Assasination relics: Clothing, chairs, death-scene stuff, and other macabre items

[Steve]

Laurie, Thanks for the information on Taltavull and his family. I looked at local DC records and Taltavull stayed in Washington the whole time and didn't go to Memphis as Withers said in the interview.

Withers' interview's account of Spangler also contradicts his court testimony where he testified that he did not see Spangler at all that night:

https://archive.org/stream/trialofallege...8/mode/2up

Rich, whatever exaggerations Withers gave in his newspaper accounts, he was clearly describing one of the American flags decorating the box, not Treasury Guard flag in the center above the image of Washington. Why would his orchestra use a Treasury Guard flag or Taltavull, who was in the Marines even have one? Withers also doesn't explain how he came into possession of Taltavull's flag if the story is true.


https://www.fords.org/lincolns-assassina...colns-box/

The flag on the pole on the right of the image was the other Treasury Guard flag that's currently held by the Connecticut Historical Society, but the other three flags, if they still exist, whereabouts haven't been verified yet.