Why was Booth admitted into the presidential box?

[LincolnToddFan]

(04-23-2015 05:04 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  I wonder if the missing dispatch could have been among the papers that dropped from the president's pockets as he was carried to the Petersen House. Captain Edwin E. Bedee picked up the papers and delivered them to Edwin Stanton the next morning. As far as I know what Stanton did with the papers is unknown.

Hi Roger!

This is honestly the first I have EVER read that items fell from dying AL's pockets onto Tenth Street as he was being carried to Petersen's. I always thought his pockets had been emptied inside the boarding house!