Free Walking Tour

[wsanto]

I took a Free Walking Tour of D.C this past weekend called The Lincoln Assassination Free Walking Tour.

Sounds like today's computer software - "freeware" ain't where it's at anymore! Perhaps the mistakes are why this tour was free.... one probably has to pay to get the "upgraded Good/Correct" tour!

Of course it wasn't really "free". You were expected to give a tip at the end. Most people gave between $5-20. I think she did pretty well for herself for a 2-hour tour.

Apparently Ford's has their own tour which would probably be a lot more accurate. I didn't know about it until after we already had this one booked.

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She also said Atzerodt's room was in Booth's name--I never heard that before.

Bill, I think you are definitely correct. I think the Kirkwood House's register was produced at the trial, and a "G.A. Atzerodt, Charles County" took a room on the morning of the 14th.

Atzerdot did register under his own name. See a photo of the register below from Dave's boothiebarn website. Of course much of what was found in his room was Booth's - that may be where the tour guide got mixed up.

http://boothiebarn.com/picture-galleries...-register/

One other thing she mentioned was that Booth left the note at the Kirkwood and had a room there in order to implicate Johnnson by association in the conspiracy just in case Atzerodt was unable or unwilling to kill him.

I guess that's the way things worked out for Johnson to some degree in the end but I'm not sure that was Booth's intention.