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Mary Surratt was the defendant among the executed that received a punishment far out weighing her role in the crime. Mary Surratt was convicted of conspiracy in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. She was sentenced to death and became the first woman to be executed by the U.S. government. Mary Surratt was the mother of John Surratt who was a conspirator that helped John Wilkes Booth plan Lincoln’s kidnap and later, his assassination. With the help of Chasing Lincoln’s Killer, “Lincoln and the Writ of Liberty,” and the movie The Conspirator, it can be proven that Mary Surratt’s punishment was unjust. Mary Surratt received a punishment far worse than what she deserved because she was innocent, blamed for her son’s actions, and she did

There are lots of reasons why Mary Surratt is guilty but,there are also reasons why she is not guilty. One of the reasons why she is guilty is her reaction. Mary’s reaction was suspicious when the police came and told her that Abraham has got assassinated she wasn’t crying or anything she acted like she already knew about it.Then the

To resume to the summary, the book “Chasing Lincoln's Killer” by James L. Swanson. The book is about the killer John Wilkes Booth, and not shows the full view of Abraham Lincoln because the book is talking about John Wilkes Booth Saga. The Story follows John Wilkes Booth along with his plan, and the plan was to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. The book shows the sketch also, shows how he, J. Wilkes Booth, killed Abraham Lincoln a point blank shot kill. After he killed the president, John Wilkes Booth flead from the theatre and went out of Washington to keep himself safe from danger. Throughout his adventure, he has been going through ups and downs across his road, on the contrary he had companions to help him out when he his going through horrible times. John Wilkes Booth helpers gave him a home to live even having the risk of being arrested for helping out a murderer. This means, it shows that John Wilkes Booth reputation is high and can have an ample amount of helpers throughout his

Everyone knows that John Wilkes Booth was the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, but not everyone knows John Wilkes Booth’s take on it. Like Why did he do it? Who were his accomplices? What happened after he did it? Well that is was this paper is about.

Mary Surratt had John Wilkes Booth stay at her boarding house before the assassination of Lincoln. She said that she only knew about the kidnapping of president, but prosecutors believed that Surratt was lying because she wanted

After that, the book speaks to how John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices planned and executed the assassination of President Lincoln. The book then details John Wilkes Booth and his perils of getting away to a place where he can seek refuge from the manhunt. Next, Andrew Johnson is sworn in and takes the office ofhte presidency as the seventeenth president. Booth continues running for twelve days following the assassination of President Lincoln. It was on the twelfth day that Booth was apprehended in a tobacco warehouse on Garrett Farm. After setting the barn containing John Wilkes Booth ablaze, a firefight ensued. Though the soldiers were ordered not to kill John Wilkes Booth, a corpral named Boston Cobrett shot and killed John Wilkes Booth, claiming that God has instructed him to do it. With the head of the conspiracy dead, there were still other people that were somehow involved with the plot to assassinate Lincoln, Mary Surratt, David Herald, George Atzerodt, and Lewis Powell faced trial on July 6, 1865, and were all four hanged on July 7,

Mary Surratt was a part of Abraham Lincoln’s kidnapping plot. In Source one it states “Mary knew about the kidnaping part but not the plan to kill the Abraham Lincoln. Mary Surratt was guilty for trying to kidnap Abraham Lincoln. Source2 “Booth had originally wanted to kidnap the president.” Booth only wanted to kidnap Abraham Lincoln to give a little scare, but after a while he got the idea in his mind that he wanted to kill Abraham Lincoln. In Source 2 it states “But our cause being almost lost, something decisive

Most Americans know John Wilkes Booth as the assassin of Abraham Lincoln- shot at a play at Ford’s Theater on April 14th, 1865. However, the names of the conspirators that surrounded Wilkes Booth are relatively unknown, especially that of Mary Surratt. Mary Surratt, a mother and boardinghouse proprietor, was arrested and tried for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln along with her son, John Surratt. Pleas from her family, lawyer, and fellow conspirators did not allow her to escape her fate, and she was hanged for her crimes on July 7th, 1865. Even from the scaffold, Lewis Powell, another conspirator condemned to die, cried, “Mrs. Surratt is innocent. She doesn't deserve to die with the rest of us.” So who was this woman, and most

