Generally laying a penny on a headstone indicates, simply. that someone paid a visit. Also to the military aspect, penny = visitor, nickel = boot camp friends, dime = served together, and a quarter indicates the visitor was there when the serviceman/woman died.

This is another one on my bucket list. OMG, I hate it when you drive hundreds of miles and the cemetery is closed. So nice that they let you in.

Edwin Booth is buried next to his first wife in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge MA.

The theme music for each conspirator was awesome!!😂

According to the story, he said that Booth newspaper fell into the hands of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, as well as photographs of the body, which disappeared within a few days, just as his diary also lacked leaves. It is likely that the shadow of the plot was with Stanton.

Thank you for going through all that trouble of going to these graves and risking dehydration to bring this interesting video. Bravo!

Being a history buff, you have a full buffet in life.

Great video, Thanks for putting that all together

Thank you for going to all of those cemeteries you are appreciated I didn't know all of those interesting facts

I know I'm a few years late. But good content. Coins on grave sights usually are a symbol of respect. It's been a tradition for centuries with Jewish culture, except they use stones as a symbols of permanent memory, a stone lasts forever. Just watch the closing scene in Shindler's List. The real person and their counter part, the actor placing stones on Shindler's grave in the Jewish Garden of Hero's in Israel. Shindler wasn't a Jew, but he was a hero to the Jew's he saved. Back to Booth. If that's his grave then the penny represents the face on the coin. Go Figure.

I love History. Thanks for the video.

TAKE THE GPS OUTSIDE YOUR CAR I ENJOYED YOUR VIDEO. I CAN'T SEE TOO WELL SO I TYPE IN CAPS. GOOD JOB.

Shout out from Montreal Canada where I recently discovered John Wilkes Booth hung out with his confederate colleagues in 1864-65. This was a great video and a lot of trouble for you!!!

Yes, Arnold and O'Loughlin are buried there as well. The cemetery was closed due to the storm and I had to promise to got to Booth's grave and right back. Didn't have the opportunity to visit the other graves. I'll make return trip though. Thanks for watching and commenting!

That was great! Well done.

Did you know that John Wilkes Booth was distantly related to Cherie Booth (Mrs Tony Blair)?

His full name was Hugh Louis Paine, the man Herold supposedly led to Seward's was Lewis Thornton Powell, who was Paine's third cousin. Herold and Booth hid out on the farm of a man named Jones for a week. Oddly, that man wasn't charged with aiding and abetting the conspirators.

I personally tip my hat to you dear sir.History is truly a search to find for yourself in ways for you to decide at your own speed. "Funny how people into history take as long as needed to find answers of things are not as first thought"-Steele

intresting video. looks like hard work...

Great choice of song from “Assassins!” 🎶 “Why did you do it, Johnny?” 🎶..... I toured with that musical for years!! Great video. Thanks for posting. 🤖🤓

Traditionally, coins left on a grave marker is a way to let family member's of the deceased that you have visited and paid your respect. The denomination of the coin indicates the relationship you had with the deceased. Military version goes as follows; Penney, no relationship, just visiting. Nickle, went to basic training with deceased. Dime, served in a unit with individual. Quarter, was present when they died.

Seems since Booth there are a lot more like him these days.

History Teacher, liked your video. Check out "Tudor Hall" or as Edwin called it "The Farm" where most of the Booth family was born, and lived as children, when they weren't punching out the other little kids in their Baltimore neighborhood.

Loved it great job well done!

That stone with Penny's was booths grave

Thanks for the efforts

It may have already been mentioned, but Edwin Booth is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. There is another Booth brother who’s buried in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts.

Wasn't Lincoln's body kept in a casket below the floor of his mausoleum? I think that it was there for quite a few years before being entombed on the main floor.

Only Mary Surratt's priest would know the truth, but there is that pesky "seal of the confessional" that kept him from letting the truth come out!

Edwin win Booth is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Don Thomas is right. Thousands of books and even more productions and none have accounted for the FBI's detailed, forensic analysis of Booth's diary done in 1977. Don Thomas author/investigator.

He is right it was not a heroic thing. If he wanted to accomplish something he should have done it in 1860.

I was told John Wilkes Booth is not buried there because the man they shot was not John Wilkes Booth. John Wilkes Booth was known for having beautiful white flawless skin (he was gorgeous! Most photos don't show his beauty). The man shot had reddish hair and freckles and that was not the real John Wilkes Booth) Actress Kathy Bates great grandfather knew John Wilkes Booth in his older years and wrote a book about him in the early 1900's.

He buried in Oklahoma, great-grandfather knew him and visit him when he was in Enid Oklahoma. I been told. Great granddaddy hated Lincoln.

