What Was The Role of David Herold

[Laurie Verge]

If we assume that George Atzerodt was not the brightest bulb in the chandelier on a good day and that he had been drinking on the night of April 14 to bolster his courage, I think it safe to say that he had very few thoughts going on in his mind other than what the heck to do next and how to extricate himself from the whole mess.

If I were to put myself in his shoes, I would have walked out of that hotel room, left everything in there (for lack of some way to carry it or dispose of it), locked the door behind me, and gotten the heck out of Dodge.