The hole In the door

[L Verge]

I still think that Clara confused the visit from Hanscombe, the journalist, as Booth doing a dry run. What she went through that night would be enough to jumble anyone's brain. How accurate the report in the newspaper was is up for debate also.

We need Tom Bogar to tell us where intermissions were written into the script. We also need to follow Booth's timeline. Betty, wasn't he meeting with Powell, Herold, and Atzerodt about 8 pm? What time was he in the saloon? Wasn't it shortly after 9:30?

People at the theatre put him there and climbing the steps at 10:10 pm. Several acquaintances reported that they saw him making his way to the box, but that he did not acknowledge their presence. Two army officers, whose chairs were blocking the aisle to the box, said he glared at them as they moved their chairs. Charles Forbes did not report Booth passing twice.

I think the idea of him casing the joint between the Lincolns' arrival about 8:30 and his path to the box at 10:10 is stretching the situation.