Identification of Booth's body

[Steve Whitlock]

Someone asked me about my basis for saying that the bullet entered the man in the barn's neck at about a markedly downward angle. I have discussed the evidence of this in two posts in this thread. One source was the AFIP forensic review of the vertebrae, and the other source was Dr. Robert Arnold's analysis of the vertebrae and the wound descriptions.
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Mike,

If you really want to get to the bottom of the Boyd vs Booth question you have, without exhuming a body, consider the news article that mentions someone removing a lock of hair from the John Wilkes Booth corpse. If someone still has that lock of hair, and if a piece has the root still attached, mtdna can be taken, to be compared with a living maternal descendant from the same line as Booth's mother.

Steve W.