Last eye witness on "I have a secret"

[LincolnToddFan]

(05-26-2015 11:51 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  His account is in "We Saw Lincoln Shot", and more about him you find in Tom Bogar's "Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination". (Toia, if you haven't read it - a must-read!!) Joseph Hazelton was the program boy who was eleven on April 14. He was the longest survivor of the theater crew and pursued an acting career, personally encouraged by JWB. In the early 20th century he performed in 34 silent films ("forgettable shorts"). He died on Oct.9, 1936 and is buried in Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery. To his death he claimed JWB wasn't killed in the barn but escaped to South America.

Okay, since I am almost in walking distance to that cemetery, I must make it my assignment to go there and photograph his gravesite so that I can share it here at the Forum!

I already have "100 Witnesses" it is MESMERIZING...haunting even. Some of the stories toward the end are just silly, like the one where Lincoln regains consciousness as they are carrying him across 10th St. and says "Where are we going?" Yeah, right. That is one of the later "embellishments" that came up in the later eyewitness reports.

Bogar's "Backstage" is definitely on my reading list, thanks Eva!