Did JWB visit Mary's boarding house after the assassination?

[Pamela]

(02-26-2015 12:17 PM)Susan Higginbotham Wrote:  

(02-26-2015 09:49 AM)L Verge Wrote:  

(02-26-2015 09:38 AM)Pamela Wrote:  

(02-26-2015 05:38 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(02-25-2015 08:23 PM)L Verge Wrote:  She had served her purpose earlier in the day.

Laurie, this is probably the single biggest reason why I personally believe Weichmann was most likely telling the truth regarding the 9:00 P.M. visitor being Booth. It just makes sense to me that he would check that she had been successful prior to his proceeding on to Ford's.

(02-25-2015 11:47 PM)Susan Higginbotham Wrote:  I think Richards' memory might have been playing tricks with him in 1898--

In 1885 Richards also made the claim that he was in Ford's Theatre at the time Lincoln was shot. Richards said he chased after Booth into the alley and questioned the black boy who had been holding Booth's horse. I believe the evidence is pretty overwhelming that Burroughs was white, but Richards' claim of Burroughs being black was accepted by a small number of assassination authors. Does anyone know if 1885 was the earliest time Richards claimed to be at Ford's? Did he say he was there in earlier accounts?

Maybe both accounts are right. Peanuts could have been a light enough skinned mulatto to pass for white on occasion.

I've addressed my thoughts on this earlier, Pamela, before you became a member. The most telling evidence that Peanuts was white is the fact that he is not labeled as "colrd" in the trial transcripts. That was the practice of the times back then.

Peanuts was also invited to visit bars with some of the crew at Ford's. Colored folk of those days would not have been allowed in. I was raised in segregated Southern Maryland and around mulattoes and Wesorts (a unique blend of Caucasian, Negroid, and American Indian DNA and culture) all my life. Mixed race was/is not hard to detect if one is used to what to look for.

Didn't Booth himself drink at the bar with Peanuts at some point? Can't imagine him doing so with someone of mixed race.

Possibilities?--Richards saw Peanuts in the dark so poor visibility. Who wrote down Richard's account? Someone made an assumption because blacks usually held horses?