Assassination Trivia

[RJNorton]

Hi Bill. I do not know if this will answer you, but I wrote Ron Rietveld to see what he knows about the busts. His response was as follows:

"To answer your inquiry regarding the statues in the last photograph from the flesh in the multiple-lens photograph by Jeremiah Gurney, Jr. at New York City Hall [the Governor's Room], April 24, 1865--the two busts are of Daniel Webster on the left, and of Andrew Jackson on the right. The Chicago Historical Society possess a stereograph of the mourning draperies in the Governor's Room of New York City Hall, where Lincoln's body lay in state. The president's coffin has not yet arrived at the scene. But the bust of Daniel Webster can be seen very clearly in it, much better than the bust of Andrew Jackson, however."