The mystery of John Wilkes Booth's dentist.
For many years there has been much speculation over the identity of the dentist of President Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Some have considered Dr. William Merrill (1833-1918), a rather prominent Washington, D.C. dentist, as the man who restored two of Booth's teeth with gold a few days before the assassination. Who was the mysterious Dr. Merrill and what evidence do we have that he ever treated Booth?
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Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, Dental School, University of Maryland, Baltimore 21201-1504, USA.
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