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  1. 03-Jul-2012, 08:37 PM #1
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    Interesting. I think they know more about the events of when Lincoln got shot today than ever before. I remembered being told at Fords theatre some 40 years ago or more that John Wilkes Booth caught his spurs of his boots on the presidential picture frame of George Washington as he tried to jump over the box down to the stage. Thus breaking his leg. This time, it was the drapes that caught his foot only after a soldier he stabbed in the arm after shooting Lincoln tried to stop him as he jumped over the railing. Causing Booth to fall to the stage off balance thus breaking his leg.

    So in 40 years, I hear two versions. Which is the correct one?
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  • 04-Jul-2012, 03:20 PM #2
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    I read "Killing Lincoln" by Bill O'Reilly a couple of months ago, which regardless on your opinion of O'Reilly was a good book. It reads more like a historical novel than just a standard biography of Booth. Lots of interesting things about JWB and that time of his life.
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  • 05-Jul-2012, 02:05 AM #3
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    When Booth went to the theatre, he went across the street for a couple of hard drinks at a local bar. To which the bartender told Booth as he was leaving, "Booth, you are not half the actor your father was". To which Booth answers..."Aha. But after tonight I will be famous."
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