New Eyewitness Account?

[Steve]

(06-28-2018 07:20 PM)L Verge Wrote:  

(06-28-2018 05:41 PM)Steve Wrote:  I checked the date of the Charles Hamlin's paper according to the table of contents of the linked book is 07 March 1894, so just short of 30 years after the fact. Memory can get distorted over the decades. Did any other source claim that Mary had any blood on her clothes?

What do you think of Hamlin's identification of Flood as the man who climbed up to the box? If Hamlin's memory is accurate, then Flood approached him with his card the day after the assassination claiming to be the first into the box. According to Clara Harris's affidavit the first person into the box was a surgeon (Taft?, although Harris thought he was in the Navy) followed by a soldier (presumably Capt. Bedee) and Bedee's account said the man who preceded him in climbing into the box shouted to box that he was a physician. Were William Flood and Silas Owen going around with their accounts of being the first men into the box just a day after the assassination?

Are we now leaving Dr. Leale out of equation as being first into the box?

I was only referring to the people climbing into the box from below, which didn't include Leale, but you're right, Flood's account also contradicts Leale's as well because Flood also claimed to have taken Lincoln off his chair by himself while Leale said it was him and two other gentlemen.

I was just wondering about Flood supposedly introducing himself to Hamlin the day after as one of the persons climbing into the box that night.