DNA testing proves Lincoln assassin

The descendant of Abraham Lincoln is trying to conduct a DNA test of actor John Wilkes Booth's brother and the suspect was shot dead in 1865 to prove whether the killer really was shot or not.

John Wilkes Booth is an actor and supporter of the Southern Army during the civil war in the 19th century. Booth is the same person who shot the 16th President of the United States from behind when he was watching art performances. at the Ford Theater in Washington DC.

The assassination took place on April 14, 1865, just days after General Robert E Lee, the leader of the Southern Army, surrendered and the civil war was coming to an end.

After assassinating President Lincoln, Booth jumps on the runaway horse. But 12 days later, he was found hiding on a farm in northern Virginia. Later, Booth was besieged by the Alliance and shot and killed at the barn.

However, like the assassination of President John F Kennedy, no real culprit has been found yet , half a century after Lincoln's death. Another theory is that the man shot dead in the old barn is not Booth. Booth actually escaped and lived another 40 years with a fake name.

The man who was supposed to assassinate Lincoln was shot dead in the barn.

Therefore, the descendants of President Lincoln decided to test the hypothesis with DNA analysis technology. They wanted to unearth his brother's grave Booth, Edwin Booth, one of the successful Shakespeare actors in America at the time, to sample the analysis.

The results of Edwin's DNA analysis will be compared with the DNA analysis from the three vertebrae of the suspect shot in the old barn. The upper vertebrae are being stored at the US National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington as evidence for a historical case.

However, the excavation of Edwin's grave will not be easy and will probably become the latest in a war between the President's family and the assassin's family. In 1995, President Lincoln's relatives also refused to excavate the grave believed to be by John Wilkes Booth.

John Booth's tomb is an unmarked tomb in the cemetery at Green Mount Cemetery, in Baltimore, Maryland. A local judge also decided not to excavate the grave, partly because it would affect the tombs of three babies buried there.

A nephew of Booth named Joanne Hulme, 60, supported the Lincoln family's aspirations. She told the " Philadelphia Inquirer ": " I fully support the excavation of Edwin. Please lighten the truth and let people rest. The first story my mother ever told me is John. Wilkes Booth is not the one who was killed in the barn . "

The theory that the person shot dead in the 1865 barn is not Booth mentioned for the first time in a book published in 1907. The book argues, the person who was shot dead in a warehouse is actually a former one. South Vietnamese soldiers and at the same time a prisoner of war named James William Boyd and he had a killer-like appearance.

Meanwhile, the real killer had fled to Granbury, Texas and later moved to Enid, Oklahoma with the fake name John St Helen and David E George respectively. George committed suicide in 1903. While dying, he confessed that he was John Wilkes Booth.

In 1920, the body of "John St Helen" was dug up and put on display at a festival such as " The one who murdered President Lincoln ".