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Body Bags: The Autopsy of John Wilkes Booth

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BODY BAGS with Joseph Scott Morgan

This episode of Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan is a look at the death and autopsy of John Wilkes Booth.

Booth shot Abraham Lincoln from behind around 10:15 p.m. on April 14, 1865. He died the next morning, April 15, at 7:22 a.m. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack will uncover the track that Booth took as he tried to escape, and finally being shot himself.

The farmhouse of Dr. Samuel Mudd, where both John Wilkes Booth stopped to have his broken leg set after shooting President Abraham Lincoln, is shown near Beantown, current day Waldorf, Md., March 1, 1961. Booth and accomplice David Herold showed up at Mudd’s farmhouse at 4:00 a.m. on April 15, 1865, eight hours after Booth shot Lincoln. Booth and Herold rested in the room behind the upper right window after Dr. Mudd set his broken leg. Dr. Mudd’s insistence that he did not recognize Booth failed to save him from conviction and ruin. (AP Photo)

Joseph Scott Morgan will make you feel like you witnessed the autopsy yourself as he explains, in great detail, the autopsy of John Wilkes Booth.

[Feature Photo: This is the Deringer pistol that was recovered from the state box at the Ford Theater and used by John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. (AP Photo/FBI)]