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The Controversy Surrounding the Trial, Conviction and Hanging of Mary Surratt
Correction: The date of the execution was July 7, 1865
Mary Surratt was one of four people hanged by the US Federal Government for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth and others in the assassination plot that led to the murder of Abraham Lincoln. Found guilty, there remains controversy as to her actual guilt and as to whether she deserved her fate at the gallows. This podcast will discuss her role and leave listeners wondering whether the decision to hang her was truly justified.
For More Information:
Kate Clifford Larson on Mary Surratt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jqaJDwgQTw
Mary Surratt: Guilty or Not Guilty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDcV4Rpnx0I
For an argument that Mary Surratt met the legal threshold for conspiracy see:
Blood on the Moon: the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Edward Steers Jr.
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Correction: The date of the execution was July 7, 1865
Mary Surratt was one of four people hanged by the US Federal Government for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth and others in the assassination plot that led to the murder of Abraham Lincoln. Found guilty, there remains controversy as to her actual guilt and as to whether she deserved her fate at the gallows. This podcast will discuss her role and leave listeners wondering whether the decision to hang her was truly justified.
For More Information:
Kate Clifford Larson on Mary Surratt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jqaJDwgQTw
Mary Surratt: Guilty or Not Guilty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDcV4Rpnx0I
For an argument that Mary Surratt met the legal threshold for conspiracy see:
Blood on the Moon: the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Edward Steers Jr.