Dr. Samuel Mudd.
Doctor Samuel Mudd
Samuel Mudd was the medical doctor who splinted Booth's broken foot and made him a pair of crutches. John Wilkes Booth was an actor and Lincoln's assassin.
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John Wilkes Booth's leg was treated by Dr. Samuel Mudd after Booth sustained a fracture while escaping the scene of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Dr. Mudd, who was unaware of Booth's identity or his crime at the time, provided medical assistance and set the leg. This act later led to Mudd being implicated in Booth's conspiracy and he was subsequently imprisoned for his involvement.
Dr. Samuel Mudd set, splinted, and bandaged John Wilkes Booth's broken leg, and he made him a pair of crutches, as well.
John Wilkes Booth broke his leg two inches above his left ankle upon jumping to the stage floor after shooting Lincoln. During his escape in Maryland a Southern sympathizer Dr. Samuel Mudd set the leg into a splint. Mudd was later convicted for aiding Booth and sentenced to a prison term in a penitentiary in the Florida Keyes. Later US President Andrew Johnson would pardon him.
Dr. Richard Mudd wouldn't have spent years in prison for setting his leg.
Dr. Samuel Mudd treated and set John Wilkes Booth's broken leg.
Although it is an historical fact that Dr. Mudd knew John Wilkes Booth, he did not know that Booth had shot the President. In an era of no TV, radio, and satellites news travelled much slower in 1865. When he found out the next day he insisted that Booth leave his house at once. He was later convicted as part of the conspiracy and spent many years in prison.
I believe the doctor who treated John Wilkes Booth's wounds after the assassination of President Lincoln had the last name Mudd.
Dr. Mudd