If you read just about any history book on the United States you’ll see that John Wilks Booth shot Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theater. Ask anyone living in the US who killed Lincoln and they’ll say it was Booth. A lot of people don’t even know there is a serious question as to who did the shooting and whether or not Booth died in that Tabaco barn in Virginia.
Booth was to be taken alive no matter what. As the fire raged Sergeant Boston Corbett looked through the gaps in the barn side and spotted Booth. He took aim and shot him in the back of the neck. The troupes out front managed to grab Booth and drag his body from the burning structure. The body was taken to Washington for an autopsy. Oddly enough, the body did have a broken leg only it was the left leg.
Many people who were familiar with Booth said the body didn’t really look like him. Once the fire was out the troupes found Booth’s book and papers in the ashes. The paper was not burned or even scorched.
In the years following those events, even some of the United States military have called into question the official events. Just after the turn of the century, John Schmuker was General Council to the Department of the Army and he went on record insisting that evidence supporting the conclusion that Booth was executed at Garrett Farm would not stand up to cross examination in a court of law.
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