JWB photo - yes or no?

[STS Lincolnite]

After finally finding time to take a close look at this (and actually post them), I will say my opinion is a confident: NO. I don’t believe the image in question is John Wilkes Booth.

My thoughts:

The nose: the bridge of the nose looks wrong to me. And more importantly the tip of the nose. Booth had a very distinctive nose that is inconsistent with what we see in the young man and very consistent amongst other confirmed Booth photos.

The chin: While both have somewhat prominent chins, Booth’s to me, looks more square and elongated side to side that does the other

The eyes: Booth has less “eyelid distance” between his eyes and eyebrows. This could be caused by someone actively raising their eyebrows, but that would cause a forehead wrinkling effect that does not look to be present in the image in question. Also, even more subjectively, in most all of the pictures I have seen of Booth, there seems to be a certain “intensity” of the look in his eyes that I don’t see in the image in question.

The mouth: As Rob mentioned, it is a bit hard to judge this one because most photos of Booth show him wearing a mustache. Although the image Rob posted of Booth without a mustache is from a different angle and is not especially close, he still seems to look a bit different around the mouth that the young man in the questionable image.

While there are some other reasons I don't think it's Booth, these are the ones that really stuck out for me.

I have enjoyed reading other people’s thoughts!