"How Booth's Body Was Hidden"

[Gene C]

Below is a 26 page article written by Dr. George Porter in 1911 for the Columbian magazine.

https://archive.org/stream/howboothsbody...2/mode/2up

I've only read part of it. It's interesting.

Who was Dr. Porter? In his own words, from the second page of his article,

"Whether my participation in the secreting
of the assassin’s body or the
fact that I was the medical officer of
the arsenal caused the following order
to be issued, I have no means of knowing,
but from the moment it was placed
hi my hands until the monitor Florida
turned north from Fort Jefferson, Dry
Tortugas, after delivering four of the
conspirators to the commanding officer
to begin their sentences, I was in daily
attendance upon them and I was one
of three surgeons to pronounce dead the
other quartette as its members’ bodies
dangled from the gibbet-fastened nooses
in the yard of the penitentiary at two
o’clock on the afternoon of July 7, 1865"