The Reason Lincoln Had to Die
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12-29-2018, 03:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-29-2018 04:50 PM by mikegriffith1.)
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RE: The Reason Lincoln Had to Die
(12-17-2018 05:42 PM)Dave Taylor Wrote:(12-16-2018 11:23 AM)Gene C Wrote: I can't tell you who, when, or why there are page missing from Booth's diary. One, the inside covers are clearly red. Red is the only color anyone would see if they saw someone writing in the diary, unless the writer were writing it in while holding it upright. And are you certain that the first picture is of Booth's diary? I ask because the flap or tab seen extending from the right side of the diary in the second picture does not appear in the first picture. Two, the Garretts saw the man writing on a date that came after Booth's last entry in his diary. Where is that entry? Three, if someone did not take the diary apart, what's with all the obvious glue? Four, how do you explain the shifted sections and the surgically removed pages? Five, why do one of Booth's sentences end in mid-sentence? Six, Congressman Butler made the point that the War Department’s prosecutors did not even inform the members of the military commission that they had Booth’s diary. Indeed, Butler noted that when Lieutenant Colonel Everton Conger, the man who supposedly found the diary on Booth’s body, testified at the conspiracy trial, the prosecutors carefully phrased their questions so that Conger’s answers contained no reference to the diary. Said Butler, Why was not Lieutenant Colonel Conger allowed to go on and state what had been found on Booth's body? The questions were carefully put to him so that he should not tell about this book. He identified a knife, pair of pistols, holster, tobacco pipe cartridge, and a bill of exchange, etc., but he was nowhere asked, "were these all the articles that were found on Booth?” If he had been asked that question, he would have answered that he took Booth's diary from his pocket. (Alexandria Gazette and Virginia Advertiser, March 27, 1867) Well, now, isn't that interesting? Why do you suppose Holt and Bingham did not even want the military judges to know they had Booth's diary? Mike Griffith |
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