Decapitation of the Union

[Susan Higginbotham]

(10-03-2015 08:00 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  In his book John maintains that an inscription on a windowpane at McHenry House Hotel in Meadville, PA. was made by none other than John Wilkes Booth himself. John is certainly not the only author who has written that Booth did this. But did he? For example, here is what Roy Chamlee writes in his book:

Is this really Booth's work? Opinions?

Art Loux has Booth ill in New York with erysipelas of the arm on August 10, 1864, and still ill in New York on August 28, so he couldn't have gone to Pennsylvania to etch this on August 13. I don't see why he would have etched it later when Lincoln clearly wasn't dead by poison. That leaves only the possibility that he etched it some time before that, and that just doesn't strike me as likely.