Dr. Mudd, the grandson, fights to clear name of famed ancestor
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Dr. Richard D. Mudd, 91, has been fighting for 75 years to clear the name of his grandfather, Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1865 for treating John Wilkes Booth just hours after Booth had assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Although Samuel Mudd was pardoned by Andrew Johnson and released from prison a few years later, he has never been officially exonerated by the US government. In Jan, 1992, Richard Mudd and many of his relatives testified at the Pentagon, and the family believes the military panel was sympathetic to their pleas. The family's request hinges on the fact that John Wilkes Booth arrived at Samuel Mudd's home long before the news of the assassination did. Samuel Mudd was simply doing his job as a doctor.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1992
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Human rights II - Cherif Bassiouni condemns 'psychology' of Balkan crimes
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United Nations war crimes investigator M. Cherif Bassiouni claims that psychology has been misused to spur the ethnic conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. Bosnian Serb Pres Radovan Karadzic was a practicing psychiatrist before the war. He has based some of his rhetoric on the writings of another Serb psychiatrist, Jovan Raskovic, who was known as the 'demented psychiatrist.' Raskovic's writings have been used to belittle members of other ethnic groups and to justify the violence used against them. The conflict among Serbs, Croatians and Muslims has reached a point where no one seems able to break out of the cycle of violence. Each side claims that they are only violent in self- and that they are retaliating for violence done to them.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1993
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