Show -- - --- -- - MOOPP01'e411744AZ:t7 - The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday June All 9 1991 ----A Name Is Mudd — Mission Is Crystal Clear il f By Bob Secter 1-- LOS ANGELES TIMES j fo SAGINAW Mid — Even if his name weren't Mudd even if he spent more than seven dec- ades obsessed by that skeleton rat- ri tling around in the family closet Richard Mudd would be a pretty re markable fellow At 91 he's updating the two vol11 ume 1800-pag- e Mudd family biohe first 40 years published gfl raphy t 4 ago He's planning to lead a tour of 4 history buffs to a remote Florida isA retired in du s 11 I anr trial tphysician air flight surgeon he still conducts medical for pilots actively serves on t I exams a variety of medical review boards and community organizations — and drives himself around this cen- tral Michigan auto manufacturing 1is center to do it all I Not that he has not slowed down bit Last year he had to give up 1 handball after a bout with pneumo- ma Still he starts most days with 1 an exercise regimen of 25 sit-up- s and a half hour or so on the tread- mill or stationary bike tf But back to that skeleton which i is at the heart of Richard Mudd's overarching passion It belongs to r Mudd's grandfather Samuel Mudd obscure Civil War-erdoofJcathonr 4 1 ad iI r a I Wilkes Booth Abraham Lincoln's 1 I assassin as Booth fled the nation's t 1 tapital in April 1865 He was later ' 1 convicted by a military commission or conspiracy in the assassination 1 Richard Mudd insists his grand 4 father was merely a victim of cia doctor who did noth- r1 eumstances more than treat an ailing man ing ' i Con 4 who showed up at his door railMudd Samuel vinced was that ! roaded by hysterical Union forces 1 I: scapegoats Idesperate forcrusaded the his entire grandson has i adult life to rewrite history and exI onerate "Dr Sam" Now after 72 years he could be ) on the verge of attaining that goal t 1 ' ' A the Pentagon has finally t agreed to review the case A deci a sion could be at least a year off but I Richard Mudd is already ecstatic "I y don't know whether my blood pres 1 since sure will stand it" he glowed "I will be in high heaven I don't think the review board can do anything else but clear Samuel Mudd" It's been a lonely and frustrating struggle for Richard Mudd a lifelong overachiever who began researching his grandfathers case while simultaneously earning degrees in both history and medicine at Georgetown University Over the years he's collected tens of thousands of books and documents turning his basement into a library on not just the Mudd case but all aspects of the Civil War He's given hundreds of lectures and slide shows gotten schools and monuments dedicated to Samuel Mudd and cajoled resolutions of support for his cause out of several state legislatures He has also enlisted the support of congressmen senators and even Presidents Carter and Reagan though both leaders concluded that even they were powerless under the Constitution to overturn a criminal mini-researc- was guilty "I think he helped Booth escape and he had to pay the consequences for that and for his lack of candor at the trial" explained William Hanchett a retired San Diego State history professor and author of the a Lincoln Murder Conspiracies 1983 study of the assassination The case for or against Samuel Mudd whom his grandson likes to portray as a simple country doctor trying to raise four children on a Maryland farm hangs on subtle details and inferences But the basic facts aren't in dispute Booth an actor and Confederate sympathizer broke a leg as he fled h from Ford's Theater after shooting Lincoln on that fateful Good Friday night April 14 1865 Shortly before dawn the next morning he showed up on horseback at Samuel Mudd's home 30 miles southeast of the capital in rural Charles County Maryland Mudd set the leg and gave Booth and a companion some food and a place to rest Later that day Mudd rode into nearby Bryantown where he encountered some pickets from the 13th New York Cavalry who told them that Booth had shot Lincoln He said nothing but at church the well after his visitors next day had left — Mudd asked a cousin to inform authorities in town that two suspicious men had been to his home Mudd was later arrested Meanwhile Booth was surrounded and killed by a federal posse that caught up with him in Virginia In all a military commission convicted eight people of conspiring to kill Lincoln Four were hanged Mudd was sentenced to life but spent only four years in the military stockade at Fort Jefferson a fetid islet off the Florida Keys He was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson as a reward for helping to save fellow inmates and soldiers during a yellow fever epidemic at the fort Still Mudd himself was weakened by the epidemic and he died in 1883 a broken man To a great degree the debate conviction And then there were the publicity stunts distributing thousands of "Save Dr Mudd" bumper stickers and bombarding the Postal Service with petitions for a Dr Mudd stamp and even an appearance on the old TV quiz show "To Tell the Truth" "He is very proud of the Mudd family and I think he does not like the fact that the Mudd's have to live with this black mark on their name" explained ld Thomas Mudd one of Richard's seven children Still it all seemed like tilting at windmills Then last year the Pentagon — under prodding from another sympathetic politician Sen — relented Joseph Biden and agreed to let an Army administrative appeals panel review the case and posthumously change the outcome if it determined that Samuel Mudd had gotten a raw deal There's only one little flaw that might interfere with any uplifting style finale to the saga of the Doctors Mudd: Some of the nation's most respected Civil Texas to Do Culture Up Big In Kennedy Center Festival THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Texas which likes to do everything in a big way will celebrate its diverse culture for 11 days and in dozens of ways at the Kennedy Center this month Texas' governor promises it'll be "bigger than Dallas hotter than a Labor Day picnic in Beaumont and more fun that the Ter lingua Chili Festi- val" ' - : ' The Kennedy Center folks admit the whole thing's ahem a "bit of a departure" from regular programming The center's first festival to cele brate the lively arts of one state kicks off Tuesday with the presentation of a pair of armadillos to the National Zoo Until June 22 more than 400 Texans will share the spotlight and showcase the state's rich artistic heritage "Texas musicians deliver every thing from Texas swing music to the mariachi sounds of south Texas and the Cajun strains of deep East Texas" said Gov Ann Richards "Our artisans are equally diverse and I just hope that the Kennedy Center is big enough to show off a little of ' everything" The center may be big enough but the bands that play the most popular of Texas sounds — Western swing Texas Cajun Tejano mu sic outlaw country bluesy country 1 o March ( ' Dr Clifford Webb 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