Clara Harris's Bloody Dress

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(11-27-2013 10:10 AM)J. Beckert Wrote:  I agree, it's strange and I don't know what to make of it. At one point however, to explain all the "sorry stains" on her, she had to be in contact with Lincoln or Rathbone. It's been said Lincoln was carried out on a shutter, so someone had to support his head. Maybe she was allowed to do this for a short time and used the flag to do so?

Maybe, just maybe, Miss Keene seized on the publicity value of having Lincoln's blood on her dress and she went back to the empty theater box, put her hands in the remaining blood, and then wiped her bloody hands on her dress.
Didn't she show off her bloody dress onstage at several of her theater appearances over the next few weeks???