Broken Fibula - Again!

[Laurie Verge]

Just had a very nice lunch with Dr. Terry Alford, whose book, Fortune's Fool (a Booth biography), should go to publication in the spring next year. I asked his opinion on the broken leg, and he gave an answer very similar to Jonathan's and also said that he feels the horse story may be just another aspect of Dr. Mudd distorting history to save his own hide - which is certainly understandable considering what Mudd knew he was facing.

Terry teased me with some more things that his research has turned up. He is a very thorough researcher and well-respected in the field. I'm betting that Fortune's Fool is going to set the Booth field on its ear with some new information. I told him that I was giving him one more year to get that book finished and expected him to be a speaker at the Surratt conference in 2014 -- or I will slap him silly. I made the same threat to Sidney Blumenthal several months ago. His reply was that, if his book wasn't ready by 2014, he would slap himself silly!