Drawing of Booth Body

[John E.]

Hi Laurie, the photography was definitely scheduled BEFORE the autopsy and most likely around the same time as the identifying process. You are absolutely correct though, there were definitely better ways of identifying the body other than comparing photos to the face:

- The scar on the neck
- Dental methods
- Booth's tattoo on his left arm/wrist/hand...location du jour.
- David Herold's positive identification of Booth

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Laurie, as you previously mentioned, there was another eyewitness account that surfaced recently under the pen name "Nemo". While that account has some interesting observations, it was mostly fiction. The writer recalled that Dr. Mudd and a Maryland farmer were among the prisoners aboard the monitors Mahopac and Saugus. You read that right, "Mahopac". Nemo even provides a disclaimer that the events were "mostly true".

I'd like to read Nemo's imagined account of what would have happened had Lincoln turned around to see Booth in the doorway that tragic night. Many believe Booth would have had a particularly nasty fight on his hands with the old Rail Splitter. Perhaps it would look something like this: