By Allen D. Spiegel, Ph.D., M.P.H. and Merrill S. Spiegel, J.D.
At 2:00 PM on April 27, 1865, [Surgeon General Joseph K.] Barnes and Assistant Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Janvier Woodward conducted a postmortem examination of the body. A letter to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton reported their autopsy findings:
"Left leg had a fracture of the fibula 3 inches above the ankle joint . . cause of death was a gun-shot wound in the neck--the ball entering just behind the sterno-cleido muscle--2-1/2 inches above the clavicle--passing through the bony bridge of fourth and fifth cervical vertebrae--severing the spinal cord and passing out through the body of the sterno-ceido of right side--3 inches above the clavicle. Paralysis of the entire body was immediate, and all the horrors of consciousness of suffering and death must have been present to the assassin during the two hours he lingered."
Excerpted from: "J. Wilkes Booth as a Patient, as a Corpse to be Identified and Diagnosed as a Monomaniac", The Journal of Civil War Medicine, Vol. 5, No. 3
1 comments:
who order John Parker or anyone to guard abe at Ford theatre?
John parker left post went star saloon next ford theatre.
why did Stanton /andrew john have feud/impeachment standoff?
Lamon claim told Abe not go out at nite not go to the Theatre?
Ward Hill Lamon left his post suppsedly Richmond Va.(abe sign card 4-11-1865)
Sen John Parker Hale ask Lincoln for abe sign card 4-14-1865 leave u.s?
Lincoln assassinated 4-14-1865 why didn't he come back d.c find badmen?
Gen Grant supposedly claim want visit family not Ford Theatre.
Robt Lincoln hung out friends & later stay home not went parents?
Robt knew Lucy Lambert Hale did she be booth spy tell stuff&Lucy/ booth National Hotel?
Lucy Lambert Hale Lucy met John Wilkes Booth at one of his performances in Washington, D.C
., when he played the character Charles De Moor in “The Robbers” (1862 or 1863).
She presented him with a bouquet. Lucy in booth wallet with 5 other women ?
why did _ tell people threw booth over boat in river but bury in D.C later gave him family?
why did Finis L Bates write book on Booth /bought mummy tour u.s even exam by doc;s?
in the book Finish found people that back up Bates book that might be Booth ?
why is Booth and Jesse James John Frank Dalton (March 8, 1848(?) – August 15, 1951) buried in the same place ?
Where was Pinkerton - Where were army - where were Military &stanton protect Abe?
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