Wilkes Booth Came To Washington

[STS Lincolnite]

As far as the year of Withers' statement this is something that Richard Sloan might know or have a reference to. He has done quite a bit of research on Withers.

In regards to Kittie Brink, my Great Great Grand Aunt met and talked with her in the early nineteen hundreds about John Mathews. At that time she said Kittie was senile and would fade in and out. So, depending on when she was interviewed, I would suspect she is a bit of a grab bag... accurate about some things and not so much about others but hard to tell which is which. If she said the same thing in more than one account that would probably indicate more consistent lucidity and more accuracy in so far as what she thought was the truth (ie what her husband told her).