I'm Angela O'Dell and you are listening to Real Cool History for Kids, a podcast show featuring history stories told from a biblical worldview.

Welcome to an adventure.

Hey, kids, this is episode five of Real Cool History for Kids.

This episode and episode four, which was aired two weeks ago, are a two-part story. So if you haven't listened to episode four,

please go do so right now before listening to this episode. Let's begin by recapping the first part of this story. His name was Mud, part one. In that episode, I told you the story of a man who became known as one of the co-conspirators of the assassin John Wilkes Booth, the actor who shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln just five days after the end of the terrible American Civil War.

Booth and his co-conspirators were extremely angry because of the South's loss in that war.

They had supported the South's cause and wanted the war to continue, believing that the

South would swing the victory in their favor.

Dr. Mud had set Booth's leg, which he had broken in his escape from the theater,

where he had shot President Lincoln.

When Booth was caught and his scheme was uncovered,

anyone who had anything to do with him or was involved in any way was put on trial.

Several of those people were given the death sentence and hung, including Mary Sarat, the first

woman in history to be given the death penalty by the United States government.

Although it wasn't proven beyond a shadow of doubt that Dr. Samuel Mudd had been involved

in the scheme to kill the president, because he had been previously acquainted with Booth,

people did not believe him or trust him.

This is where the expression, name is mud comes from. It means that someone's reputation has been ruined beyond repair.

After the war, and especially after the assassination, the whole country was in an uproar,

and emotions were running really high.

When the assassin was caught and the gang of conspirators was rounded up, several of them were sentenced to death.

Although the evidence was circumstantial at best, Dr. Mud was sentenced to life in prison for his part, well, his supposed part,

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