Identification of Booth's body

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(10-21-2018 09:15 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Thank you, Mike. Can you now address these questions: How did the man in the barn obtain John Wilkes Booth's diary? And, why did the fake Booth have a broken fibula in the same spot as the real Booth? Plus, Laurie's question, how did Booth's engraved stickpin happen to be holding together a torn undershirt on the fake Booth?

And what about the identification of the "plugged tooth" in Booth's skull in 1869?

And also: Why in the world would so many good historians (both professionals in the field as well as excellent lay folk) spend 150+ years trying to cover up your so-called Booth escapee? What possible gain would they have? Have they all been part of a secret Illuminati group intent on covering up many "evil" government (or behind-the-scenes) plots?

After sixty years of being addicted to the Lincoln assassination story - and understanding the times, the culture, and the sheer chaos of this one event near the end of the most catastrophic period in our history to date - I happen to think that the investigation may have been sloppy and not up to modern standards, but that the identification of the body was done correctly. I find no evidence that there was a GREAT AMERICAN HOAX played on our country for over 150 years like you want to suggest.

And, I certainly question the skills of those who have tried to sell "your" idea over those years. Eisenschiml called himself an "Armchair Historian," and I would agree. Just sit in your comfortable chair and theorize without getting into libraries, archives' stacks, family papers, etc. like the masters of the art of research have done and are still doing. And remember to use Occam's Razor along the way...