Autopsy of John Wilkes Booth, aboard the U.S.S. Montauk, Washington, D.C., April 27, 1865, artist's impression, detail

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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, October 2, 2013
Depicted ContentLincoln's Assassination
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engraving
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Post-Mortem examination of Booth's body aboard the monitor "Montauk."
Source citation
Harper's Weekly Magazine, May 13, 1865, p. 293.
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Cropped from the larger image, also available here
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