Date: 2008-08-21
Link: http://www.earthweek.com/2008/ew080822/ew080822x.html
Earthweek - August 22, 2008Clearly visible are the walls of a Civil War-era garrison known as Fort Jefferson. Its extremely remote location was deemed a fitting place to imprison Dr. Samuel Mud, the doctor who set the broken leg of John Wilkes Boot following Booths assassination of President Lincoln in 1865.
