University of Richmond UR Scholarship Repository Law Faculty Publications School of Law 1995 Dr. Mudd and the Lincoln Assassination: The aC se Reopened John Paul Jones University of Richmond,
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[email protected]. Dr. udd and the Lincoln Assassination 'rH 14: CASE REOPENED The proceedings of a Moot Court of Military Appeal to hear the case of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd with contributions by F. LEE BAILEY, JOHN JAY DOUGLASS, CANDIDA EWING STEEL, JOHN S. JENKINS and others Edited by JOHN PAUL JONES $24.95 Dr. Mudd and the Lincoln Assassination THE CASE REOPENED Edited by JOHN PAUL JONES On June 30, 1865, Samuel A. Mudd was convicted of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth and others ro assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. He was sentenced ro life imprisonment on an island off the coast of Florida. Dr. Mudd was pardoned in 1869 by President Andrew Johnson, based on his assistance in a yellow fever epidemic rather than on the merits. of his case, leaving unre solved until the present day the question of his ultimate guilt or innocence. On February 12, 1993, the University of Richmond School of Law convened a distin guished group of jurists and Civil War histori ans to thoroughly present both sides of the case of Samuel Mudd and the broader Lincoln Conspiracy before a panel of judges in an actual courtroom.