Correcting History

[J. Beckert]

(01-01-2013 10:09 PM)Craig Hipkins Wrote:  

(01-01-2013 10:00 PM)J. Beckert Wrote:  

(01-01-2013 11:11 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Also, if JWB entered the box through door 8, not door 7, there was no door to open...right? Wasn't the door to Box 8 left open?

I think that's correct, Roger. Although I don't think even if the door was closed, it would've mattered much. One thing I'm curious about was the lighting. I've read that darkening the theater before a performance was a 20th. century innovation. Could Ford's have been lit up the whole time?

Joe, I believe you are correct. Didn't Booth want to recruit Spangler for the express purpose of dimming the gas lights? Or am I mistaken?

Craig

I though it was Samuel Chester that Booth tried to recruit for killing the gas lights, but that was for the kidnapping plot, if I'm not mistaken. I'm sure the conspirator's would have wanted total darkness for that attempt, but I'm still wondering what the lighting at Ford's would have been like on April 14th.