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New Booth Pic?
08-05-2016, 08:37 PM
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Tom:

Both the interpretation of the photo as Booth and the story that goes with it--Booth telling a black barber that he intended to kill the president; the barber's being related to Thomas Jefferson through Sally Hemmings; and the barber trundling off to Washington to warn Lincoln--are tortured. The man in the photo bears only a very slight resemblance to Booth; he is wearing a hat we have not seen Booth wear in any other photo; and his clothes are singularly pedestrian compared to the finery we usually see on Booth in the photos of him about which there is no controversy. Conclusion: The photo is almost certainly not of Booth and the story has all the earmarks of fiction, and not very good fiction at that.

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New Booth Pic? - tom82baur - 08-01-2016, 09:54 AM
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RE: New Booth Pic? - Dennis Urban - 08-03-2016, 11:32 AM
RE: New Booth Pic? - John Fazio - 08-05-2016 08:37 PM
RE: New Booth Pic? - tom82baur - 08-06-2016, 09:03 AM
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RE: New Booth Pic? - tom82baur - 08-06-2016, 09:30 PM
RE: New Booth Pic? - RJNorton - 08-06-2016, 12:34 PM
RE: New Booth Pic? - LincolnMan - 08-06-2016, 06:31 PM
RE: New Booth Pic? - HistoryFan - 08-14-2016, 10:34 PM
RE: New Booth Pic? - HistoryFan - 08-14-2016, 11:36 PM
RE: New Booth Pic? - Gene C - 08-15-2016, 07:08 AM
RE: New Booth Pic? - Eva Elisabeth - 08-15-2016, 07:38 AM
RE: New Booth Pic? - RJNorton - 08-15-2016, 07:57 AM
RE: New Booth Pic? - Gene C - 08-15-2016, 09:06 AM
RE: New Booth Pic? - L Verge - 08-15-2016, 09:18 AM
RE: New Booth Pic? - BettyO - 08-15-2016, 10:27 AM
RE: New Booth Pic? - Gene C - 08-15-2016, 10:59 AM
RE: New Booth Pic? - Susan Higginbotham - 08-15-2016, 11:37 AM
RE: New Booth Pic? - HistoryFan - 08-16-2016, 12:58 PM
RE: New Booth Pic? - L Verge - 08-16-2016, 02:42 PM
RE: New Booth Pic? - HerbS - 08-16-2016, 04:14 PM
RE: New Booth Pic? - L Verge - 08-16-2016, 04:40 PM
RE: New Booth Pic? - Eva Elisabeth - 08-16-2016, 10:25 PM
RE: New Booth Pic? - RJNorton - 08-17-2016, 04:04 AM
RE: New Booth Pic? - L Verge - 08-17-2016, 08:56 AM
RE: New Booth Pic? - Eva Elisabeth - 08-17-2016, 12:30 AM
RE: New Booth Pic? - L Verge - 08-17-2016, 11:33 AM
RE: New Booth Pic? - Susan Higginbotham - 08-17-2016, 12:35 PM
RE: New Booth Pic? - HistoryFan - 08-17-2016, 08:06 PM
RE: New Booth Pic? - L Verge - 08-18-2016, 09:16 AM
RE: New Booth Pic? - RJNorton - 08-18-2016, 04:34 AM
RE: New Booth Pic? - Gene C - 08-18-2016, 06:53 AM
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RE: New Booth Pic? - RJNorton - 08-19-2016, 04:11 AM
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RE: New Booth Pic? - HistoryFan - 08-22-2016, 10:31 AM
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RE: New Booth Pic? - HistoryFan - 09-25-2016, 10:48 AM
RE: New Booth Pic? - RJNorton - 09-25-2016, 11:51 AM
RE: New Booth Pic? - HistoryFan - 09-25-2016, 12:01 PM
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