Ford restoration

[Jim Garrett]

The NPS is pretty confident that the chair is from Ford's Theater and they represent it as being in the Presidential box on the night of the assassination. I think concerns may be that those chairs may have been in all the boxes. I don't think there is any documentation, inventory or photographic evidence that shows the furniture in the other boxes. If my memory serves me (at 6:00 am), the person who was given/took the chair was involved in the renovation after the collapse. Did he embellish the significance of the chair. I think the chair did come from Ford's, but from inside the box, I can't say with any certainty.