An Old Story Is Back...

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Booth buffs have heard about this story for decades, but it is making a reappearance:

The Tunnel King: The Search for John Wilkes Booth's Diary in the New York Subway System
By Mark Johnson of the [Milwaukee] Journal Sentinel

June 11, 2014

Thirty years ago, a New Yorker no one had heard of found the oldest subway tunnel in the world under a half-mile of Brooklyn. But Robert Diamond believed his greatest discovery was still to come: a locomotive buried in the tunnels along with lost pages from the diary of John Wilkes Booth.
This bizarre, fascinating story appears in Newsweek,of all places. And it's terrific. What a yarn!
Newspapers and magazines seldom publish stories about the fringe characters who live their lives on the far edges of the news. Joseph Mitchell used to write these stories for The New Yorker decades ago.
The current Newsweek story [below] is by writer Joe Kloc.

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/262731721.html