History in the Raw (The bare facts of history that you don't get to read very often)

My name is Jack Stanley, I have studied history for many years. This blog is about history in a more raw view, not over done. I often use original materials to bring a historic event or story to life or an interview I may have done with the person mentioned. If you cook a vegetable too long it loses much. The same can be said of many histories. They are the history of the history written before it. Over done history. THIS IS HISTORY IN THE RAW. Comments send to phonograph78@hotmail.com

Friday, August 21, 2009

John Wilkes Booth... I keep hearing that he was not shot and killed in 1865. There is a simple way to know.

A section of John Wilkes Booth's vertebrae.

This statement has been made time and time again. That it was not John Wilkes Booth who was shot and captured at Garrett's Barn on April 26, 1865. At his autopsy a section of his vertebrae was removed and is preserved to this day. All one has to do it check for DNA. Bones are the best places to hold DNA. Just compare it to the later members of his family and the case will be forever closed. That is ...if the DNA matches.