Booth sightings reported around world for decades; Shot assassin stays among living in tales, theories.(TRAVEL)(THE CIVIL WAR)

From: The Washington Times | Date: December 16, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: John Lockwood, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A common response to the deaths of the famous and infamous is to assume that they escaped somehow and still survive somewhere in obscurity. Such rumors have run the gamut from Hitler to Elvis.

Although Abraham Lincoln's death was far too public to allow any subsequent sightings of the man, his assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was not as fortunate. For several decades afterward, until the mortality tables began...

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