It would seem that just by odd chance so much evidence was somehow lost like certain pages of Booths diary. How did Booth cross that guarded bridge? Even Booths body, if that was his body. And as far as Booth having southern connections? So did half the people in the United States including Lincolns own wife and her family.

The point is that Lincoln assination being a plot of the Confederacy is about as valid as the War being fought over slavery. But the victors write the history. And the foolish never question it. Just like the politically correct flap over the Governor of Virginia and the Confederate History Month declaration.