Joseph Hazleton - First Hand Account of the Assassination

[RJNorton]

(05-02-2014 01:39 PM)Rsmyth Wrote:  Hi Roger, Didn't Mrs. Todd also say someone swung across the stage on a rope and rescued JWB?

(05-02-2014 01:58 PM)BettyO Wrote:  Tarzan perhaps?

Sorry for the bombast....yes, I think that is the one where someone threw a rope to JWB and pulled him offstage or something to that effect.

Yes, she said the following:

"When Booth's spur caught and threw him to the stage he broke his leg in a terrible way, so that the bone actually protruded through his trousers and smeared the stage with blood. Naturally he couldn't move. Laura Keen leaned over and patted his head. Then to my amazement I saw a rope swing out, evidently thrown by some confederates, lasso him and whisk him into the wings. That was the last time I ever saw John Wilkes Booth."