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Medical kit used by Dr. Samuel Mudd at the time he treated the broken leg of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Though Mudd protested his innocence, a special military tribunal, convened after the Lincoln assassination, sentenced him to life in prison and sent him to the Dry Tortugas Islands in Florida. In 1867 there was an outbreak of yellow fever at the prison. When the prison doctor died, Mudd took over the position, halting the spread of the disease. In 1869 President Johnson pardoned convicted conspirators Mudd, Edman Spangler and Samuel Arnold.

Details

  • Title: Dr. Samuel Mudd's Medical Kit
  • Location: Ford's Theatre National Historic Site
  • Subject Keywords: Mudd's Medical Kit, Dr. Samuel Mudd's Medical Kit, Dr. Samuel Mudd, Dry Tortugas Islands, Lincoln Assasination, Lincoln's Assassination, President Lincoln, US President, Assassination, Abraham Lincoln, Ford's Theatre, 1865
  • Type: Physical Object
  • Original Source: Ford's Theatre National Historic Site
  • Photographer: Carol M. Highsmith

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