...Mary Surratt’s sentence was not accurate for her role in the assassination. She was charged for treason in 1865. Mary was the first woman to be hanged. At this time she was 42 years old. Mary did not intend to help with the assassination of the president. She was also the first women to be hanged. Mary didn’t intend to help with the assassination. In the text it says,’’ It is possible that Mary knew of the kidnapping...
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...Unfair Trial? Who should be hanged? The innocent or the guilty? Mary Surratt was a widow who knew Booth because her son was friends with him. She had two children. Booth decided to kill Lincoln. Booth asked Mary Surratt to deliver a package for him, and she did it. She also held binoculars and guns for booth. Dr. