Booth's Day on April 14

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I'm not "seeing" what you're "seeing," Dennis. I think Joe Beckert once posted a good diagram from either the NPS or the restoration book.

I have not been to the box in years, but I don't think there is much space between doors 7 & 8. Booth entered door 8 behind Rathbone's settee, crossed behind Harris and MTL (maybe a distance of six feet?), and shot the President at close range. I think he then leaped over the railing to the right of Mrs. Lincoln. That's the only way I envision him striking the Washington litho or the flag on his way down.