[johnfowles]

Originally Posted by Moose

According to a tiny snippet in August, 1970 Billboard - the hand was the result of an ill-fated Karate Chop. side of the hand where one would expect a Karate type injury to be.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=kikE...AND%22&f=false

Well that sure is some awesome software that Google Books is using!!
On the face of it by simply searching for "Lightfoot broken hand" it scanned the text of at least the one relevant issue of Billboard and found Moose's snippet of text then highlighted it
I initially had trouble finding it so for anybody else so challenged here is a screenshot of the snippet