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12-15-2018, 09:00 PM
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RE: Identification of Booth's body
Quote:Someone noted that Dr. May never said the body was not Booth, that he always claimed to have identified the body as Booth, as if somehow this settles the matter. If that is the standard, then why does not the fact that Dr. Mudd always solemnly swore that he did not recognize Booth when Booth stayed at his house with a broken ankle settle the matter? I hope you're being sarcastic, but if you really think the two situations are the same, I would like to introduce you to a legal case, Apples v. Oranges. Whether Dr. May said it was Booth or wasn't, he was not facing time in jail or at the end of a rope. Mudd was. Therefore (and I can't believe I have to spell this out) one could not take Mudd's word at face value. Best Rob Abraham Lincoln in the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom. --Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent. --Carl Sandburg
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