Identification of Booth's body

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(12-10-2018 09:23 PM)Rob Wick Wrote:  I've always believed that stopping at the Garrett farm was the worst thing ever to happen to Booth, because it did cause him to finally let his guard down after however many days (and what a nonsensical argument) on the run. Booth had been so roundly condemned by those whom he thought would celebrate his act, that once he came upon people who didn't know what he had done and who treated him with dignity (all because Richard Garrett thought Booth was a Confederate soldier much like his own sons) he was as good as captured. But it wasn't the Bowling Green Hilton he was staying at. He knew he had to eventually keep running. Once the troops rode by, he spent at least one or two hours in the woods outside the Garrett farm. Someone who had not shot the president days before would not have done that, but there I go again, using that silly logic.

I've mentioned this before, and while I'm sure Mr. Griffith can explain it away with little trouble, those who are seriously interested in real evidence might find this letter found in Ida Tarbell's papers (among other Lincoln biographers and writers) of interest.

https://dspace.allegheny.edu/handle/10456/29091

Best
Rob

Rob,
I just love that line in Rev. Garrett's letter "Do you think us such fools?"