Fortune's Fool

[Susan Higginbotham]

Here's what I got today from the author. I think you might know my reaction...

http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/20...lkes-booth

Did Baker really confess at the end of his life that he had helped Booth escape, as claimed by the author? It seems rather unlikely.

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OMG! What is with the American fascination with digging up our famous dead folks to have a look and "test" them?? We did it to poor Zachary Taylor. We did it to Lee Harvey Oswald. We did it to Medgar Evers. Every now and then there is an urgent request to dig up JFK.

Maybe RTL had the right idea after all when he had his father's body encased in cement!

Does any other country do this for the purpose of "testing"?

Over in the UK, the remains of Richard III were found beneath a parking lot, and were tested thoroughly before being reinterred with great ceremony this March. There are now plans to search for the body of another king, Henry I.