Mudd Day

When Celebrated

Always on December 20th

Gifty-ness

About the Holiday

On Mudd Day we remember Dr. Samuel Mudd who provided medical assistance to a disguised John Wilkes Booth who had just assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Wilkes broke his leg fleeing from the theater. Mudd was sentenced to life in prison, though four years into it President Andrew Johnson pardoned him. Dr. Mudd's name has been dragged through the mud since his sentencing giving the term "your name is mud" a whole new meaning.

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