Booth escape route north

[L Verge]

"In truth, both theories stem from the words of Booth. In his diary he writes he broke his leg jumping, and to people on the escape route he states his horse fell on him. We'll never know which one it really was. Both have evidence to support them and, in any book on the subject, they both deserve equal press. It's like how we don't know the exact route Booth and Herold took from T.B. to Dr. Mudd's. We explain the two possibilities and then we just pick one to follow. To me, the same should be done when writing about Booth's broken leg."

Dave - I agree completely about what you say above. My contention since about 2003 when Mike first told me about his theory of how the break occurred has been that the broken leg has very little bearing on the history of the assassination. I have been yelled at for saying that because others feel that Dr. Mudd would never have been involved or that Booth and Herold would have ridden right to the Potomac.

What I find a bit depressing is that a good portion of the people who read American Brutus or hear Mike lecture only remember that he has "gone against history" by "proving" that the broken leg was a result of his horse falling. Mike spent many years doing very thorough research, and I feel that his work should be remembered for that more than for the one theory that his horse fell on him.