Initial published news reports accused the Catholic Church in Rome as being responsible for Lincoln's death , partly due to the fact that Booth had attended a Catholic school in Maryland, along with Mary Surratt's son John, who ALSO had been involved in the conspiracy. John Surratt successfully escaped to Canada and then made his way to Rome, where he served in the Papal army. Federal agents pursued him and he escaped again to Egypt, eventually returning to the U.S. after the statute of limitations had run out on his suspected involvement. Afterwords, he did travel the country giving accounts of his adventures to fascinated audiences. One theory is that the huge amount of Union Army soldiers who replaced the long dead protestant Yankees from New England were German and Irish, thus, bringing a large population of Catholics into the country who could carpetbag and take over the formerly protestant owned southern institutions. Lincoln had been AGAINST such ideas and wanted to go EASY on the south, even letting former soldiers and leaders of the Confederacy hold office in the new south. Lincoln cared more about the peaceful reunited states than anything else. The conspirators DID have an attachment to the Confederate government , as Powell had been a member of Mosby's Rangers and a cipher machine was found in the hotel room of conspirator George Azerodt. It is a FACT that during the war, Lincoln ordered Union cavalry officer Ulrich Dahlgren to raid Richmond and KILL President davis and as many Confederate leaders as possible. Confederate cavalry under Jeb Stuart crushed the raid and Dahlgren's official orders were found on his body. Those orders have been verified as authentic. This action by Lincoln may have caused his own death....out of retaliation. One clue is the cryptic comment about Lincoln made by General Lee. Just after Appomattox Lee praised Lincoln saying : " I have surrendered as much to Lincoln's kindness as I have to Grant's artillery" Days later, upon hearing the news of Lincoln's murder Lee's tone was different. He said that the murder of a President was " unprecedented in our history". Hmmmm. A cool response with possibly a slight reference to the INTENTION of Lincoln to kill Davis FIRST. Booth was a fool who hurt the south greatly by killing Lincoln. He did NOT LISTEN as he was standing with a dagger just feet away from President Lincoln during his second inaugural address,where Lincoln stated : " with malice towards none and charity for all". Booth only paid attention to Lincoln's public remark right after Lee's surrender where he said that he now wanted to give blacks the right to vote. That remark set Booth off to murder Lincoln, instead of kidnapping him. For some strange reason, authorities have refused investigators requests to compare DNA from the surviving section of Booth's spine in the Smithsonian to DNA from Edwin Booth's body buried in Massachusetts. Many believe that the man shot in Garrett's barn was NOT Booth,but, former Confederate officer and prisoner of war, James W. Boyd.......SAME initials as Booth and a prisoner personally released by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton only weeks before Lincoln's killing. One Confederate soldier had told the Union cavalry that it was NOT Booth in the barn with Herold, that it was Boyd. Booth's own doctor came to the deck of the Union gunboat , " The Montauk", in Washington to inspect the dead body from Garrett's farm. The doctor REFUSED to confirm that it was Booth !!! he said the dead man had red hair and Booth's was black.....he said the dead man had freckles and Booth had NONE....he said that he had recently removed a mole from Booth's back and that the dead body had no such mark from the removal !!!! Why would Booth HANG AROUND Garrett's farm for 3 whole days, waiting to be caught, when his previous behavior was to move constantly from place to place ?? People forget that Booth was an ACTOR....someone who used makeup and disguises on stage !!! He may have met Boyd at that farm and then LEFT, as Boyd stayed behind . Some people accuse Stanton of being involved in Lincoln's murder.....he was a rabid " Radical Republican" who wanted to severely PUNISH the South, in return for all the dead Union soldiers ! Stanton secretly possessed Booth's diary and did not admit to having it for a long time. When the diary was finally inspected, it had 18 pages missing !!! Just like Nixon's missing 18 minutes from the Watergate tapes !!....where some believe Nixon discussed the assassination of JFK. Most weird of all is the following story. One of the richest and most powerful men in all U.S. history was John D. Rockefeller, who parlayed his early investments in the newly discovered oil of Pennsylvania into a a huge enterprise : Standard Oil. The man who held those oil stocks FIRST,but, was impatient and sold them was JOHN WILKES BOOTH !!!! HE would have been the giant oil baron of Esso and Exxon !!!.....but, NO.....he had to go NUTS instead !!!

That was very cool...thanks for posting

To the day, Payne was born 100 years before this old man.

Booth was certain that he’d be hailed as a hero for what he did. He was very shocked and saddened to see the newspapers demonizing him.

booth was nothing , and truly never will be worth nothing.

Waiting for the GPS to kick in? Good thing you didn't take a laxative, lol! 😎

As strange as it may sound I would have liked to see Mary’s entire grave and not just the headstone. Thumbs up anyway!

Booth did escape. He lived in Granbury Texas for a time, and I believe died in either KS or MO. He acted under a different name.

you probably know this ? but it's an interesting tid bit. when in the south among the graves of civil war soldiers. the graves that have the pointed grave stones are the confederate graves. reason being is they did not want union troops using the headstones as seats.

Anytime I have any doubts about my intelligence, I know I can just come to a page like this, read the comments, and be instantly reassured that I'm a lot smarter than some!

