One more post, on one broken leg.

[RJNorton]

Joe, I had this in my files. I think it comes from what Ferguson told Tanner at the Petersen House.

"I then heard the report of the pistol and saw Mrs. Lincoln catch him around the neck. I saw him throw up his right arm at the same time I saw Booth with his hand in his side and pull a knife and move between Mrs. Lincoln and a lady in the same box. He put his hands in the cushion of the box and threw his feet right over. As he jumped over he pulled part of a state flag off and had part of it under his feet when he fell on the stage. The very moment he struck he exclaimed "Sic Semper Tyrannis." As he came across the stage facing me he looked me right up in the face and it alarmed me and I pulled the lady who was with me down behind the banister. I looked right down at him and he stopped as he said, “I have done it” and shook the knife."