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[RJNorton]

I am still riding the fence on this. Years ago I had several communications with Gloria Swift on a variety of topics. I have a ton of respect for her opinions on Lincoln-related material.

"But park ranger Gloria Swift, the former curator of the theater’s Lincoln artifacts, said that case is thought to have belonged to Lincoln’s wife, Mary Todd, whose opera glasses were also found in the box and are now in private hands.

She said she was skeptical of the McCamly story, noting that Lincoln had been examined by doctors in the theater and doubted that his opera glasses would still have been on his person as he was carried across the street.

It doesn’t mean it didn’t happen,” she said. But “they could have been anyone’s glasses."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/ope...9b5c8e0c16