One more post, on one broken leg.

[Eva Elisabeth]

Why should the guards have needed a spy hole to monitor the president in the box? The other side of the door was more important to watch (quod est demonstrandum...). So - why should Ford have drilled the hole? I could well imagine JWB did it. I just would like to know how much of the box he was able to see through the hole. I think if he did it, he probably wanted to visualize the exact scene (the "stage directions") and the position from where to shoot once more before he entered the box. So he could act without hesitating inside the box.