Booth lived across the street from the MM White coffin warehouse* (435 Penn) at the National hotel
I’ve done lots of research on that block over the years
http://mmwhitedc.blogspot.com/2015/02/destructive-fire-mm-white.html
The family story is that the White kids heard about shooting and stood outside the Petersen house where Lincoln died and saw him taken out on Apr 15- that would be John C who was 15 and Frank was 14
Would Lincoln have survived being shot today? here
The Night Abraham Lincoln Was Assassinated
What happened on that fateful Good Friday evening
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** the block is gone now it’s the National Art museum and the mall