Grave of John Wilkes Booth

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Another anecdote from my past regarding the Booth obelisk tombstone: One of the great, unsung researchers in the assassination field was John C. Brennan. An afternoon with him was better than a whole semester with some of the PhD's that I endured in college.

Going on day trips with JCB was an experience, and he was very big on cemeteries. First, we would arrive at his apartment, and he would be making pineapple sandwiches for us to picnic on. That would be two slices of white bread, a ring of pineapple, and mayonnaise! You ended up getting used to the taste...

On one excursion to Green Mount Cemetery, we arrived at the Booth plot to find that some midnight boozer had left several bottles of "the world's finest" resting against the base of the main tombstone. Mr. Brennan quietly removed them and then announced to us that, "Junius always did have a drinking problem."