What happened to Booth after the manhunt

[Linda Anderson]

(04-03-2013 07:55 AM)LincolnMan Wrote:  When you think about it-it's kind of bizarre that it was considered okay to display a "mummy" of anyone, much less those that were purported to be that of JWB- I mean we are talking about people who were once alive. Seems very disrespectful-but I suppose it wasn't thought to be back then.

I agree that it was disrespectful, Bill. Circuses showed the same sort of disrespect with their side shows.

"The "Ten-in-One" offers a program of ten sequential acts under one tent for a single admission price. The ten-in-one might be partly a freak show exhibiting "human oddities" (including "born freaks" such as midgets, giants or persons with other deformities, or "made freaks" like tattooed people, fat people or "human skeletons"- extremely thin men often "married" to the fat lady, like Isaac W. Sprague)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideshow#Ty...ttractions