Booth as seen in SC

[Rhatkinson]

As some may know, I am from South Carolina. I was curious to see how the assassination played in SC newspapers. There's a great website called newspapers.com that have thousands of papers archived from as far back a the 18th century. Unfortunately, the only two papers from SC date back only to the 1880's.

However, I was able to find some interesting articles related to the assassination:

1. This is an article detailing the release of the film "The Prisoner of Shark Island" about Dr. Mudd in the 1920's. To say the article is sympathetic to Mudd is an understatement. He was called "a martyr to his countrymen's frenzy and hate."
   

2. An article from the 1883 collapse of Ford's when it was used as a government office building. Jim Garrett told me that the presidential box was boarded up but not removed when the government turned the theater into an office. Does anyone have any information about this?
   

3. An article on actor EA Emerson's trunk being located in the 1920's which contained his recollections of the assassination (Emerson was acting in the play.) It mentions a program from the play with blood in the corner of it that Emerson noted could have been Lincoln's or Rathbone's. Does anyone know of the present location of this relic?
   

4. An interview with Henry Watterson, who was a newspaper editor and member of Congress from Kentucky who served in the CSA army. It is very interesting in that Watterson had utter contempt for Booth's action. I am sure this was some of the same sentiments that Booth read about while hidden in the pine thicket that upset him so badly. This article was from 1887 and it is interesting that sentiment was so much against Lincoln's killer only 22 years later.
   

5. Finally, a picture of Robert Lincoln on his 82nd birthday. I just found it interesting.
   

Heath