New Eyewitness Account?

[RJNorton]

(05-23-2018 06:25 AM)AussieMick Wrote:  

(05-22-2018 12:29 PM)kerry Wrote:  ...........
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.

I suggest that any description of the scene where Lincoln is lying down in the box which has a reference to Laura Keene holding his head in her lap must be treated (in toto) with the utmost suspicion.

I just cannot picture him flat on his back and her coming into the box, pushing past the doctors, kneeling down (or sitting down on the floor maybe? or cross legged!? ) and somehow lifting his head onto her lap. And what then? Did she stroke his hair? How do you terminate the process of holding a dying man's head on your lap? Do you take the head off and let it bump gently on the floor, stand up in a lady like way and move away ?

Michael, there is a side of me that sure wants to agree with what you say. But if it didn't happen this way, how does one explain what Seaton Munroe said?