I’M PUNNY
I’M PUNNY
Why this story wasn’t titled “Leno slings Mud At Doctor’s Family,” I’ll never know.
The “Tonight Show” host said that for years, newsman Roger Mudd worked to clear his grandfather’s name. But it really was Thomas Mudd’s father, the late Dr. Richard D. Mudd of Saginaw, who spent years seeking exoneration. Roger Mudd is a distant relative.
Dr. Samuel Mudd of Maryland set assassin John Wilkes Booth’s broken leg after the shooting. Mudd was convicted of complicity and was imprisoned for nearly four years before being pardoned by President Andrew Johnson. But the government never completely cleared the doctor.