The Legend Of John Wilkes Booth

[Susan Higginbotham]

I admittedly haven't delved very far into the Booth escape theories, but I'm curious to know from Maharba why he thinks all those who identified Booth's corpse in 1865 and in 1869 were either lying or mistaken. I'm especially curious to know why Joseph Booth and the others who identified the remains at the undertaker's in 1869 would cynically deceive JWB's grieving mother and top off their performance by handing her a lock of hair from a corpse they knew to be that of a stranger.