Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination

[RJNorton]

Another bizarre moment as described in book is the passing around Booth's severed head among several family members and orhers who were present prior to the final burial of his remains.

Quoting from The Great American Myth by George S. Bryan:

"The detached head, Foard (a newspaperman) said, was passed around and looked upon - in somewhat the fashion that John, as Hamlet, might have looked upon Yorick's skull."