Frank Ford Letter

[Steve]

Despite what Frank Ford said in his letter, I still think it's more likely Booth bored the hole. If the theater managment had bored the hole, either they or the worker(s) who bored the hole would've likely said so. In fact, the head carpenter at Ford's Theatre testified during the John Surratt trial that he had no knowledge of who bored the hole. Presumably Booth would need something like that to make sure the President or anybody in his party were focused on the show. His chances of success would've been much higher if he could sneak right up behind the President unnoticed.