New Booth Pic?

[HistoryFan]

Hard to read in this format, but so interesting!

According to the Cleveland account cited above, John Wilkes Booth confided to one of Sanford's minstrel performers, who confided to Simon Jefferson, which differs a bit from the story I read online. However, the parts about Jefferson warning the leading men in town matches the other story and also the part about Booth passing through Tamaqua on his way from Canada to Virginia and stopping in Simon Jefferson's barber shop.

I thought it interesting that Surratt was mentioned in this story, as well, as one of the party of Maryland "secesh" headed home after the Inauguration. According to this version, Booth drew his revolver on Surratt to quiet him. Wow!