The Assassins Doctor

Author : Robert K. Summers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Assassin's Doctor written by Robert K. Summers and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Assassin's Doctor is a biography of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, one of the eight persons convicted by a military tribunal in the 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassination trial. He was found guilty by a 5-4 vote of the nine military judges. If this had been a civilian trial requiring a unanimous verdict, he would have been freed. The conviction remains controversial today. The Assassin's Doctor tells the story of Dr. Mudd's family, his education, and his life as a Southern Maryland tobacco farmer using slave labor. It tells how he became involved with Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, why he was convicted of conspiring with Booth, how he saved the lives of many people during a yellow fever epidemic at his prison, and his life afterwards. The book also contains several historic photos and the full text of many historic documents about Dr. Mudd's life. You'll love this book because it's the story of the fall and redemption of a man who had lost everything -- his home, family, children, reputation, and freedom -- only to recover everything by risking his life, and almost losing it, to save the lives of those who imprisoned him.

Author : Edward T. Haslam
Publisher : TrineDay
ISBN 13 : 1937584984
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr. Mary's Monkey written by Edward T. Haslam and published by TrineDay. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new updated edition is not only hard cover for long life, but it contains an additional 25 pages of revelations from the author including documents from the FBI, CIA, CDC, and NOPD, plus the actual crime scene photos of the Mary Sherman murder. You'll see why we say this is the "Hottest cold case in America." The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping exposÉ of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations over the course of three decades. Following a trail of police records, FBI files, cancer statistics, and medical journals, this revealing book presents evidence of a web of medical secret-keeping that began with the handling of evidence in the JFK assassination and continued apace, sweeping doctors into cover-ups of cancer outbreaks, contaminated polio vaccine, the arrival of the AIDS virus, and biological weapon research using infected monkeys.

Author : Robert K Summers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578487489
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doctor's Slaves written by Robert K Summers and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of the historical accounts of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd's life focus on his conviction as one of the eight persons tried for conspiracy in the 1865 assassination of president Abraham Lincoln. But Dr. Mudd was also a farmer who relied on slave labor to plant and harvest his tobacco crops. This book is the story of the lives of those men and women. Dr. and Mrs. Mudd acquired at least nine slaves between 1859 and 1864. Their first five slaves were documented in the 1860 Federal Slave Census. They were a 26-year-old man, a 19-year-old girl, a 10-year-old boy, an 8-year-old girl, and a 6-year-old girl. The 26-year-old man was Elzee Eglent. The 19-year-old woman was his sister, Mary Simms. The 14-year-old boy was their brother, Milo Simms. The two little girls were called sisters, but their different last names suggest they were not. We do know they were orphans. The 8-year-old girl was Lettie Hall. The 6-year-old girl was Louisa Cristie. Four additional slaves were acquired between 1860 and 1864. They were Rachel Spencer, Richard Washington, Melvina Washington, and Frank Washington. Rachel Spencer probably came from the plantation of Henry Lowe Mudd where her mother Lucy Spencer, her sister Maria Spencer, and her brothers Baptist Spencer and Joseph Spencer were slaves. Maria Spencer was married to William Hurbert, a slave on Susanna Mudd's plantation in nearby Prince George's County. Richard Washington, Melvina Washington, and Frank Washington came from the Dyer plantation. After the Civil War started, some of Dr. Mudd's slaves ran away to Washington, D.C. where slavery was abolished in 1862., or joined the Union Army which began enlisting former slaves in 1863. Others left the farm after the State of Maryland abolished slavery in November 1864. Three of Dr. Mudd's slaves remained on the farm after emancipation and were still there at the time of the 1870 Federal census. Not much is known about the slaves' lives before Dr. Mudd became involved in the Lincoln assassination. Slave owners didn't normally keep records of slaves' births, marriages, deaths, or other events in their lives. Most of what we know about Dr. Mudd's slaves comes from testimony by and about them at the Lincoln conspiracy trial, as reported in this book. After the trial, the lives of most of Dr. Mudd's former slaves faded once again from public view. However, research for this book uncovered interesting information about some of their post-slavery lives, and is reported in this book. This includes former slave Lettie Hall Dade's account of John Wilkes visit to the Mudd farm immediately following the assassination.

