Killing Lincoln

[Jim Garrett]

(02-15-2013 11:46 AM)Gene C Wrote:  Did President Lincoln have his coat off at the theater as shown in the photo in the US News article mentioned above?

AL was wearing his customer made Brooks Bros. overcoat. He hung it up before sitting down in the rocking chair. At some point, he got up and put the overcoat back on and was wearing the coat when he was shot. Today much of the left shoulder of the coat is missing, having been cut up into small swatches by either Alphonse Donn or his family for bloody relics.

Ford's was heated by seven or eight stoves throughout the building. It was not a very efficient heating system. It was a somewhat chilly evening and I'm guessing that looking at the locations of the stoves, the box may have been cold.