Fly Through Historic Ford’s Theatre

[Tom Bogar]

In terms of the question about time, as near as I have been able to determine, the shot occurred at 10:14, and within minutes soldiers were rushing into the theatre, with several of them beginning to clear the street in front of Ford's by 10:20, when the group began carrying Lincoln from the box on a (single) shutter. Perhaps--Laurie's favorite word --Tanner's or Leale's accounts are more specific, although Tanner wasn't called down (at Gen. Augur's request) until nearly midnight, I believe. According to at least one first-person account (sorry, I don't have time right now to dig through all my files for who), several shutters were stacked against the wall of the theatre outside the box (near the SW corner of the second level of the theatre).