Figure 21.—This sketch, made by Hermann Faber immediately after the removal of President Lincoln's body from the Petersen house in which he died, was approved for accuracy by Surgeon General Barnes.
poster is illustrated with a familiar pose of Booth, but the picture of David E. Herold is that of a schoolboy, while the one supposed to represent John H. Surratt is of some other individual entirely. Later, after the conspirators had been captured, tried, and executed, the War Department revised the photographic part of the poster, changing the Booth picture to another pose, the picture of Herold to one made after his capture, and the Surratt picture to one of Surratt made after his capture and return to the United States.[1] The poster exhibited at the Medical Museum is one of the revised edition (fig. 22).
Still another contact of the Museum with the Lincoln tragedy was the examination of the cervical vertebrae and section of the spinal cord of the assassin, John Wilkes Booth. These specimens were removed from the body officially identified as that of Booth after it was brought to Washington on 29 April 1865, and show the course of a conoidal bullet through the third, fourth,
- ↑ Roscoe, Theodore: The Web of Conspiracy. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1959. pp. 334. 335.
