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Chasing Lincoln's Killer By James L. Swanson

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Who done it?
One event that devastated many. In the historical non-fiction book Chasing Lincoln’s killer by James L.. Swanson, Booth has many accomplices. An accomplice is a person who helps another commit a crime, which in this case it’s Samuel Mudd and Mary Surratt who had helped John Wilkes Booth assassinate Lincoln at Ford’s Theater. For helping Booth commit this awful crime both M. Surratt and Dr. Mudd should be held accountable for their actions.

Many accomplices didn’t know they were helping Booth kill Lincoln, but they did know that they were helping him in a way such as M. Surratt. Booth had asks Mary for a favor which was to deliver a package to her tavern(pg 16). He also tells her he will stop at the tavern …show more content…

Mudd knew what he was doing for Booth after he found out what Booth had done. Dr. Mudd was a doctor, in the wrong place at the wrong time, doing what doctors are trained to do: treat patients; in Mudd's case, a man who had just assassinated the President. After assessing the president both had jumped off from the booth onto the stage and landed wrongly on his leg. Booth had gone to many places and realized his injury was too gruesome to ignore. Booth and Harold then went to Dr. Mudd's house, as a doctor, Mudd treated Booth unknowingly he was helping him escape In a way. Dr. Mudd needed more supplies so he went to Town, once might have arrived he had heard about the news of Lincoln's assassination by booth(pg. ) Dr. Mudd had a choice to go to the authority and tell them that booth was at his house and explain the whole situation to them without him having to go through such rough consequences, but he didn't. Dr. Mudd continued to buy the supplies and treat Booth without him even asking or questioning Booth. When a military investigator tracking Booth's escape route, reached Mudd's home on April 18, Mudd claimed that the man whose leg (fibula) he fixed "was a stranger to him."(pg . ) If Mudd really had no idea what he did for Booth he would not have lied because he wouldn’t have thought he had done anything wrong. They had found a boot that had “j Wilkes” written inside, yet Mudd still found excuses and denied the fact of him helping Booth. Both the conspirators knew

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