Fly Through Historic Ford’s Theatre
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12-10-2019, 05:25 AM
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RE: Fly Through Historic Ford’s Theatre
I need to correct something I had posted earlier. When I first looked through Tim Good's We Saw Lincoln Shot: One Hundred Eyewitness Accounts I found two mentions of the word "shutter." But I have since looked again and found two more mentions of it. W.H. Taylor, who was in the dress circle, said, "On nearing the doorway we saw men approaching from the passage-way back of the box with the form of the President carried on an improvised stretcher - as it now seems to me a window shutter or something of that nature - and we stopped to let them pass." Also, Captain Oliver C. Gatch, also sitting in the dress circle, said, "A shutter was hastily secured as a stretcher..."
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