Breaking a leg

[L Verge]

Do we discount the number of trained, medical doctors who have told me and others that the fibula is not a weight-bearing bone and that breaking it would still enable one - especially being driven by adrenaline - to run and mount a horse? Do we also discard the time that Booth continued a performance on stage after being stabbed with a sword?

I have a twelve-foot stepladder. Which one of you wants to volunteer to jump and break your fibula while wearing high boots and then see if you can run maybe fifty feet and mount a horse?

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It just dawned on me that the telegrams that Dave Taylor quoted earlier in this thread were all dated April 23. That was the day BEFORE Dr. Mudd was arrested. Someone had mentioned that Wood might have been told something by Mudd while in the Old Capitol. The dates rule that out. I still think that Wood had access to a statement made by someone in the theater - a statement that has now been lost or not yet located.