Breaking a leg

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(12-31-1969 11:46 PM)J. Beckert Wrote:  ...Would Booth be able to compose himself by then to appear as unassuming as he did? If he did break his leg in the jump, he managed to run on it for a short distance, mount his horse and get to the bridge, but I think the swelling inside the boot would start immediately and may have been throbbing by the time he got to the Navy Yard. Am I medically off base?

Depends. Again it is a case of adrenaline and alcohol. Given the circumstances he may not have realized the extent of the injury until well past the Navy Bridge. He probably felt the injury by the time he got to Cobb, but being an actor, was able to overcome whatever distress he felt in order to appear unassuming.

Assuming he was unassuming.

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(02-15-2013 05:35 PM)Linda Anderson Wrote:  Perhaps Booth told Jones that he broke his leg when his horse fell but he wanted Jones to spread the same story of him breaking it in the jump from the stage that he (Booth) wrote in his diary.

I doubt Jones would perpetuate a non-material fiction for Booth's sake in a book where he is recounting the events as he knew them and, in fact, incriminating himself to a degree twenty years after the crime.