New Eyewitness Account?

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(06-26-2018 04:06 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Laurie, I did not mean to question the existence of a circuitous route. I do believe that there was one. My questions have to do with the accuracy of Gourlay family lore (Jeannie's claims regarding her father's actions, especially her assertion that he was one of the men who carried Lincoln to the Petersen House).

I knew you were not questioning routes that Laura Keene could have taken to get to the Presidential Box. I was just using my useless knowledge once again to show one way that it could have been done.

FindaGrave has a new look and updated bios. Jeannie Gourlay's site is here https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2588...-struthers and includes a photo of Jeannie in later years that I had not seen before. The bio section does follow the Thomas Gourlay theme and includes him maybe putting the spurious flag now in the possession of the Pike County Historical Society under Lincoln's head.

If so, and there is blood on the flag, it would have to have been placed on top of Miss Keene's skirts. So, that would seem to diminish the amount of blood that was supposedly all over the actress. The bio also claims that Thomas Gourlay was one of those who bore the President's body and that the flag was used in transport.