Persuasive Essay On Abraham Lincoln

Words: 480
Pages: 2

Devyn Parris
Ms. Roberts
ELA __2_
15 March, 2017
How Guilty was Dr.Samuel A. Mudd Doctor Samuel A. Mudd was sentenced to life in prison but for what he did, he deserved to be hanged not sentenced to life in prison. Because he helped the person that killed President Abraham Lincoln. That person was John Wilkes Booth he was the one person that killed President Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Samuel A. Mudd helped the person that killed President Abraham Lincoln. When Dr. Samuel Mudd helped the man known as John Wilkes Booth he only told half the truth to Colonel Wells after hours of questions and after hours of the questioning. Colonel Wells showed Mudd a picture of the man who killed President Abraham Lincoln and mudd told the man that the man was John Wilkes Booth and that he has seen him before. But the main part of this is that it was only after hours of questioning that Dr. Samuel A. Mudd. When John Wilkes Booth met with Dr. Samuel A. Mudd John Wilkes Booth lied about who he was and did not tell him that he was the person that killed President even though Doctor Samuel A. Mudd first thought was i need to help this man he did not think to ask what happened to the man that had a hurt body part that he needed help with, but he just helped not even wondering what had happened. Even though he did not know about the
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Mudd was only guilty enough to be put in prison he was not guilty enough to be hanged. Well i know for a fact that he was guilty enough to be put in prison but he deserved more than to be just put in prison for his crimes he deserved to be hanged for helping the man that killed President Abraham Lincoln. But even though he know who the man in alot of pictures were he told a lie but only half the truth and the part of the truth that he told is that he know the man in the photo as John Wilkes Booth.but he still told the lie to Colonel Wells. But he did tell half the truth to him after hours of