** NEW DISCOVERY REGARDING BOOTH AUTOPSY PHOTO

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(06-26-2013 06:38 PM)SSlater Wrote:  I have not been following this thread, so I am way out there,but I found a James Wardell in Georgetown from 1860 to 1870 +/-. He shows up in the City Directory, but that's all I know.
For your amusement see http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ history-archaeology/documenting-the -death- of- an-assassin.html. It's a piece where the Smithsonian talks to the Archives on this same subject. (They don't know anymore that we do)

I guess that could be the guy or just another James Wardell. We will have to wait for John's supplement to read his argument that Wardell was a fiction.

Of course if Wardell did exist and his account can be believed then that would be evidence to contradict Gardiner's claim that no photo was ever taken.