New Eyewitness Account?

[Steve]

Steve, I was searching to make sure all sources had the same date, and I found one that has a year different from what Reck says.

The web page at

http://chicagohistoryresources.org/wetwi...htm#briggs

has the same publication, month, and day, but says the year was 1877.

"Briggs, Emily Edson. "Assassination Night." Philadelphia Weekly Times, 29 December 1877."

The article was published in 1877, not 1878. Unfortunately, Newspapers.com doesn't have images of the 8-page weekly version of The Times until September 1878. It does have the 4-page daily versions of The Times and I can see advertisements for Briggs' upcoming "Assassination Night" article in the late December 1877 editions of the paper. There's also an advertisement with a list of previously printed articles of the same series of Weekly Times articles that Briggs' appeared in Feb. 1878 issues of the daily version of the paper.

All the other newspaper databases that I usually consult don't have any images of The Times - Genealogybank, Chronicling America, Old Fulton Postcards, etc.