Coffee with a Conspirator

[RJNorton]

Joe, I talked to Joe Beckert (BoothBuff) this morning. He's on vacation and is having problems logging on. He'll be back on the site whenever he can make the connection.

He said it was Dr. George Brainard Todd who said that the card was indeed taken into the box by an usher (probably a reference to Forbes). If this be true, then Lincoln could have put it in his pocket, and it could then have fallen out as he was being carried across the street to the Petersen House. It could then have been tucked in with the papers Bedee picked up in the street and gave to Stanton. W. Emerson Reck writes, regarding these papers, they "are still a mystery unsolved." One guess is that they are tucked away among thousands of other pieces of paper at the Library of Congress.

Joe, it's a long shot, but it's at least possible (in theory, anyway), that the card exists and will someday be discovered.