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Identification of Booth's body
12-18-2018, 07:58 PM (This post was last modified: 12-18-2018 07:59 PM by Steve.)
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RE: Identification of Booth's body
Lawrence Gardner gave his account of seeing the body in this article from the April 1, 1891, edition of the Buffalo Commercial:

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Gardner seems pretty sure that the body he saw was Booth, even if it had a beard and signs "there had been great bodily suffering". He attributes the freckled appearance to exposure to the sun, meaning "liver spots".
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