Identification of Booth's body

[L Verge]

Good summation, Roger. Both Balsiger and Sellier have now died, and I wish that their movie and book would also. BTW: In sources like Wikipedia, NY Times, etc. summaries state that the movie was made from the book. Actually, it is vice versa, if I remember correctly. The movie came out in 1977, and then the two culprits wrote the book.

Here's what TV Guide had to say about the movie when it went small screen: Rating: screen shows only one star.

A dubious historical "re-enactment" proposing that Lincoln (portrayed by Anderson) was the victim of a conspiracy organized by Secretary of War Edward Stanton (portrayed by Middleton). Supposedly the secretary and his supporters were displeased with Lincoln's willingness to rebuild the South, so they secretly met and plotted to abduct the President. The "official" plan is to have confederate spy Boyd (played by Greene) kidnap Lincoln from the historic Ford's Theater. Booth (portrayed by Dillman), however, learns of the plan and takes advantage of the opportunity to assassinate Lincoln. A massive search takes place, and a suspect is gunned down--Boyd, not Booth. The natural cover-up follows, and the rest is history--sort of. The only thing THE LINCOLN CONSPIRACY actually reveals is America's fascination with conspiracies in general. Coming on the heels of Watergate and capitalizing on the Lincoln-Kennedy connections (a trendy topic of discussion in the mid-1970s), THE LINCOLN CONSPIRACY leads us to believe that John Wilkes Booth is living in exile (perhaps on the mountain where Noah's Arc supposedly is located) with a senile old Hitler, a Russian double of Lee Harvey Oswald, and an aging John F. Kennedy who is still running the country from his invalid's bed.

At Surratt House we used to tease and say Booth is with Hitler, Kennedy and Elvis on an isolated island and that Amelia Earhart is their housekeeper...

I think if you Google The Lincoln Conspiracy book and movie, one of the Wiki sites might have a photo of Boyd. And, I was mistaken when I said Boyd was killed in 1866 by a horse thief. He was killed by an Army unit that accused him of being the horse thief!