Identification of Booth's body

[Gene C]

No, I do not believe I am misreading Conger's statement about the man in the barn's actions just before he was shot. Conger said that he heard something drop (which was apparently the crutch), that the man then "dropped his arm," "relaxed his muscles," and started walking toward the door, and that just a few seconds after that the shot rang out. That certainly sounds like someone who was surrendering.

I'll politely disagree with you Mike, it looks to me that Booth had no intention of surrendering.
Booth's final words to the Union soldiers, as they asked him to surrender, sounded to me more like the words of a second rate actor, in a second rate play, who is portraying the character of a rejected and wounded "hero" facing a martyr's death. If you read Booth's diary, he certainly envisioned himself that way.