June 6, 2025 • 19 mins
In the early morning hours of April 15, 1865, Dr. Samuel Mudd had a man come to his home with a fractured fibula. Mudd set the man’s injury. That man was John Wilkes Booth - the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln. Mudd would claim not to have known Booth - or have been a part of the assassination plot. He said he was just a doctor doing his job. But was that true? This is the story of Dr. Samuel Mudd.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Mudd
Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Drmudd4wiki.jpg
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