Lincoln's murder..Mary Surratt

assassinated. But what many people don’t know about is the conspiracy surrounding it.

The uncovering of this conspiracy led to the first execution of a woman in the United

States. The resulting execution of Mary Surratt was unconstitutional.

Lincoln was assassinated in Ford’s Theater on April 13, 1865. Multitudes of conspiracy

theories have been concocted to try to explain why, but there is one that is considered the

real story. It is the concept of the small conspiracy that named John Wilkes Booth as

After the murder, the government arrested hundreds of people it believed were

capable of having participated in the crime. In the end, eight were charged with

conspiracy and the others were let go. (1865 Assassination)

One of these eight people was Mary Surratt. She owned a boarding house in

Maryland, right outside of Washington DC. Mary was 42 at the time of these occurrences

and had three children. (1865 Assassination) During the Civil War, one of her children

John Surratt Jr., became a spy for the Confederate army. Through this, he met a man

named John Wilkes Booth. They became friendly and Booth sta

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