Identification of Booth's body

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(10-23-2018 07:07 PM)Steve Whitlock Wrote:  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.

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.
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Lucinda Holloway clipped a lock of Booth's hair as she tried to comfort him during his last hours of extreme suffering (suffering which may have caused changes in his facial features?). It's been quite a few years, but that lock of hair was up for sale or auction within the past decade or so. It was in a gold, ornate (but small) frame of the Victorian era and had been passed down through the Garrett line until reaching a generation who saw no need to keep it. I have lost track of what happened to it, but someone on this forum must have a better memory than I.

The lock that Peddicord clipped was sold at auction a while back also. https://historical.ha.com/itm/political/...63-43282.s

Where is John Reznikoff when we need him? (P.S. Mr. Reznikoff is a well-known collector of celebrities' locks.)