New Eyewitness Account?

[Steve]

(12-14-2024 10:07 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Here is what Tom Bogar said:

"He (Tom Gourlay) led her through the stage left door, then left to an outside stairway up to the Fords’ apartment next door, through which they reached a reception room that connected back with the theatre’s dress circle, and then into the presidential box, from which Booth's wedged stick had by then been removed from inside."

Steve, I do not think I have ever seen a more detailed account than Tom's.

Looking at the map, I was just wondering where/what exactly the Fords' apartment was. The lounge is the level above the saloon. Is the hallway with the door to the stairs outside next to the lounge the "apartment"? (The map has the hallway containing the stairs going to the offices on the floor above.) Is the map wrong and it's part of the room labelled lounge on the map? Or is the office level above the apartment, with the hallway being considered part of the apartment?


On a tangentially related topic; because of this I was looking through all my William J. Ferguson and Gourlay family article clippings. In the William J. Ferguson articles, he always says Keene left him to go to box, not that he escorted to the box. As far as I can tell, he only begins to tell the story of him escorting Keene to the box in his 1930 book. The earliest article I have where Ferguson talks about the assassination is from 1909, I think. So that's at least two decades telling the story one way, until his book came out.

(edit I made before posting below)

I was going to ask why I hadn't picked up on that before, but when looking for the image of the 1909 article, it turns out that I had noticed it when I originally posted the article to forum six years ago:

https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussi...l#pid71770

I just don't remember it at all!