The mystery of how John Wilkes Booth pulled off the most influential and notorious assassinations in history is revealed in Killing Lincoln. The author of this book, Bill O’Reilly, built up the plot of the story through vivid historical details and pieced them together like a thriller. He tries to explain all of what happened on one of the most interesting and sad days in American history. Many conspiracies and Civil War ideals are on full display in the book. I agree with most of O’Reilly’s ideas but there are some that I am not really sure about because of his point of view like many of the conspiracy theories. Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly was a very compelling read which described the Civil War, lives of

April 15, 1865 has gone down as one of the darkest hours in U.S. history, when at Ford’s Theatre, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. When we think of Abraham Lincoln being assassinated, we usually think of John Wilkes Booth or Ford’s Theatre. How many of us would think of Mary Surratt or her boarding house? Mary Surratt owned and operated a boardinghouse where it is believed that John Wilkes Booth and others planned to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln and other high ranking government officials. She was tried and executed. How were her actions seen during her time compared to how they are viewed today looking back at her actions?

Mary Surratt was sentenced to death by hanging for aiding in the president's assassins. She helped John Wilkes Booth and his associates kill president Lincoln and attempt to kill vice president Seward. I think Mary Surratt was guilty of aiding the president's assassins and attempting to help kidnap the president and i will tell you why.

Her cell was sparse, yet she was able to maintain her catholic beliefs throughout her entire trial. Her Military trial began May, 9th and she was tried alongside, Harold, Paine, Adzerodt, Michael Olaughlen, Edman Spangler, Samuel Mudd, and Samurl Arnold. Frederick Aiken and Thomas Clampitt, Marys lawyers, were very inexperienced and both were affiliated with union ties. They were livid that she was being prosecuted under military commission. The war had ended five days earlier; therefore she should have been prosecuted in a civilian’s trial. There were two main witnesses for the prosecution whose testimony was what ultimately lead to Mary’s execution. The first, Lewis Weichmen, landlord to the Surratt family, said that three days before the assassination he accompanied Mary Surratt to tavern for business. Then on the day of the assassination, Wiechmann went with Mary to the tavern once more, where she gave a package to John Lloyd. After getting back to Washington that night, around nine o'clock Weichmann testified that Booth came to the boarding house and had another secret meeting Mary. He said that after the meeting her attitude changed and she became very nervous. The jury was very suspect when learning about Mary’s secrecy and it was starting to become much clearer that she had knowledge of the affairs to be taken place that night. Lloyd, the second

However, there is insufficient evidence that shows Booth may have been a rebel agent for the Confederates. Fellow conspirator George Atzerodt made a statement before his trial in 1865 that told of Booth's knowledge of a Confederate plot to blow up the White House. “The theory of Confederate complicity in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln is accepted by several of the current Lincoln assassination historians, scholars, researchers, and writers (Norton).” That may be so, but there is no evidence proving that the Confederates hired Booth, but several resources that show Booth plotted the assassination with co-conspirators, which illustrates the larger

Abraham Lincoln was dead. Her house had been used to plan the murder. The last day of Mary Surratt was upon her. The prison door opened and the convicted people walked in. Mary nearly fainted when she was exposed to the sight of the gallows. Three dug graves and open coffins stared her down. They were marched off to the gallows to be executed. Her case was one of the most controversial during the Civil War times. Was Mary Surratt actually a conspirator in the assassination of Lincoln, or was she just an innocent bystander? I believe that Mary Surratt is guilty, and got caught up in too many lies. I don't believe she should have been executed, but she was indeed guilty. Evidence lies in the fact that she knew about the 'shooting irons',

First of all when Louis Weichmann gave the package to Mary which contain weapons and binoculars which was meant for John Wilkes Booth. Mary did not know what the package was meant for or what was inside of it. The evidence is Weichmann did not tell her what the package was for or who is was meant for or what was in the package More evidence is that in the letter that John Wilkes Booth gave to a fellow actor. The letter contain the names of the people who were involved in the plot of the murder and Mary Surratt name was not included in the letter proving that she was not or knew about the murder. These were the reason why Mary Surratt did not know about the