MUDD, DR. SAMUEL A.

WHORM ALPHABETICAL FILE

Jonathon, John L. [Merrill, MI]

WHORM SUBJECT FILES

JL001 casefiles 520222, 520868, 546228

PU casefile 537219

Updated: 06/28/2000 Most recent opening: 6/15/00

Case# Researcher Topic Pages Restricted

F00-100 Thelen, Stella Mudd Dr. Samuel A. Mudd 94 0

Includes correspondence involving President’s Carter and Reagan, their advisers, Mudd’s descendants, and the general public, mostly from the from the WHORM subject file category JL001 (Amnesty-Clemency-Pardons). In 1865, Dr. Mudd set the broken leg of John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln’s assassin who was a fugitive at the time. Because of this, Mudd was convicted of being a participant in the conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln. He was pardoned by the President in 1868, but his descendants wanted him declared totally innocent of wrongdoing.