Dr. Samuel Mudd
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1 day ago · The politically charged The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)—which marked the debut with Ford of long-serving "Stock Company" player John Carradine—explored the little-known story of Samuel Mudd, a physician who was caught up in the Abraham Lincoln assassination conspiracy and consigned to an offshore prison for treating the injured John ...
Jun 10, 2024 · As the trial for Lincoln’s murder began on May 10, 1865, eight conspirators were charged. These suspects included Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt, David Herold, Samuel Mudd, Michael ...
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3 days ago · The Herero and Nama genocide (formerly, also ' Herero and Namaqua genocide') was a campaign of ethnic extermination and collective punishment which was waged against the Herero (Ovaherero) and the Nama in German South West Africa (now Namibia) by the German Empire.
Jun 19, 2024 · From 1905 until 1907, Shark Island was used by the German colonial army as a labour and extermination camp for prisoners captured during Germany’s genocidal campaign against the Herero and Nama peoples in the early twentieth century.
Jun 26, 2024 · This approach is as effective in The Lost Patrol (1934) or The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) as it is in the westerns that he shot in Utah and Arizona’s Monument Valley. Ford’s stately, carefully staged and composed medium and long shots of groups of characters interacting (with a relatively spare use of “star” close-ups) are ...
Jun 10, 2024 · In May 1964, BBC Panorama's Michael Charlton made "the most feared journey in the criminal world" across the churning waters of San Francisco Bay to see the infamous prison island of Alcatraz.
Jun 15, 2024 · But beneath the cheese resided a surprising truth: Corman was a godfather of American independent film who played a prominent role in launching the careers of directors such as Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Peter Bogdanovich, and Francis Ford Coppola.
