thomas hartman, a confederate agent, said he was surprised with his resourcefulness in heidi booth and some were ready to hand them off as a hot potato to the next person. he met his fate and garrett's barn. booth is buried in washington in 1965 -- 1865. the body was turned over to the family and was taken to baltimore and identified by joseph, his youngest brother. mrs. booth was there but would not go and look at his son -- her son's remains. the funeral home in baltimore was right across the street from the home in baltimore theaters. there were a number of factors who identified them to their satisfaction. henry clay ford -- harry clay ford, who managed the theater said that is booth, no doubt about it. his future bride asked him, how do you know that is him he said i know him better than i know you. one look told me that was john wilkes booth. a friend of booth said if that is really john, look at the boot. he and i went ice skating and there should be holes in it were skates were affixed. once you looked at the boots, you could see the holes where they screwded in ice skates to t

thomas hartman, a confederate agent, said he was surprised with his resourcefulness in heidi booth and some were ready to hand them off as a hot potato to the next person. he met his fate and garrett's barn. booth is buried in washington in 1965 -- 1865. the body was turned over to the family and was taken to baltimore and identified by joseph, his youngest brother. mrs. booth was there but would not go and look at his son -- her son's remains. the funeral home in baltimore was right across the street from the home in baltimore theaters. there were a number of factors who identified them to their satisfaction. henry clay ford -- harry clay ford, who managed the theater said that is booth, no doubt about it. his future bride asked him, how do you know that is him he said i know him better than i know you. one look told me that was john wilkes booth. a friend of booth said if that is really john, look at the boot. he and i went ice skating and there should be holes in it were skates were affixed. once you looked at the boots, you could see the holes where they screwded in ice skates to t

thomas hartman, a confederate agent, said he was surprised with his resourcefulness in assisting booth and some were willing to handle booth or hand him off as a hot potato to the next person. he met his fate in garrett's barn in fredericksburg. booth is buried in washington in 1865. the body was turned over to the family and was taken to baltimore and identified by joseph, his youngest brother. mrs. booth was there but would not go and look at her son's remains. the funeral home in baltimore was right across the street from the home in baltimore theaters. there were a number of factors -- there were a number of actors who identified them to their satisfaction. henry clay ford -- harry clay ford, who managed the theater, said that is booth, no doubt about it. his future bride asked him, how do you know that is him? he said, i know him better than i know you. one look told me that was john wilkes booth. a friend of booth said if that is really john, look at the boot. he and i went ice skating and there should be holes in it were skates were affixed. sure enough, once you looked at the b

here's thomas hartman -- hart benton, he is not the famous painter from missouri. he is a conversely from missouri for 30 years that nobody remembers -- he was a congressman from missouri. edward evert. here he is. something of a child prodigy. he was a professor of greek at harvard at age 21. he became the governor of massachusetts. he seceded -- succeeded daniel webster as secretary of state, but basically a forgotten person. henricks is kind of interesting. this is his portrait. he was vice president under cleveland. but he only lived for 9 months once he took the office. he died in office. a year later, he appeared on a bank note. this is it. it is called the tombstone note. you cans see why. his portrait looks like it is on a tombstone. john knox long forgotten, a comptroller of the currency from 1872, to 1884. so much for thayer's admonition about posterity judging on the fame of people. this person is a complete unknown to probably 99,999 people out of 100,000. william marcy was a senator-governor of new york. he appears on a very high denomination $1000 bil