Instructor_hilliard's List: Dr. Mudd

• Dr. Mudd—no crime known to the law, and for which it is pretended to prosecute, can possibly have been committed.

  • Great site and argument is perfectly depicted.

• Mudd can not be tried of Treason--read on... - instructor_hilliard on 2010-08-11

• “fiction set in the past.

• confusion with history and historical fiction - instructor_hilliard on 2010-06-11

• Please keep in mind that this is Wikipedia and all sources should be looked at carefully. - instructor_hilliard on 2010-08-11

• Very informative, but biased site-- author of this site believes that Mudd is guilty. - instructor_hilliard on 2010-08-11

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   STEERS: Well, primarily the meetings with John Wilkes Booth, which were all arranged. There were three of them that we know of. There may have been more, but we can document three of them. But more importantly, when Booth first began to put his conspiracy together, after meeting with Arnold and O'Laughlen, the very next thing he did was go to Canada.

  • This cannot be proved-- no proof of this and Mudd never went to Canada.
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• meetings with John Wilkes Booth, which were all arranged.
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   STEERS: Well, primarily the meetings with John Wilkes Booth, which were all arranged. There were three of them that we know of. There may have been more, but we can document three of them. But more importantly, when Booth first began to put his conspiracy together, after meeting with Arnold and O'Laughlen, the very next thing he did was go to Canada.
• Well, primarily the meetings with John Wilkes Booth, which were all arranged. There were three of them that we know of. There may have been more, but we can document three of them.

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• This is an interesting interview-- Steers makes his case against Mudd and it is filled with gaps and misleading information. Steers gained his popularity from riding on the coat tails of my Grandfather Dr. Richard Mudd, wio believed in Sam Mudd's Innocence. By turning him into a villon in his historical fiction he made fame and fortune. - instructor_hilliard on 2010-08-11

• This confession was lost for a reason! It is believed that Atzerodt was illiterate and he was forced to give this information after he was arrested and the witch hunt was on! This lost confession, was lost for a reason. - instructor_hilliard on 2010-08-11

• • Boot brought up by Mudd first
• In the evidence adduced as to Mudd's subsequent conduct and statements, I need only call the attention of the Court to two points, for in it there is nothing else against him t lat. He did not tell, on Tuesday, that the boot was there, far down in the leg of which was found, by the officers, “J. Wilkes," written in pale ink. I answer, the boot was not found by his wife until several days after the assassin left, and was then found in sweeping under the bed. (Hardy.) We have every reason to suppose it was not found until after Tuesday, for the accused, on Friday, before a question was asked, or a word communicated to him, told of the boot himself, and had it produced, and said, in presence of his wife, it was found by her after the officers were there before. (Hardy.)