Assassination Trivia

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Roger - Notwithstanding your swell 1957 book, it would seem highly improbable that there was any public knowledge of Booth's broken leg on Monday, April 17th. John Lloyd was not arrested and questioned until Tuesday, April 18th, and it took several rounds of interrogations by Lt. Lovett and Detectives Cottingham and Lloyd (no relation to John) before John confessed and mentioned Booth's broken leg. Dr. Mudd was not questioned until the 18th as well. While Lovett suspected that the "stranger" treated by Mudd for a broken leg was Booth, news of the injury did not reach Washington until Thursday, April 20, when Lovett returned and informed Col. Wells of his suspicions. In turn, Wells informed Secretary of War Stanton, who ordered both Wells and Lovett to Bryantown. Off the top of my head, I do not recall how or when the news of Booth's broken leg was made public, but it would seem unlikely that it would have been before April 20, 1865. Perhaps Lincoln Lore was the Wikipedia of its day?