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During the 1930's Otto Eisenschiml, a former chemist-turned amateur historian, presented a theory in which the [[Lincoln Assassination]] was carried out by the highest levels of government. Booth - according to his theory - was not the man shot in a tobacco barn on the Garrett farm near Bowling Green, Virginia on April 26, 1865; it was James William Boyd. Eisenschiml claimed Stanton was embarrassed by the wrong man being shot and fearful of having the public know Booth had escaped, so he decided that Boyd's body should be paraded as Booth before being buried in an unmarked grave. ''The Lincoln Conspiracy'' (1977) by Charles E. Sellier and David Balsiger goes into detail about the Eisenschiml theory and their own views of the assassination and cover-up of Booth's escape, his hiding in Japan, and death in Enid, Oklahoma. ''The Curse of Cain: The Untold Story of John Wilkes Booth'' (1998) by Theodore J. Nottingham repeats the claim.
During the 1930's Otto Eisenschiml, a former chemist-turned amateur historian, presented a theory in which the [[Lincoln Assassination]] was carried out by the highest levels of government. Booth - according to his theory - was not the man shot in a tobacco barn on the Garrett farm near Bowling Green, Virginia on April 26, 1865; it was James William Boyd. Eisenschiml claimed Stanton was embarrassed by the wrong man being shot and fearful of having the public know Booth had escaped, so he decided that Boyd's body should be paraded as Booth before being buried in an unmarked grave. ''The Lincoln Conspiracy'' (1977) by Charles E. Sellier and David Balsiger goes into detail about the Eisenschiml theory and their own views of the assassination and cover-up of Booth's escape, his hiding in Japan, and death in Enid, Oklahoma. ''The Curse of Cain: The Untold Story of John Wilkes Booth'' (1998) by Theodore J. Nottingham repeats the claim.
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