Extra Credit Questions

[RJNorton]

A gimlet was found in Booth's trunk at the National Hotel.

However, Frank Ford wrote, "… I say again and unequivocally that John Wilkes Booth did not bore the hole in the door leading to the box President Lincoln occupied the night of his assassination. … The hole was bored by my father, Harry Clay Ford, or rather on his orders, and was bored for the very simple reason it would allow the guard, one Parker, easy opportunity whenever he so desired to look into the box rather than to open the inner door to check on the presidential party. … My father would always ‘blow his top,’ to use today’s slang, whenever he read or heard of this historical absurdity … and would often finish his vehemence by saying, ‘John Booth had too much to do that day other than to go around boring holes in theatre doors."

Bill, personally I can go either way on this.