In this episode I tell you about the lives of two men, John Wilkes Booth, the man who shot Abraham Lincoln, and Boston Corbett, the man who shot Booth. Or did he? Stories persist over the years that the man Boston Corbett shot was not really John Wilkes Booth, and that Booth lived on for decades after. Notes: https://www.history.com/news/the-john-wilkes-booth-mummy-that-toured-america https://www.annmarieackermann.com/mysterious-fate-boston-corbett/ https://theamericanscholar.org/the-man-who-shot-the-man-who-shot-lincoln/ did john wilkes booth survive Music: Dexter Britain, The Tea Party http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/ Chris Zabriskie, Undercover Vampire Policeman http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/ Kevin MacLeod, Impromptu I-III http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/ Coldnoise, Fragments, Chance to Noice http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Coldnoise/ Alex Mason & The Minor Emotion, Silent Park Inside Your Soul, Only http://freemusicarchive.org/music/AlexMasonTheMinor_Emotion/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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