Jul 6, 2015
Affidavit of Sarah F. Mudd, 7/6/1865
From File Unit: B-596, Samuel A. Mudd. Pardon Case Files, 1853 - 1946. Records of the Office of the Pardon Attorney, 1846 - 1989.
Sarah Mudd, wife of Dr. Samuel Mudd, provided this affidavit on July 6, 1865, testifying that she saw Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth in the fall of 1864 and again on April 15, 1865, the morning after Lincoln’s assassination. Dr. Mudd was convicted of conspiring with Booth and imprisoned until he was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson in 1869.
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