Your personal choice of "most tragic" character in the assassination story

[Claudine]

(09-10-2012 03:12 PM)Linda Anderson Wrote:  This is from Witness to an Era: The Life and Photographs of Alexander Gardner by D. Mark Katz.

"Like almost everyone, Gardner was apparently fascinated with Lewis Paine [Powell]. Not only did Gardner take at least ten photographs of him on possibly two occasions, but he also took the trouble of copyrighting six of these ten on May 17, 1865. Of all the photographs of the conspirators and their execution, these were the only ones he copyrighted."

Here is a link to a 2012 article on Gardner's photos of Powell.

http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/extended/arc...r_gardner/

A nice article. The author is "wondering what might have gone on in the ship that day". In any case someone had done Powells hair. It looks like someone greased (used hair oil) it. I don't think they took off the handcuffs from Powell to make it on his own. Weird. Again.