New Eyewitness Account?

[Steve]

Roger, to answer your earlier question, Keene would had to have given the interview to the Herald reporter in Washington DC before she left. Newspaper accounts of her and Hawk's arrest said it occurred early morning on Monday the 17th. So I figure they would've had to leave Washington sometime on Sunday the 16th in either the early evening or late afternoon. (If anybody out there has copies of the relevant train schedules, please share so we can narrow down the range!) This gibes with Hawk's account where they couldn't leave Washington for "a day or two".


I also have grave doubts about the reliability of the Gournay family tradition, especially since Jeannie herself didn't actually see her father go with Keene to the box and the family tradition of what happened in the box when Thomas got there conflicts with the known facts, i.e. the head wound not being discovered until Lincoln's head was on Keene's lap (instead of Leale finding it before Keane would've arrived), the spurious flag story, Thomas Gournay carrying the body to Peterson House, etc. That, along with the discrediting of William J. Ferguson's account of escorting Keene and the lack of any other witness (or Keene herself) saying she went with somebody else to the box, make me think she went to the box with the water by herself.