Assassination Trivia

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(12-20-2019 05:48 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Good try, Dennis, but kudos to Joe and Eva. That is Richard Mudd with the couch where Dr. Samuel Mudd examined JWB's leg. Richard Mudd had the couch renovated in a Saginaw, Michigan, upholstery shop in 1953, and the picture is from the May 10, 1953, edition of the Saginaw News.

And, about thirty years later, the process of getting the Mudds' couch back to the Mudd home/museum became quite a project. Dr. Richard was giving the couch back to the home, but he wanted the folks there to pay the moving costs -- which their leader at that time did not want to do.

I believe it was Richard Sloan of this forum who finally began a fundraiser among us die-hard Lincoln assassination folks to pay for that piece of history to return to Maryland. If I remember correctly, Dr. Richard's daughter took a photo of the sofa in the Mudds' parlor and had her film confiscated by said leader. You have to love family feuds...