O' Be Joyful
Sergeant Major
- Joined
- Mar 6, 2015
The McHales are of course completely unbiased.
Outside a Georgetown restaurant a group of crime writers is calling it a night when somebody brings up an old case one of them has been mining for years.
“Guilty!” declares James Swanson, author of “Manhunt” and other books about Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. “Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!”
In Swanson’s opinion, one person associated with the plot to kill the 16th president didn’t get the punishment he deserved: Samuel Mudd, the Charles County, Md., physician who treated John Wilkes Booth’s broken leg after the actor shot Lincoln.
Tried by a military commission with other accused conspirators, Mudd escaped being hanged by a single vote. Instead, he was sentenced to life in prison at Fort Jefferson, a 19th-century military outpost in Florida’s Dry Tortugas .
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Conor McHale, the doctor’s great-great-great-granson, and I are getting together for lunch at Wok and Roll in Chinatown. Miss the plaque on the building, and you’d never know this was once Mary Surratt’s boarding house, where the conspiracy against Lincoln was planned.
McHale, editor of the Dr. Samuel A. Mudd Society newsletter, is well versed in the life of his medical ancestor. Many of his relatives are, too, and a pair is joining us: Mary McHale, Mudd’s great-granddaughter, and Robert Summers, his great-.
http://publicpolicyseminars.com/2015/03/24/the-last-trail-of-a-lincoln-conspirator/
Outside a Georgetown restaurant a group of crime writers is calling it a night when somebody brings up an old case one of them has been mining for years.
“Guilty!” declares James Swanson, author of “Manhunt” and other books about Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. “Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!”
In Swanson’s opinion, one person associated with the plot to kill the 16th president didn’t get the punishment he deserved: Samuel Mudd, the Charles County, Md., physician who treated John Wilkes Booth’s broken leg after the actor shot Lincoln.
Tried by a military commission with other accused conspirators, Mudd escaped being hanged by a single vote. Instead, he was sentenced to life in prison at Fort Jefferson, a 19th-century military outpost in Florida’s Dry Tortugas .
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Conor McHale, the doctor’s great-great-great-granson, and I are getting together for lunch at Wok and Roll in Chinatown. Miss the plaque on the building, and you’d never know this was once Mary Surratt’s boarding house, where the conspiracy against Lincoln was planned.
McHale, editor of the Dr. Samuel A. Mudd Society newsletter, is well versed in the life of his medical ancestor. Many of his relatives are, too, and a pair is joining us: Mary McHale, Mudd’s great-granddaughter, and Robert Summers, his great-.
"If Booth hadn't broken his leg, nobody would have heard of Dr. Mudd," says Mary Mudd McHale, the doctor's great-granddaughter.
Her husband, John E. McHale, a retired FBI agent and former Prince George's County police chief, has examined the case in a book he's written, Dr. Samuel A. Mudd and the Lincoln Assassination. "You can't prove legally if he's innocent or guilty," he says. "They never proved his guilt. The guy should have been set free."
The Mudds of Maryland
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/20...154_1_samuel-mudd-fort-jefferson-dry-tortugas
Her husband, John E. McHale, a retired FBI agent and former Prince George's County police chief, has examined the case in a book he's written, Dr. Samuel A. Mudd and the Lincoln Assassination. "You can't prove legally if he's innocent or guilty," he says. "They never proved his guilt. The guy should have been set free."
The Mudds of Maryland
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/20...154_1_samuel-mudd-fort-jefferson-dry-tortugas