Post Reply 
Fly Through Historic Ford’s Theatre
12-10-2019, 05:25 AM
Post: #23
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..."
Find all posts by this user
Quote this message in a reply
Post Reply 


Messages In This Thread
RE: Fly Through Historic Ford’s Theatre - RJNorton - 12-10-2019 05:25 AM

Forum Jump:


User(s) browsing this thread: 6 Guest(s)