Robert Gray
Sergeant Major
- Joined
- Jul 24, 2012
Another image.Negative of the middle section:
It looks like someone might have tried to erase the chair in the negative (bottom left) from the print.
Right and left. Lincoln occupied the one on the right.Box seats on right?
Missed this from last year- it sure helps make sense of Booth's leg-breaking jump. And how chilling, too. It was all right there. This stuff always gets to me.
That jump was never proven to be a leg or ankle breaker, it made for good press at the time and has become a bit of legend since then. Whatever else Booth was, he was quite athletic and physically resilient, according to period accounts. In any event no one came up with the torn curtain as a memento; and there were plenty of personal mementos taken from the scene of less significance. And Booth apparently was not at all slowed in mounting on his horse and riding vigorously away -- actions requiring pressed weight on the stirrups. Also, the wanted posters out of Washington never mentioned a hurt leg or limp, something that would have been on a wanted poster. Some claim it was an incident shortly after he crossed over into Maryland that damaged his leg.
Oh I don't know. You had me until the athletic thing- Booth was a lady's man disinclined to personal effort. It wasn't an active life in the way that evolves into any remarkable athletic ability.
I've known people to break a bone in their ankle from lower jumps and even having put weight on their foot when it was asleep (they just got out of their boot last week). And athleticism wouldn't play a role in whether he would have broken a bone or not. How he landed would determine the injury much more than athleticism would.That jump was never proven to be a leg or ankle breaker, it made for good press at the time and has become a bit of legend since then. Whatever else Booth was, he was quite athletic and physically resilient, according to period accounts. In any event no one came up with the torn curtain as a memento; and there were plenty of personal mementos taken from the scene of less significance. And Booth apparently was not at all slowed in mounting on his horse and riding vigorously away -- actions requiring pressed weight on the stirrups. Also, the wanted posters out of Washington never mentioned a hurt leg or limp, something that would have been on a wanted poster. Some claim it was an incident shortly after he crossed over into Maryland that damaged his leg.
I've known people to break a bone in their ankle from lower jumps and even having put weight on their foot when it was asleep (they just got out of their boot last week). And athleticism wouldn't play a role in whether he would have broken a bone or not. How he landed would determine the injury much more than athleticism would.