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What was the author’s purpose for going into detail about Dr. Mudd’s connection to Booth?

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Samuel Alexander Mudd Sr. (December 20, 1833 – January 10, 1883) was an American physician who was imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the 1865 assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

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