Abraham Lincoln's Assassination and Freemasonry

Tue, 25 May 2021 12:54:53 GMT

The Army was ordered Thursday to reconsider the conviction of a doctor who treated John Wilkes Booth after he assassinated President Lincoln.Dr. Samuel Mudd was sent to prison 133 years ago for helping Booth escape. The morning after Booth shot Lincoln in the head at Ford's Theater, he came to Mudd's home in Maryland seeking treatment for the leg he broke while jumping from the president's box onto the stage.  What happened after that is in dispute. A military commission convicted Mudd in 1865 of aiding Booth in his escape. Mudd said he did not know of Lincoln's assassination and failed to recognize Booth, a popular actor.