I am not sure Bill. He may have. I was using the official versions of both assassinations to hilight the fallacy of Joe's assumptions.
Certainly if you have anything more I am more than willing to be convinced. Then again conspiracy does not require Oswald not to be the shooter, does it?
There are no fallacies in my argument. Only yours.
Question:
Is the Booth assassination of Lincoln an example of a conspiracy where Booth was selected to take part, the other conspirators waited until Booth lucked into a job that gave him a good chance to assassinate the President and then assassinated the President?
Answer:
No.
Booth was an actor before he thought of kidnapping or killing Lincoln. Booth was an actor before Lincoln was elected President. There were thousands of men in the Washington D. C. area who hated Lincoln. Booth, unlike the other thousands, may have started to think about kidnapping or murdering Lincoln because he knew that Lincoln sometimes visited the place he had worked in, the Ford?s Theatre.
Booth lucked into a job that allowed him a good chance to kill the President before there was a conspiracy. Question:
Can you name a single instance, that a conspiracy chose a participant in an assassination, and waited for that participant to luck unto a job putting him in a good position to commit the murder? And then had him commit the murder or to serve as a patsy.
Don?t re-word the question to something like, ?Can you think of an example that a Lone Nut happened to work in the same place the President often visited, and decided to murder the President, and then recruited others, making it a conspiracy.? I need an example where the Conspiracy came first, then one of the participants lucked into a certain job. Not an example where someone lucked into a job and decided to form a conspiracy.
If your answer is, ?Yes, the Booth-Lincoln assassination? then you have failed to come up with an example. The formation of the conspiracy must occur before the fortunate job. Like CTers alleged happened with the Oswald-Kennedy assassination.
I am confident you cannot come up with a single example.