Clara Harris's Bloody Dress

[RJNorton]

I am still on the fence on this. In an interview in 1878 Clara Harris stated, "No, that was a falsehood: Laura Keene did not enter the box from first to last. She might have been with the crowd who were trying to get in at the door, but only a very few were admitted, and she was not among the number." Certainly Clara was in the box and an eyewitness to the goings-on. I just cannot come up with a logical reason why she would deny Keene's presence if she were really there cradling the president's head.