New Eyewitness Account?

[RJNorton]

Another point that Reck touches on has to do with the blood on Laura Keene's dress. Reck notes that several accounts maintained that Lincoln's wound did very little bleeding. So could the blood on Keene's dress have come from Rathbone's wound? One person who thought so was a close friend of Dr. Taft's --> Mrs. John B. Wright. Mrs. Wright said she doubted Laura Keene was ever in the box because Dr. Taft told her all the details of what went on in the box, but he never mentioned Laura Keene being there. Mrs. Wright felt Laura Keene "could easily have got blood in a variety of ways and places, for Major Rathbone was so terribly slashed by Booth's knife in the box that his blood was smeared all over the woodwork and made a trail out of the theatre."