This flag was draped outside Lincoln's theater box the night he was shot by John Wilkes at Ford's Theatre. "Someone inside the box grabbed the flag from outside and used it to cradle Lincoln's head until they could carry him from Ford's Theatre to Peterson house." Jeannie Gourlay, actress in "Our American Cousin", which was playing that night, and daughter of Thomas Gourlay, kept the flag in her possession until she died in 1924.This flag was draped outside Lincoln's theater box the night he was shot by John Wilkes at Ford's Theatre. "Someone inside the box grabbed the flag from outside and used it to cradle Lincoln's head until they could carry him from Ford's Theatre to Peterson house." Jeannie Gourlay, actress in "Our American Cousin", which was playing that night, and daughter of Thomas Gourlay, kept the flag in her possession until she died in 1924.
This flag was draped outside Lincoln's theater box the night he was shot by John Wilkes at Ford's Theatre. "Someone inside the box grabbed the flag from outside and used it to cradle Lincoln's head until they could carry him from Ford's Theatre to Peterson house." Jeannie Gourlay, actress in "Our American Cousin", which was playing that night, and daughter of Thomas Gourlay, kept the flag in her possession until she died in 1924.