New Eyewitness Account?

[kerry]

(05-22-2018 03:46 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 10:38 PM)kerry Wrote:  Canavan, Kathryn. Lincoln's Final Hours: Conspiracy, Terror, and the Assassination of America's Greatest President (Kindle Locations 1456-1458). The University Press of Kentucky. Kindle Edition.

Kathy is a member here and has posted quite often. Her username is Lincoln Wonk. In addition to Kathy's, another book I would recommend is A. Lincoln: His Last 24 Hours by W. Emerson Reck. These books clear up most of the false stories that have been told over the years, and people like Loring and Wood are not even mentioned in either book.

That's cool, I didn't know she was a member. I read part of Reck's book - it was really good, but I haven't ordered it yet. I think it's possible someone like Wood was just overlooked in most accounts, but I do get the sense that Loring probably made up his story, along with many others. The Taft/Leale accounts are impossible to reconcile. The more I research, the more I realize how bad memory is. The amount of people carrying Lincoln and what Booth said remains impossible to figure out - like 20 credible witnesses have different answers. I think there's enough evidence that Laura Keene was there, but it is interesting that Harris insisted otherwise and Taft's sister said he never mentioned her presence. I think what is most likely is that both of them had their attention focused elsewhere and never registered her. "I Saw Lincoln Shot" is interesting for showing the divergences in people's memories.