Lincoln's Opera Glasses

[RJNorton]

Seems a bit weird to me to need/use opera glasses from the presidential box to watch a comedy. It's not really that far away from the stage. When you sit that close anyway you might use it to closely watch a ballerinas' foot technique or a pianists' fingers. But I wouldn't even bring them to a comedy unless I knew sat somewhere in the last row under the roof.

In A. Lincoln: His Last 24 Hours W. Emerson Reck talks about papers falling from Lincoln's pockets as he was carried across the street. He mentions the papers were picked up by Capt. Edwin E. Bedee. No mention of opera glasses in the street. No mention of a man named Capt. James McCamly.