The Spur Question

[AussieMick]

A similar thought occurred to me ... how does a piece of material manage to break off a spur. I guess he could have snagged the spur in the cloth and desperately wrenched it ... but it all seems difficult to imagine. And , lets face it, there would have been something like 500 pairs of eyes glued to the scene (despite what was happening in the box) ... and yet few (if anyone) saw Booth pulling or struggling with the flag. Perhaps the spur was flimsily attached to his boot and it came off immediately on leaping from the box. I would have thought though that if theres one thing about a spur, it is normally very very firmly attached.