The “rubber box” or did Laura Keene indeed held Lincoln’s head?

[Jim Garrett]

The Presidential box (7&8), when put together have an unusual shape, somewhat L shaped. The vestibule, or entry hall was made from space taken from box 7. It would be an extremely tight fit with 10 people in the box all at once, but if you include the vestibule as part of the box, the additional space makes it move conceiveable. Rich Smyth and I have gone over and over the issue of whether Thomas Gourlay and Laura Keene were in the box. We believe that Gourlay and Keene were in the box. If I remember correctly, Neither Keene nor Gourlay left a written record, however there were a number of credible accounts of them in the box.