almost no one would know hairy hawk, billy witers. these were major names in the events of that night. so i started looking even closer to get a sense of who were these people. in some cases, their names were spelled wrong or the names were a missrepresentation. it's really difficult tracking down actors because the census records weren't always reflective of who they were. they also varied their birth dates a lot. i found that the actresses for every ten years that they would perform, they kept upping their birth date by about five years to continue to play younger roles. so i looked at these names. the more i found about their background, i kept looking for who they were and every account i read either followed booth out the back door to his death or lincoln carried out the front door to his death at the peterson house across the street. and no one seemed concerned with the 46 people who were still trapped in that theater with the soldiers rushing in with the crowd outside chanting burn the damn place down and the soldiers telling t