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I think it's important to realize Booth's father also made written death threats against Andrew Jackson....so this dislike of Presidents isn't something that just comes out of the blue!
Wow. Thanks for the link. I had no idea that Booth could possibly be in one of the more common photos of the war.I included a link to another site that goes into more detail about this possibility.
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I've always enjoyed that photo. Until today, I had no idea who these guys were, much less that JWB might have been in the picture. Actually, I've always thought it was an early war photo of some kids that had just volunteered for theI don't know why, but ever since I was little that picture has always haunted me. I don't feel comfortable looking at it for some reason even to this day. It seems the guys in it stare straight through you. I have actually never noticed the knife before either.
My question, sorry to be off topic, is what is the guy leaning to the right doing? I've always wondered.
I love those old "roadside attraction" type gimmicks, plus I had forgotten about Omni Magazine.As an aside, there was once an attraction known as the "Minnesota Iceman", an alleged Bigfoot body in a freezer. For a while it was paraded about in private venues, including one in January, 1981 at the Fashion Square Mall in Saginaw, Michigan for a couple weeks; I saw the thing after forking over fifty cents, and as I looked I made a comment that latex rubber doesn't freeze, and sure-enough, an article appeared in Omni Magazine a year later in which a couple of Disney special effects technicians had actually made the thing. The Iceman then disappeared from view.
Now, what does a fake frozen Bigfoot have to do with J.W. Booth? According to the escape theory, he lived out his days as a house painter, dying in Enid, Oklahoma, where the mortician and a couple other people may have thought up of the idea of making a few bucks by parading his mummy at various venues...and somewhere along the line someone got a little too close to the corpse and proclaimed that he wasn't J.W. Booth. At which time the Enid mummy disappeared.
So, now we have three intriguing stories here to follow up on: Ed Booth's DNA test, the whereabouts of an Okie mummy, and a very ugly popsicle...
Yeah, shooting a man in the back isn't exactly an act of bravery.
As an aside, there was once an attraction known as the "Minnesota Iceman", an alleged Bigfoot body in a freezer. For a while it was paraded about in private venues, including one in January, 1981 at the Fashion Square Mall in Saginaw, Michigan for a couple weeks; I saw the thing after forking over fifty cents, and as I looked I made a comment that latex rubber doesn't freeze, and sure-enough, an article appeared in Omni Magazine a year later in which a couple of Disney special effects technicians had actually made the thing. The Iceman then disappeared from view.
Now, what does a fake frozen Bigfoot have to do with J.W. Booth? According to the escape theory, he lived out his days as a house painter, dying in Enid, Oklahoma, where the mortician and a couple other people may have thought up of the idea of making a few bucks by parading his mummy at various venues...and somewhere along the line someone got a little too close to the corpse and proclaimed that he wasn't J.W. Booth. At which time the Enid mummy disappeared.
So, now we have three intriguing stories here to follow up on: Ed Booth's DNA test, the whereabouts of an Okie mummy, and a very ugly popsicle...
Yeah, shooting a man in the back isn't exactly an act of bravery.
Where did you find the death date for Boyd? I checked out the 1870 census to see if he survived the war, but all I found was some of his kids living with what must have been foster parents. I decided Boyd's handlers might've whacked him when the hunt for Booth was over. The DOD of Jan 1, 1866, sounds a little suspicious.There was also Captain James William Boyd, CSA, 6th Tennessee Infantry, who died January 1, 1866. He was a prisoner of war until February, 1865, when he was released under a humanitarian order by Edwin Stanton so he could return home to care for his children, as their mother had died.
That should have been the end of it except for chemist Otto Eisenschml, who in the 1930's came up with a theory that the War Department under Stanton was responsible for a conspiracy to kill Lincoln; according to the scenario a major screwup happened during the chase to capture Booth. Instead of killing Booth in Garrett's tobacco barn, they got James William Boyd instead. Instead of admitting they goofed, they passed off Boyd's body as that of Booth, buried him in secret, and so on. The Eisenschml script was closely followed by 1977's book and film, The Lincoln Conspiracy, which you can see below.
Now, if the movie offends your sensibilities and common sense, please refrain from using your hammer on your computer.
I read in a book that Booth's parents migrated from England, but he was born in the States. So he was in fact...... a British???
How about shooting the President?
Where did you find the death date for Boyd? I checked out the 1870 census to see if he survived the war, but all I found was some of his kids living with what must have been foster parents. I decided Boyd's handlers might've whacked him when the hunt for Booth was over. The DOD of Jan 1, 1866, sounds a little suspicious.
As to a "mark of bravery" for shooting a president, what matters is the fact that it was cold-blooded murder; doing so from behind was the act of a coward.
So, here's Johnny Booth on April 14, 1865, having grandiose thoughts, yet having to spend several hours at the saloon next door washing down some "liquid courage" before pretending to be a Confederate hero and sneaking up behind an old man in a rocking chair to put a bullet in the back of his head.
Good enough. I might be able to find the article.The information about Boyd came from online, but even then it was scant. What little that was there stated his death was confirmed in a Tennessee newspaper. Which one it was is unknown.
Cumpston1862,
I'm literally laughing out loud ! I think I just woke up the neighborhood. Next time, please post "graphic" or something if you post that character's picture ! He also ruined the early 90's TBS movie "Ironclad".
But on a serious note, I agree 100% with your assessment of Booth.