    
Title: Dr. Samuel A. Mudd Description: A contemporary woodcut of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd (Samuel Alexander Mudd; December 20, 1833-January 10, 1883) who was imprisoned for giving medical care to American stage actor John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838-April 26, 1865); Booth had broken a leg leaping from the stage in Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865, after shooting Abraham Lincoln (February 25, 1809-April 15, 1865), sixteenth President of the U.S. (1861-1865); Mudd set Booth's leg and gave him a pair of crutches, but later told investigators he did not know the man; Mudd was imprisoned for aiding Booth, but was released several years later; a 1936 U.S. film, The Prisoner of Shark Island, tells a sympathetic version of Mudd's involvement in the conspiracy; Category: Political Figures Topic: U.S. Presidents Subject: Abraham Lincoln Keywords: assassinations, doctors, films, motion pictures, movies, presidents of the U.S., U.S. presidents. Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1200 x 1314 (1.58 MPixels) (1.10) Print Size: 10.2 x 11.1 cm; 4.0 x 4.4 inches File Size: 4.54 MB (4,763,032 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000530822 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
