What was Booth wearing?

[RJNorton]

Hi Karin. I am at fault here regarding the term "calf length boots." When I wrote that web page 17 years ago I had just retired and didn't have the array of assassination books I have today. At that time I probably owned less than 10 assassination books. I probably (not sure, though) got that from Jim Bishop's book, and since those days, I have learned not to rely so heavily on what Mr. Bishop says. It was the book (along with Twenty Days) I had used with my 8th graders when we studied the assassination in class. I have since updated the web page to read "riding boots."

Even though it's been 17 years I am still pretty consistently making corrections on the site. The other day I got a letter from a gentleman who felt I was misleading people by saying the funeral train "arrived in Albany." This is on my funeral train page. I checked and he was right, so I changed the wording to, "The train arrived in Rensselaer at 10:55 P.M., and from there the casket was ferried across the Hudson River to Albany."

The other day I changed the wording of one sentence on my last Lincoln photo page. I had written, "Wilson was a portrait painter who had accompanied Lincoln to Gardner's studio to provide a model for a portrait Wilson painted afterwards." A friend wrote and said it would be clearer if I changed it to, "Wilson was a portrait painter who had accompanied Lincoln to Gardner's studio so Lincoln could provide a model for a portrait Wilson painted afterwards." I agreed and made the change.

Mostly I have forgotten what I wrote 17 years ago; when changes are suggested I almost always have to look up what needs to be changed.