The Bloody Pillow Case

[Jim Garrett]

(04-24-2013 06:42 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Jim, do you know where the Kunhardts found the story (p. 97 of "Twenty Days") of William Petersen hurling one of the bloody pillows out the window? Joe first mentioned the story the other day. Unless I missed it, that story is not mentioned in Bain's book.

I don't think it is in "Lincoln's Last Battleground". I view Robert Bain's book as more of a family history that intersects the assassination. I would not doubt the account from "Twenty Days", the question is, did he go back out and retreive them? Rich and I have looked at the pictures of the coverlet in both "Twenty Days" and "Lincoln's Last Battleground" and to our eyes, they aren't the same. That's to not say that there could have been two coverlets on the bed. I think that is a very real possibility. April is a month with still very cold nights, (the other night it was down in the low 40s). It tough to document the coverlets. The pillows at the NPS have pretty good documentation.