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| Buried history. |
| 2019-04-28 |
| [Mirror] Did the man who killed America’s most famous president escape justice all along? New technology appears to have uncovered bombshell new evidence that it was not Booth who soldiers shot dead five days after he murdered Lincoln. And it suggests that, contrary to the history book accounts, Booth actually got away with the murder and lived for another 38 years under a different identity. The extraordinary breakthrough came after researchers used new facial recognition software to examine three photos, which have long been used by conspiracy theorists to throw doubt on whether Booth was really killed after he assassinated President Lincoln. One was an image of a man called John St Helen from 1877, the other was of the embalmed corpse of a David E. George from 1902, and the third was of John Wilkes Booth taken in 1865, shortly before he fired a 44.calibre pistol into the back of Lincoln’s head. The exercise was supposed to finally put the outrageous theory to bed - but scientists were stunned with what happened next. After the state-of-the-art software meticulously analysed the faces of similarities, such as the spaces between the eyes, the jaw lines, the shapes of the noses and cheek bones, the data showed a strong possibility that all three photographs were of the same man. It would mean that Booth wasn’t killed in the Virginia barn by a Union soldier after all but managed to escape the manhunt, living for another three decades as St Helen and George, before dying of natural causes in 1902 aged 64. Ramy Romany, an Egyptologist who helped oversea the Booth investigation as part of a new Discovery Channel series, Mummies Unwrapped, said: “I was absolutely shocked. |
| Posted by:Dale |
| #3 ...Interesting though it may be, this is an unlikely conclusion. Booth: *Identified himself prior to and after he was shot, *Was identified by literally dozens of people at the shooting site, *Was identified by a tattoo, *Was identified at his autopsy, and *Was identified by family after the autopsy. In addition, the bullet that took him down fractured three vertebrae in his neck, and partially severed his spinal cord. Even with 21st century medical tech, the best case scenario would be him bedridden on a respirator for what remained of his life. Any suggestion that he was up and around - or even capable of being moved - after his shooting is, to put it politely, dubious. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2019-04-28 10:16 |
| #2 but scientists were stunned "I was absolutely shocked." Scientists. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-04-28 08:59 |
| #1 Thanks mods for this post.I don't work with this type of posting much. This history has interesting surprises at times. What has surprised me the most is the absolute control Lincoln had over the media image he desired presented. Then "President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus to maintain public order in restive areas. Restive areas are areas in which people are restless, unruly and often disobedient. Habeas corpus refers to a person's right to appear before a judge before imprisonment". Then of course declaring martial law after the civil war. Media control as well to maintain order. |
| Posted by: Dale 2019-04-28 06:08 |