Booth autopsy

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(08-18-2013 07:52 PM)J. Beckert Wrote:  Thank you, Bill. So, if this is a posterior view, it's safe to say the bullet entered from the front right quadrant of Booth's neck and traveled, as Woodward said, with a slight inclination downward and backward. I think from your response that you favor the theory that Corbett shot Booth, but being it entered from the front, I think it also makes it more feasible that Booth shot himself. No?

I guess it is feasable, based solely on the autopsy, that Booth may have shot himself. But why would he shoot himself in the neck? The neck shot makes the suicide theory very unlikely in my opinion. Almost invariably people try to shoot themselves through the brain (mouth, temporal) or through the heart.