Presidential security

[RJNorton]

If true it would seem to conflict with Elizabeth Keckly's account of Mary blaming Parker for her husband's assassination. Why would she blame him if she gave him the money to go next door for a drink?

As far as the chair goes, William H. Crook wrote that the Ford's doorkeeper, John Buckingham, maintained that a chair had been placed in the passageway behind the State Box for Parker to sit in.