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Did John Wilkes Booth escape justice? Inside the conspiracies that the actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 lived under a stolen Englishman's identity in India or as a bartender in Texas for decades after history says he died John Wilkes Booth, born on May 10, 1838, was a prominent stage actor of his day The Civil War was coming to an end when Booth, 26, shot President Abraham Lincoln during a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC on April 14, 1865 The 16th president, who had steered the nation through the brutal conflict over slavery, died the next day. The country was...
>> yeah, samuel mudd. >> right. where that came from. mudd was cleared. you dragged him back into the mud again. >> he was sentenced to the dry tortugas, where you vacation down in florida, right off florida, key west. and he spent time in prison down there. they were pardoned. >> no, no. i mean --what was it? this administration -- or, i mean, the last administration or the administration before that. either bush or clinton -- right? -- pardoned mudd. >> well, whatever they did, mudd was guilty. i don't even remember that. mudd helped set booth's leg and didn't try to get him -- look, mudd wa...
>> yeah, samuel mudd. >> right. where that came from. mudd was cleared. you dragged him back into the mud again. >> he was sentenced to the dry tortugas, where you vacation down in florida, right off florida, key west. and he spent time in prison down there. they were pardoned. >> no, no. i mean --what was it? this administration -- or, i mean, the last administration or the administration before that. either bush or clinton -- right? -- pardoned mudd. >> well, whatever they did, mudd was guilty. i don't even remember that. mudd helped set booth's leg and didn't try to get him -- look, mudd wa...