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

[mikegriffith1]

(12-28-2018 09:55 AM)Gene C Wrote:  According to some recently found missing pages from the Potter Papers, The defense at the Surratt trial had a secret witness that the judge wouldn't allow, who was going to blow a garbage truck sized whole in Anna's lie, because the 9:00 PM visitor was an officer who's name was Scott, who looked like Booth and Boyd, except for the freckles, walked with a limp due to a war time injury, and even had a black and red notebook that he always had with him (that he had retrieved from the garbage truck). He even had the initials JWB on his lower arm, which he had put there as a tribute to a long lost love. Her name was Jezebel Wihelmina Bonaparte (the French-Dutch-New York connection) and more about her later - maybe.

Scott was a highly accomplished officer, who had studied engineering, and was on the school gymnastics, rowing team and was in several school theater productions including, The Lying, The Snitch and the Wardrobe Malfunction. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined the army and worked closely with Thaddeus Lowe and was an aeronautical engineer on board a new type of balloon designed for night time observation - a starship craft named the USS Enterprise.

It's all in an upcoming book by amateur historian, Kent B Leavitt

That sounds almost as fanciful as the Confederate conspiracy theory and the hilarious perjury that the prosecution solicited to support it at the conspiracy trial.

Can you just not come to grips with the obvious fact that Weichmann lied? Why oh why didn't Weichmann claim that Booth was the 9:00 PM visitor when he spent hours giving his story to the Metropolitan Police or during his testimony at the conspiracy trial? Slipped his mind?

Weichmann's dubious August 11 statement to Col. Burnett was the first time Weichmann ever even suggested the visitor might have been Booth. He said he asked Mary Surratt if the visitor she was expecting at 9:00 was Booth and that she did not respond.

Uh, what? According to Weichmann, Booth had already visited with Mary twice that day, in Weichmann's presence no less. So why would Mary have been hesitant to say that Booth would be visiting her again at 9:00? It's just so much nonsense.

And, of course, there is also the little problem that we know that Booth was seen at Ford's Theatre at a few minutes after 9:00 that night. You might wanna read Thomas Bogar's recitation of the times Booth was seen at or near the theater between 7:45 and 10:10 that evening (Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination, pp. 101-106).

The issue was settled at the John Surratt trial when the defense established that the 9:00 PM visitor was not there to see Mary Surratt but one of her boarders. This makes sense, since Mary told Eliza Holohan earlier in the day that she'd attend church with her that evening, and since Mary and Eliza left for church after dinner.