Did Booth have another pistol?

[Wesley Harris]

(07-29-2012 09:58 AM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Wesley: most informative, thank you. I personally don't find it a problem that Booth might have carried two pistols and that they may have been of different calibers. I wonder if the pistol at Ripley's is the same pistol owned by the author of the article mentioned in this thread?

Yes, the Ripley's pistol is the one Hamilton Cochran wrote about. Ripley's purchased it about ten years ago for about $70,000. They kept it in a vault for some years before deciding to display it. It's in the Ripley's museum in New York City.