Breaking a leg

[L Verge]

Why would Wood even be asked to testify to the broken leg? It seems like an inconsequential thing that had nothing to do with what the military tribunal was interested in.

I still say that Booth wrote the sequence of events in his diary in the exact order in which they happened, and he places the broken leg immediately after shooting Lincoln. I also contend that, in the confusion of the first five minutes after the bullet was fired, no one would be noticing a limp from a minor fracture of a minor bone.

And finally, none of you horsemen have answered my question of a few days ago as to whether or not the reported injury to the mare's front quarter would cause her to pitch forward or roll to the left, or do both. In the latter case, could an expert rider like Booth extract his leg before having the horse roll on him?

P.S. I'm happy to learn that Mike is at least alluding to there being mention of the break at Ford's Theatre. I think one of the most frustrating things to me about the reaction to American Brutus (and Mike must feel this way also) is that everyone seems to focus only on that broken leg theory and not on all of the extreme details and worthwhile information that is in that encyclopedic work.