Heel Imprint in Stage Covering

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(02-13-2022 06:59 PM)Anita Wrote:  No photo of the heel print but another account.

https://lincolnconspirators.com/the-trial/may-16-1865/

Visit to Ford’s Theatre
At 9:30 am, the court convened unofficially at Ford’s Theatre in order to examine the scene of the crime firsthand. The group, which consisted of the commissioners, the Judge Advocate and his assistants, and members of the press, took a detailed look at the environs of Ford’s both inside and out. Descriptive accounts of the inspection of Ford’s were published in the Evening Star and Washington Chronicle newspapers.

“The box used by Mr. Lincoln bears the same picture of Washington at its front, and a couple of flags are draped over the box as then, but not the Treasury Guard’s flag, which caught Booth’s spur on that occasion. The green baize stage-cloth has a foot long rent at the point where Booth struck the stage; but whether made by him in his fall is not known.

I love this actual testimony during the trial. The theater gives its own testimony