escort to Springfield

[Steve]

Here's a link to an article in the April 15, 1967 San Diego Evening Tribune about McCamly and the opera glasses, along with a press release by Congressman Lionel Van Deeran from May 2, 1967:

https://archive.org/details/curiosrelics...49/page/n3

Interestingly, at the time the National Park Service concurred with Laurie's assessment that if the glasses are indeed authentic, they were probably Mary's.


As far as my own opinion on the opera glasses authenticity... I think the story about the glasses falling off Lincoln as he was transported to Peterson House is impossible. Lincoln's coat was removed as the doctors were searching for his wound and before Lincoln was moved the papers he had on his person were removed and given to a soldier to carry to Peterson House. Anything as bulky as opera glasses would've been removed before he was carried to Peterson House.