GDG- "Loose Bolts Sink....."

[Dennis Lawrence]

At 10:45 AM 12/21/2006, you wrote:
>Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
><<Proof of involvement in an attempt to capture
> >President Lincoln that had gone bad and led to his assassination is another
> >matter altogether, however.>>
>
><<I continue to   look for the evidence to support this. Confederate
>expatriation was neither unusual nor evidence of a tie to the assassination.
>
>              The assassination has spawned much speculation, and
>circumstantial evidence was used for many years against Stanton
>himself.  Absent any evidence that links these men to the assassination,
>this seems to fall in that same category.>>
>
>Dennis,
>
>         The point under discussion was not that there was proof of 
> Confederate
>involvement in the assassination, but what was the motivation for Benjamin
>to leave the country and never to return.  This is the type of thing that
>fuels the speculation.  At the same time, some assassination experts have
>come up with evidence that links Davis, Benjamin and other government
>officials to the plot to capture Lincoln.

Hello,

     I am always interested in the theories of assassination.  I do know 
that a document was uncovered not too long ago that suggested one of the 
Lincoln conspirators knew of a Confederate attempt to burn the White 
house.  That opens up a new line of investigation; albeit, one that must be 
taken carefully in light of the possibility that an accomplice of Booth 
would be privy to Confederate secret operations. But who knows who passed 
through Mrs. Surrat's boarding house or what information they brought?

   Perhaps there is hope for some documents to emerge on the complicity of 
the CSA in the assassination.  I am open to but skeptical of this 
speculation on the CSA's involvement without that.

Take Care

Dennis