Breaking a leg

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(02-17-2013 10:12 AM)william l. richter Wrote:  Booth complained about his back while at Mudd's especiailly to Mrs Mudd. I always thought that he popped a disk in the jump becaue of his spur ripping the flag threw hip off balance. I find it hard to argue with Mike Kauffman's presentation in the 1990 Blue and Gray which has been replicated in his new web site.

What is the name of his new website? I'd love to check it out.

Doesn't Mr. Kauffman believe that Mudd was innocent and just a victim of circumstance? That was the conclusion I got from reading his book. Every element of Booth's relationship with Mudd or Mudd's behavior after the fact is presented in "American Brutus" with an excuse for Mudd's involvement as well as for his dishonesty.

If one starts with the conclusion that Mudd was innocent and lied to investigators only for the best reasons, then it makes sense to believe the horse-fall theory and to then build a rationale around it.

If you believe, as I do, that Mudd was a devious rebel agent who had perfected the art of deception and was very much involved with the conspiracy since his introduction to Booth, then the horse fall story is just another deceit concocted as a cover for his involvement with Booth the night of the assassination.