New Eyewitness Account?

[kerry]

I think it was Rathbone's blood, but that Keene may not have realized that.

One thing I think is hilarious in a morbid way is how all the Lincoln relics over time become stained with Lincoln's blood. I think by the time Alexander Williamson's descendants parted with his shawl, they claimed it was stained with his blood from the theater. Williamson never made such a claim. I don't know if it was purely to make money or if exaggeration just creeps in.

ETA: I read a book on women's health from 1855 (to see what kind of advice they were giving), and they mention doing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on premature babies. So it seems like Leale could have done this in 1865.

ETA again: I know this must have been discussed to death somewhere, but if Booth was also after Grant, what was with the single-shot derringer? I read somewhere he planned to take Grant out with a knife. That seems incredibly risky. Maybe he just didn't really care, and he was just going to go as far as he could, but it seems he planned to get away alive. It seems he owns other guns he could have used, and where did he get the gun in the barn? From the friend he met up with? I always assumed he had realized Grant wasn't coming, which seems to be true, and I guess he planned to jump before a struggle ensued, with the knife as backup. But it seems it took him a minute to jump.