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He broke just one leg.

After shooting the President, Booth leaped over the ledge of and out of the State Box (a room inside the theater, with front opening view of the stage.), and snagged the spur of one of his boots on a flag posted along the parameter of the opening, and as he was aiming his land for the stage, the snag broke his landing to a fall.

Some Historians speculate he broke his leg, later in the evening, when he fell from his horse.

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