Clara Harris's Bloody Dress

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I have heard Dr. Houmes talk about the mouth-to-mouth issue, so I hope he chimes in here. As far as the Laura Keene issue, I still have reservations about her being in the box based on pure female logic. First, as I stated a long time ago, she was really over-stepping social bounds of that time to have the gumption to enter the presidential box and ask to cradle his head - especially when physicians were attempting to resuscitate Lincoln.

Second, Mrs. Lincoln's and Miss Harris's hoop skirts were taking up enough room in that limited space without Laura inserting herself, sitting on the floor (thus taking up more space and making people move around her), and performing no earthly assistance. I just can't imagine that it happened.