Identification of Booth's body

[AussieMick]

(12-06-2018 05:32 PM)Gene C Wrote:  With all those people called upon to view the remains, and with all those changes of appearance of the body,
who failed to identify the body as Booth's?

And how many people viewed the remains, commented on the condition of the body, but still identified the body as Booth's?

How many people who identified the body as Booth's, later changed their mind?

I'd be interested to know all of this, too.

Also, if you'd be so kind, could you tell us the date of Booth's dental chart, how many teeth were recorded on it ... and how many were in the body at autopsy.


(As an aside ... if I'd been on the run through the countryside and across rivers, without many changes of clothes for almost 2 weeks, maybe sleeping rough some nights, uncertain who was my friend and knowing that I'd hang if I were caught, with a smashed leg which must have been hurting like anything for all that time, having stumbled/dragged from a burning and very smokey barn, and having died after several hours from a very very painful gunshot wound ... I doubt that I would have looked my normal debonair self. My own mother may have been surprised at my appearance and , yes, even at my "lineaments" .... lineaments? Thanks Mike , this forum is certainly improving my vocabulary).