Time for a memorial honoring Boston Corbett?

[Rick Smith]

Thanks, Roger, for referring to Bill's and my article, and for posting the link.

The point of the article, for those who have not read it, or for those who did not read the entire text, was to show that Wilkes Booth most certainly could have manipulated his weapon in such a way as to have inflicted the wound he died from. We did not say that he did kill himself, only that it was absolutely possible, had he wanted to do so. If he had attempted to shoot himself in the way that Dr. Lattimer described, by pulling the trigger with his thumb, he most certainly would not have been able to inflict the wound which killed him. But, as Steve observed in a previous post, Booth did seem determined not to be taken alive.