Dave Taylor / Davey Herold Question

[JMadonna]

(02-14-2014 11:23 AM)L Verge Wrote:  For the life of me, I cannot picture Herold ever becoming an assassin! There is a lot of difference between shooting birds and rabbits and killing a person. There is also a lot of difference between letting someone like Booth think that you could commit murder and actually doing it.

Yet everyone seems to think Atzerodt could be a killer when there is no evidence that he even shot birds. Atzerodt was a barfly who would pal with anyone buying the drinks, he was no killer even though Booth tried to bully him into it. Yet no one believes his story that when he refused to do the deed, Herold was assigned.

Whether Herold could have been induced to do the deed or not is not the question. The question was where was he during the assassination. IMO he was a lost dog looking for his master.