Breaking a leg

[RJNorton]

(02-19-2013 07:56 PM)L Verge Wrote:  I still think that Wood had access to a statement made by someone in the theater - a statement that has now been lost or not yet located.

How complete is Tim Good's book? Is that essentially what we have? Then, if Jim and Laurie's estimate of 1500 patrons is correct, we have 1400 other folks who watched Booth cross the stage, and we do not have a record of their conversations with families, friends, neighbors, etc. We do not know whom these people talked to or what they said regarding how Booth moved on stage. Could any one (or more) of these 1400 folks have told the neighborhood that it looked like Booth injured himself when he hit the stage? I am sure there must have been a lot of talk that never made it into the newspapers, evidence, or courtroom.

P.S. Long ago, and I cannot remember where I read this, but at least one author feels the numbers in Ford's that night have been embellished. This person, and please forgive my aging brain as I do not recall the source, said he felt the actual attendance that night was more like 1000.