Dr.Richard Mudd

[Ed Steers]

(05-16-2014 11:11 AM)CJSchoonover Wrote:  

(03-17-2014 09:05 AM)Ed Steers Wrote:  I am a little late coming to this discussion. Dr. Mudd and I exchanged several letters over the years and when he became bed-ridden he would call me occasionally on Sunday mornings and we would talk. We remained good friends to the end and enjoyed our "verbal arm wrestling." In one of the letters he wrote me he stated, "I have always felt that my grandfather had known about the Lincoln kidnapping plan." He always maintained that there were two plots, not one. While his grandfather knew about the one, he did not know about the other. Hence, he was innocent. He did not accept the legal concept of "vicarious liability."

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I can see Dr. Mudd's point on that, but it doesn't mean he was innocent. He aided Booth, he knew Booth and lied about it. I think Ed as history as well as your research has shown, Dr. Sam Mudd was guilty as charged.

Thank you. Yes, "guilty as charged." Difficult for some to accept.