Identification of Booth's body

[mikegriffith1]

If I were surrounded by soldiers in a barn and ordered to surrender, why would I try to fight it out when I know that I'm not the man they're looking for???

Sigh. . . . Who said the man tried to fight it out? Who said that? According to Conger, the man had dropped his weapon and was headed toward the door seconds before he was shot. According to Jack Garrett, the man "made no movement to fire upon anybody" (Winkler, Lincoln and Booth: More Light on the Conspiracy, p. 188). We have only the word of the mentally ill and contradictory Boston Corbett that the man raised his weapon to fire.

You might also want to look at the forensic evidence that clearly indicates that Corbett could not have the one who fired the shot. I've discussed this evidence at length in this thread.