Unwanted Facts: Facts that Most Books on the Lincoln Assassination Ignore

[L Verge]

(12-16-2018 08:58 AM)mikegriffith1 Wrote:  

(12-11-2018 11:38 AM)L Verge Wrote:  I think you are underestimating Richard Smoot's story. Double-check, but I'm pretty sure that you are leaving out his previous visit to the boardinghouse a few nights before, when he was told to come back on Friday to see John.

Huh????? You might want to go back and re-read my reply. See also below.

Quote:Also, I don't recall that his conversations were with Anna; he spoke directly with Mrs. Surratt.

No, he spoke with Anna--during his previous visit, a few nights before that Friday, the very visit you somehow believe I failed to consider. Please go back and read my reply. I specifically mentioned the paragraphs before the one that Roger quoted, and those paragraph discuss that visit.

Quote:Just curious, do you ever intend to answer the numerous, good questions that a number of our posters here have thrown at you over the weeks? Inquiring minds want to know.

Humm, well, let's just say that you and I have different ideas about what constitutes a "good question." By the way, I've posed a whole bunch of questions that have gone unanswered. So welcome to the club.

In regards to the Smoot book, you must be reading the work of a different Mr. Smoot. Also, several of us on this forum worked with Randal Berry on his book regarding Smoot. Have you read, Shall We Gather at the River?

Good questions are ones that get to the heart of the matter of citing reputable and documented facts (perhaps that's why you avoid them? And on the other hand, perhaps that's why we avoid some of your speculative, off-base questions?)

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In regards to the Clampitt article written 15 years after the trial: First, please get his name correct if you are going to quote him. His name is John W. Clampitt, and there appears to be more known about him after the trial years than before and during. We have spoken with a family member (when the Surratt Society dedicated the tombstone to his partner, Frederick Aiken) and they knew very little of Clampitt either. The lawsuit that he brought against Aiken later seems to have gotten more attention than his participation in the trial.

In reading that article once again, I was reminded of how little accurate information he gave about Mary's early life and marriage, where she lived (not in the county of Marlborough because there was/is no such county in Maryland), etc. If we were inclined to reproduce this article for our visitors to take, we would certainly have to insert [sic] a number of times. I can also guarantee that 95% of our visitors would toss it in a trash can out of disinterest. We present the pertinent points on both sides of this history lesson and hope that a few will go home and do some more studies, but in this day and age, I fear we are hoping for too much.