New Eyewitness Account?

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(04-24-2018 10:28 PM)Susan Higginbotham Wrote:  I found an ad in the April 22, 1865, Detroit Free Press from a bookseller who stated that he had on sale the latest Harper's Weekly "filled with illustrations of the fearful tragedy in Washington, including a very correct illustration of J. Wilkes Booth." So it seems quite possible that booksellers on the East Coast had Harper's Weekly on sale by April 21.

Excellent, Susan. Thanks. It supports what Steve reported and certainly helps explain how a newspaper dated April 29 could be cited in a letter dated April 21, and makes me a bit less skeptical.