New Development in Booth Case Coming Soon

[Steve Whitlock]

(07-18-2019 07:34 PM)Steve Wrote:  In an interesting aside, according to this 1959 article about Black's investigation - Black actually visited the undertaker in Leadville, CO and asked him if the John Wilkes Booth who died looked like the image/photograph of John St. Helen but the undertaker couldn't identify him as the man he buried:

https://archive.org/details/assassinati00linc/page/n69

I don't think Black was showing a daguerreotype and photograph of John St. Helen, but of John Wilkes Booth. The undertaker couldn't have buried David E. George/John St. Helen, who was still doing his mummy role on the fair circuits. So, the undertaker was being asked whether John Wilkes Booth who died and was buried in Leadville, CO in 1916 was the same John Wilkes Booth in Black's daguerreotype and photo.