New Booth Pic?

[tom82baur]

(08-05-2016 08:37 PM)John Fazio Wrote:  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.

John

This is the pic that is claimed to be Booth.

The comment below was recently added to the page linked in the original post. And I agree that the purported resemblance is..... a stretch.
"alceso | Aug 2, 2016
I volunteer for Tudor Halll, the home of the Booth family including John Wilkes Booth. The photo being shown here on this article is definitely not John Wilkes Booth. You can check out the real photos of John Wilkes Booth on my good friend, Dave Taylor's website here: https://boothiebarn.com/picture-galleries/jwb-photos/"

And here is one of the Boothie Barn pics:
https://boothiebarn.files.wordpress.com/....jpg?w=490