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Thank you. His name was Mud, Dr. Samuel Mud, and of the eight defendants in the military trial of co-conspirators in Lincoln's assassination.

He was one of only three who was sentenced to life

in prison rather than execution, on the charges of conspiracy to murder the president, and also

of aiding and abetting John Wilkes Booth. Yet in the late 1990s, a bill was introduced to Congress

called the Samuel Mud Relief Act,

proposing to exonerate the doctor. Another effort at the same time to put the doctor on a

commemorative stamp demonstrates how memory of the man has changed in the intervening years.

Certainly John Wilkes Booth and David Harold

came to Dr. Samuel Mud in Maryland after the assassination of Lincoln. And certainly, Mud

treated Booth's broken leg and allowed the two to stay with him for a couple days. But as

Mud became something of a cause-celeb

during the next century, it was argued that he had only held firm to his Hippocratic oath,

that as a physician he'd had no choice but to treat Booth as a patient. These efforts to

rehabilitate his character were convincing to many, including President's

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