Townsend Article about Dr. Mudd

[RJNorton]

I agree, Jerry. I had not seen an interview like this before.

"Now, Dr. Mudd, what is your explanation of your cousin's behavior at that time?"

"I think there is no question that Sam Mudd immediately knew Booth, and that Booth told him that he had murdered the President. If he had possessed the moral courage to have said at once: 'I will have nothing to do with assassination; I will give this man up to his Government,' he would have stood very differently toward himself, his family and his fame. But you see those rebel views he had held, that obstinacy of character, his prejudices, his false sense of honor, made him secrete his information till he had actually made himself an accessory after the fact."