Identification of Booth's body

[mikegriffith1]

(10-17-2018 04:43 PM)L Verge Wrote:  I was good friends with Bill Hanchett - trust me, he thought the Booth escaped theory was rubbish also.

I have already noted that Hanchett rejected the Booth-escaped theory. He also rejected the Baker cipher notes, and he cited as his main reason for doing so the widely accepted but demonstrably erroneous claim that Lincoln and the Radicals were really not that far apart on Reconstruction.

http://miketgriffith.com/files/boothescaped.pdf

(10-17-2018 04:43 PM)L Verge Wrote:  As for the consistent use of the name "Boyd" during the escape, have you ever heard the term "cover story?" Just as Booth posed as a prospective buyer of farmland in Southern Maryland in 1864 (cover story), is it impossible to consider that using a fake name was part of his cover during his flight? Remember that he used a different name at Mudd's house.

Then why didn't he use the name "Boyd" at Mudd's house? What about the gray clothing? Furthermore, we know that Boyd was in the area of Garrett's farm and that he was seen using a crutch.

And what about the powerful medical evidence that the shot that killed the corpse examined on the Montauk traveled at a substantially downward angle? I'm not just talking about Dr. Arnold's analysis but also the analysis that was done by a team of forensic pathologists from the NMHM and the AFIP in 1993. I quote:

Quote:. . . a team of forensic pathologists and anthropologists for the National Museum of Health and Medicine and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology examined the vertebrae and spinal cord and were able to establish that the fatal wound entered high on the right and exited low on the left side of the neck, that it was not self-inflicted. . . . (Gretchen Worden, "Is It the Body of John Wilkes Booth?", Transactions and Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 5:16, December 1994, p. 78, emphasis added)

This contradicts all the accounts of what the man in the barn was doing just before he was shot. And this is not to mention the forensic and documentary evidence that the bullet was a rifle bullet and not a pistol bullet.

(10-17-2018 04:43 PM)L Verge Wrote:  As for your last paragraph where you accuse Luther Baker of altering the clothing and defacing the body of Booth -- come on now, give us a break! If you are considering authoring a book on the escape of John Wilkes Booth, may I suggest that you term it a historical novel?

Then why did Baker take off with the body for several hours? Why? Give me some rational, reasonable explanation for such an apparently suspicious action. And do you have any idea how many murder cases there are on record where the perpetrators tried to alter the appearance of the body? Have you never heard of cases where the bad guys swapped their victim's body with someone else's body to try to cover up their crime?

And then there are the obvious questions of, Why did the body on the Montauk look so different from Booth? Why did the body look so unlike Booth that Major Eckert did not even want any autopsy photos taken? Why was the face of the body "very much freckled," yet Booth was not freckled?