I always wondered why they wrote Mrs. Surratt on her headstone instead of Mary Surratt? Does anyone know?

Good choice of music😂

It’s Not Conspiracy...there are detailed accounts of army officers and the doctor who performed the autopsy who clearly stated it was not Booth!

Thanks for posting. Enjoyed it.

John Wilkes Booth's older brother, Edwin Booth is buried at a cemetery in Middlesex County up here in Massachusetts....

Model Assassin!....that was pretty funny. Lol

Why are the dolls placed on or near the graves of most of the conspirators? I've noticed that with the first three. They look like little Union soldiers.

Even though I view Lincoln as a tyrant, as did my forefathers, I also feel that John Wilkes Booth did as much harm to the south as any northern general.

They all had "ring around the collar"...

Initially the other conspirators were buried beside the gallows where they were hanged directly after their execution.

Do you know what I like the fictional character booth from bones is related to john Wilkes booth

I have been to Ford's Theater and the House that Lincoln Died. Want to travel to Dr. Mudd's home, museum and the Surratt Boarding house o in Maryland. Would like to see Booths grave and Mary Surratt's grave someday.This piece of History, interest me.

It's the unmarked stone in the corner with the pennies on it.

I had heard she housed the conspirators

You can kill a person, but you cannot kill the dream and the vision.

Half hand me down vessels and I'm still on my feet.

Mary knew the plan and was def a southern sympethiser. Why would payne go to check on her otherwise😂she got what she had coming

Subscribed, great video and commentary.

What about the grave of George Atzerodt? He was reportedly buried under the name Gottlieb Taubert in St. Paul's Cemetery in Baltimore. I visited the cemetery recently and could not locate the headstone.

Could you not get in the cemetry at night and use ground radar to see if anyone is buried??

Read the book Chasing Lincoln”s Killer

I always thought a penny on a headstone indicates they paid their dues. I could be wrong.

I wonder did you record or live stream? I ask because u could've used your phone 4 g.p.s. Last question bro why oh why would u just get in the car and drive a few hours without a a call first ??? Good job on the video frfr

Is this a private cemetery? Why were you only allowed to go to the Booth plot?

We need more videos i enjoy your video

Edwin Booth is buried in , Mount Auburn Cemetery , Boston Massachusetts.

J.W.Booth supposed body was never formly identified,no photos Nothing,the soldiers whom murdered the man in the barn agreed it was not Booth on the ground so where does that leave us?

That lil song about Booth sounded like Neil Patrick Harris singing it haha. Also, Lewis Powell fascinates me.

Brilliant video Mikey!

If you look beyond home plate of the Washington Nationals stadium, you'll see Fort McNair, which was called the Washington Arsenal. The old courthouse is still there. That's where the conspirators were tried. The tennis courts are where the four were hung and originally buried.

Lewis Paynes Body is in Washington cemetery but I am not sure where

David Herold grew up in DC, had several sisters, he was foolish to get involved with Booth

how come its just a little plain marker with only "Mrs Surratt" written on it? no dates , eulogy etc?

Would have loved to have had you for a history teacher. ♡

I luv visiting cemeteries too

My understanding is the unmarked marker with the pennies is the grave of John Booth.

Edwin Booth saved the president's son. People just love remembering the worse in people

Down with tyrants! ROFL. I agree.

I had always read that After Booth was shot at the barn, his body was transported to an ironclad and moved to some prison where he was burried under a floor somewhere. Assuming this to be the real story, where exactly is he hiding out? Or does anyone know more they can relate?? I would have thought photos would have been made in this high profile case to show he was indeed actually dead.

The coins are to symbolize that someone has visited the grave.

Can you enter the current tennis court at the location of the gallows where the execution took place.

Your sat nav looked like a Garmin.

The Booth family wanted the education. The cemetery refused.

They put pennies on graves to believe it would "enrichen the body".

Anyone else turn the music off?

Edwin Booth was bury at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

I believe Mary Surratt was very much involved.

That was Booths grave

I have never been to a graveyard where they told me I could only go to a certain grave. That is just ridiculous. Go back on a weekend when other people are also visiting. Don't ask them anything just go in.

Hot Teacher!!

Edwin Booth is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.

Edwin Booth was buried next to his first wife at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

FYI, Google Maps is leaps and bounds better than any GPS like Garmin. When your GPS could not find a satellite, I guarantee you that Google Maps would have save you a lot of time. FYI.

I love cemeteries

They were all buried right there where were hanged right in front of the wall by the gallows, no grave markers no separate cemeteries. You can even see the open graves in the pictures, they had no fancy funeral ceremonies for these conspirators.

No one knows for sure where JWB is buried. There is no headstone in the family plot that bears his name. The stone the people place pennies on is the foot stone of his sister's grave, but many mistakenly believe it's his unmarked headstone. Also, on Powell's headstone I couldn't help but notice they misspelled the word "Cavalry." "Calvary" is where Jesus died.