New Eyewitness Account?

[Tom Bogar]

(05-14-2022 04:11 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  In the last article it says, "...Miss Keene had gone into the box via the stage entrance..."

What is the stage entrance to the State Box?

Roger, it was the stage left door. With the crowd blocking any chance of Keene reaching the box through the lobby stairs (down which Lincoln was later carried), she received the help of actor Tom Gourlay (see. 6 of my book) who was more familiar than Keene with the passages backstage. He led her through the stage left door, then left to an outside stairway up to the Fords’ apartment next door, through which they reached a reception room that connected back with the theatre’s dress circle, and then into the presidential box, from which Booth's wedged stick had by then been removed from inside.