Was there an abortive attempt made by Booth to kidnap Lincoln in Jan. 1865?

[John Fazio]

(02-01-2016 02:21 PM)SSlater Wrote:  Do you really believe that there is really only "One Conclusion" that can be drawn from the facts available to us? Maybe! But that is the purpose of this forum, we want the opinion of others.

There are many "conclusions" already "concluded" by many authors before us and we read them, then formulate our own conclusion. I don't agree that "billions of historians, writers, etc. etc. - for 150 years " have all been wrong. Which historian provided information to you, that no one else has read?

Maybe, we will stumble into an agreeable conclusion some day, and we can close down this forum and all go home - but we aren't there yet.

SSlater:

I did not say there was only one conclusion that could be drawn "from the facts available to us", but I did say that there was only one conclusion that could be drawn from the three-premise syllogism that I gave.

Nor did I say "billions of historians...etc."; I said "thousands of historians...etc. and hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, who have read their works in the last 150 years...etc."

Even the masters go astray occasionally. Edison thought direct current was the wave of the future; Einstein thought nuclear power would never be controlled; Ezra Pound thought Hitler and Mussolini were statesmen instead of the buffoons and bloody tyrants they were.

John