Author : Robert Summers
Publisher : Robert Summers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Assassin's Doctor written by Robert Summers and published by Robert Summers. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Mudd opened his front door to the loud knocking at 4 a.m., and saw John Wilkes Booth, a man he knew. Booth had assassinated president Abraham Lincoln six hours earlier, but had broken his leg while trying to escape. With no radio, TV, or internet to inform him, Dr. Mudd had no knowledge of the assassination, so he fixed Booth's broken leg. But he was later arrested and put on trial with seven others for conspiring to assassinate president Lincoln. Dr. Mudd had met Booth at least twice before the assassination. Booth had even stayed overnight at Dr. Mudd's farm house on one of those occasions. Improbably, Dr. Mudd told those hunting Booth that he didn't recognize the man whose leg he had fixed. The government's position was that any person assisting the escape of the assassin would be treated as an accomplice in the murder of the president. General August V. Kautz, one of the nine members of the Military Commission that tried the eight alleged conspirators, said: Dr. Mudd attracted much interest and his guilt as an active conspirator was not clearly made out. His main guilt was the fact that he failed to deliver them, that is, Booth and Herold, to their pursuers. All eight were found guilty at trial. Four were hung. The other four, including Dr. Mudd were incarcerated at the Fort Jefferson military prison, located on a dismal flyspeck of an island in the Gulf of Mexico, 70 miles west of Key West, 90 miles north of Havana, and 1,000 miles from Dr. Mudd's home in Maryland. The military prisoners at Fort Jefferson were a rough crowd. Their offenses included murder, manslaughter, robbery, grand larceny, and desertion. Standing orders said: “if a prisoner refuses to obey orders the sentinel must shoot him, and then use his bayonet, at the same time calling for the guard.” There were no bars on the prisoners' cells. The fort was in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. Want to escape? Go ahead and start swimming... Dr. Mudd tried to escape, but not by swimming. Shortly after he arrived at the fort, he tried to hide on a visiting supply ship, but was discovered, and spent three months in the fort's dungeon as punishment. In 1867 there was a terrible yellow fever epidemic at Dr. Mudd's prison. Two hundred seventy of the 387 people at the prison contracted yellow fever. Thirty-eight died. Many more would have died without Dr. Mudd's tireless help. When the epidemic had finally run its course, the surviving soldiers at Fort Jefferson signed a petition asking President Andrew Johnson to pardon Dr. Mudd for his heroic work during the epidemic. The petition said in part: He inspired the hopeless with courage, and by his constant presence in the midst of danger and infection, regardless of his own life, tranquilized the fearful and desponding. President Johnson pardoned Dr. Mudd in 1869 in large part because of his heroic work during the epidemic. The pardon said Dr. Mudd did not participate in the assassination of president Lincoln: I am satisfied that the guilt found by the said judgment against Samuel A. Mudd was of receiving, entertaining, harboring, and concealing John Wilkes Booth and David E. Herold, with the intent to aid, abet and assist them in escaping from justice after the assassination of the late President of the United States, and not of any other or greater participation or complicity in said abominable crime. Dr. Mudd returned home to his wife and children, and resumed his life as a country doctor and farmer for 14 more years. He died at home in 1883 at the age of 49. You'll love this book because it’s the story of the fall and redemption of a man who had lost everything –– his home, family, children, reputation, and freedom –– only to recover everything by risking his life, and almost losing it, to save the lives of those who imprisoned him. Get it now!

Author : Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 152479919X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Angel and the Assassin written by Donna Jackson Nakazawa and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling story of scientific detective work and medical potential that illuminates the newly understood role of microglia—an elusive type of brain cell that is vitally relevant to our everyday lives. “The rarest of books: a combination of page-turning discovery and remarkably readable science journalism.”—Mark Hyman, MD, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Food: What the Heck Should I Eat? NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIRED Until recently, microglia were thought to be helpful but rather boring: housekeeper cells in the brain. But a recent groundbreaking discovery has revealed that they connect our physical and mental health in surprising ways. When triggered—and anything that stirs up the immune system in the body can activate microglia, including chronic stressors, trauma, and viral infections—they can contribute to memory problems, anxiety, depression, and Alzheimer’s. Under the right circumstances, however, microglia can be coaxed back into being angelic healers, able to make brain repairs in ways that help alleviate symptoms and hold the promise to one day prevent disease. With the compassion born of her own experience, award-winning journalist Donna Jackson Nakazawa illuminates this newly understood science, following practitioners and patients on the front lines of treatments that help to “reboot” microglia. In at least one case, she witnesses a stunning recovery—and in others, significant relief from pressing symptoms, offering new hope to the tens of millions who suffer from mental, cognitive, and physical health issues. Hailed as a “riveting,” “stunning,” and “visionary,” The Angel and the Assassin offers us a radically reconceived picture of human health and promises to change everything we thought we knew about how to heal ourselves.

