstream, etc., etc. Nobody does that to their own diary.

Booth was clearly writing in his diary until at least April 25, 1865. If you look at the makeshift calendar Booth wrote in the calendar, the days are crossed off until April 25th. The image of the calendar below is a gif that switches between the original image and an easier to read transcription, courtesy of the BoothieBarn website:



The makeshift calendar starts on April 17th, indicating that Booth wrote the calendar out to June 18th on either April 16th or 17. He continued marking off each day until April 25th, when he was definitely able to have been seen writing in the diary at Garrett's farm.