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John Wilkes Booth exhumation refused again Family had hoped to put escape theory to rest
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John Wilkes Booth will remain firmly planted in Green Mount
Cemetery, the Court of Special Appeals said Tuesday in rejecting a
request to dig up President Abraham Lincoln's assassin.
"That's delightful," said William C. Trimble, president of the
Baltimore cemetery. "Let us hope the matter will now requiescat in
pace."
But the ruling is not likely to end speculation over the grave,
which some claim holds the body of another man.
"The Booth family is very disappointed, a...
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John Wilkes Booth home to be sold
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; To the dismay of preservationists, the childhood home of presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth is to be auctioned. "There would be a huge public outcry if it were bulldozed," said Gary Sloan, executive director of the Preservation Association for Tudor Hall Inc. "It's become the legacy of the
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Let the Mute Bones Speak
The Washington Post
; As one of the historians and one of the descendants of John Wilkes Booth who are leading the effort to have his alleged remains exhumed and examined, we feel compelled to respond to the Nov. 13 letter of the director of the Surratt House Museum, Laurie Verge. Ms. Verge's contentions are mistaken.
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Assassin! More than a century after his death, John Wilkes Booth still stirs curiosity and passion.(CULTURE VULTURE)
Sarasota Magazine
; like most Americans, I first heard about John Wilkes Booth back in the third grade and haven't given him much thought since. He was on that list of Presidential assassins, those troubled young men who take out their frustrations and psychological problems on the ultimate authority figure and have
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Booth's Body Lies A-Moldering in His Grave
The Washington Post
; Richard H. Hall {Close to Home, June 25} labeled those who believe that John Wilkes Booth was not killed in 1865 as "true believers." He was too kind. As an expert witness at the recent Booth exhumation hearing, I demonstrated for the court that some who have hawked the story were aware that it was
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Sic Semper John Wilkes Booth
The Washington Post
; When James Judy--who plays John Wilkes Booth in "Reunion, a Musical Epic in Miniaturecomes down the steps on the Ford's Theatre stage, he feels "an instant waft of cold air--and a sense that someone, or some invisible presence, is watching from stage right." "I feel that something is going on, but
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John Wilkes Booth: Let Him Rest in Peace
The Washington Post
; Much media attention has been given recently to the proposal to exhume the remains of John Wilkes Booth to "prove" a century-old theory that the assassin actually escaped the 1865 federal dragnet and that the body in Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore is that of someone else. As director of Surratt
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Unearthing Truth About Demise of Lincoln's Assassin; Remains May Be Exhumed
The Washington Post
; Did John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln's assassin, die a fiery death in a Virginia barn at the hands of federal captors 130 years ago, as official history tells us? Or is the truth more lurid -- a tangled tale of conspiracy and coverup in which Booth escaped his pursuers and lived to
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Expert on Lincoln assassination will visit Round Table
Sunday News Lancaster, PA
; Every school child learns that deranged actor John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre, escaped on foot, and died 12 days later in a Virginia barn fire. Eight others were arrested and tried; four were executed, four imprisoned. Author-historian Michael W. Kauffman, one of
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On an Assassin's Trail
The Washington Post
; This holiday week, most viewers won't be expecting a show about a manhunt for a presidential assassin more than a century ago. But those who watch "The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth" may find themselves intrigued by the massive 12-day local search. On April 14, 1865, as he was watching a play at
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Boyhood home of John Wilkes Booth close to becoming public attraction
The Daily Record (Baltimore)
; Efforts to turn the boyhood home of John Wilkes Booth into a public attraction, possibly a theater-related museum, are one step closer this week after Harford County officials and the property's owners agreed on a contract. Aimee O'Neill, president of auction house O'Neill Enterprises, said the
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