Author : Robert K. Summers
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781494462208
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Assassin's Doctor written by Robert K. Summers and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Assassin's Doctor is the story of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, one of the eight persons convicted in the 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassination trial. The book could just as easily have been entitled The Dr. Samuel A. Mudd Encyclopedia. It is a large 730-page book, and contains just about everything there is to know about Dr. Mudd. The Assassin's Doctor covers Dr. Mudd's life as a doctor/farmer/slave-owner before the assassination, his involvement with John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln assassination, the assassination trial, his incarceration in the Fort Jackson military prison after the trial, his heroic work during the terrible 1867 yellow fever epidemic at Fort Jefferson, and his life after being pardoned. The Assassin's Doctor also includes the full text of all the most important primary source documents concerning Dr. Mudd gathered into one convenient location, and arranged in chronological date order. Some of these documents have never been published before. The Assassin's Doctor is the story of a Confederate sympathizer, a celebrity convict, and a hero who saved the lives of those who imprisoned him. It also definitively answers the question of Dr. Mudd's guilt. Anyone interested in the Lincoln assassination story will enjoy The Assassin's Doctor, but it will be of particular interest to researchers, teachers, and students who will find everything there is to know about Dr. Mudd gathered into one convenient reference work.

Author : Terrance Dicks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780855231200
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin written by Terrance Dicks and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark R. Belsky
Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9781098394882
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doctor Assassin written by Mark R. Belsky and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Max Dent, a respected heart surgeon in Boston, was content to have put his old life as an assassin for the Israeli Intelligence services behind him. But when he agrees to execute one more mission, this time on American soil, Max finds himself drawn into a deadly terrorist plot. East and West, Fascism and terrorism, medicine and murder come together in a threat unparalleled since the Holocaust. Max may be the world's best chance to stop it--if he can survive.

Author : Robert Summers
Publisher : Robert Summers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Assassin's Doctor written by Robert Summers and published by Robert Summers. This book was released on 2014-01-29 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. Eight persons, including Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, were arrested for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth. A military court found all eight guilty. Four were executed by hanging for taking part in the actual assassination. The other four were sentenced to prison. Dr. Mudd and two of the others were sentenced to life imprisonment. The fourth man was sentenced to six years imprisonment. One of the men died in prison during a yellow fever epidemic in 1867. The other three, including Dr. Mudd, were pardoned by president Andrew Johnson in 1869. There are two parts to this book. The first part is the story of Dr. Mudd’s life, his early years and education, his marriage to Sarah Frances Dyer, his children, his slaves, his involvement with John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln assassination, his conviction at trial, his imprisonment at the Fort Jefferson military prison, his life-saving work during a horrific yellow fever epidemic there, and his life after being pardoned. He ran for the Maryland state legislature in 1877, but didn't win. He died at home in 1883, surrounded by his wife and children. The second part of the book is a collection of important historical documents concerning Dr. Mudd's life. Many have never been published before. The collection begins with a letter found in Georgetown University's Special Collections describing how the teenage Sam Mudd was expelled from the school for rowdy behavior. But for this event, Sam Mudd would probably have never switched to medical school, become a doctor, and met John Wilkes Booth. The collection also includes a report found in the National Institutes of Health's Medical Library describing how Dr. Mudd treated his yellow fever patients while in prison. The Assassin's Doctor is the story of a man who lost everything important to him - his home, family, children, reputation, and freedom - only to recover everything by risking his life, and almost losing it, to save the lives of those who imprisoned him. When the yellow fever epidemic was over, all the surviving soldiers at Fort Jefferson signed a petition to president Andrew Johnson asking him to pardon Dr. Mudd for helping save their lives. The Assassin’s Doctor abounds in fascinating stories of the life of Dr. Mudd and those around him. It will make an interesting and valuable addition to your bookshelf.

Author : Robert K Summers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578487380
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Get The Doctor From His Cell written by Robert K Summers and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was convicted with seven others in the 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassination trial, and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Fort Jefferson military prison in the Dry Tortugas islands near Florida. He suffered through three and a half years before being pardoned for heroic work during a yellow fever epidemic at the fort.