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

[mikegriffith1]

(12-02-2018 09:28 AM)Gene C Wrote:  I can accept the diary (somewhere in time) may have been taken apart, pages laminated and reinserted, in an effort to restore and preserve its contents.

"To restore and preserve its contents"??? I can't fathom how one could interpret the manipulation that the FBI documented as an effort "to restore and preserve its contents." I just can't fathom that interpretation. As a technical editor by profession, I can't imagine how any effort to restore and preserve a document would involve the kind of manipulation that the FBI lab report describes.

And since when does removing 86 pages from a document constitute "restoring and preserving its contents"???

Finally, here's a thought for consideration: Why have not any of the "experts/scholars/luminaries" who have accepted and repeated the military court's claims said one word about the manipulation documented in the FBI lab report? Steers ignores them and just quotes the summary statement about no invisible writing and no unusual obliterations/alterations being found (and he mistakenly applies this comment beyond its original scope of authorship and authenticity). Kauffman does not even do this but simply mentions--in an endnote--that the FBI found that 86 pages were missing. If you peruse the traditionalist literature on the Lincoln case, you will not find one word about the selective and targeted cutting, the shifting of portions of text, the partial removal of some sheets vs. the wholesale removal of other sheets, the removal and rebounding of pages, etc., etc.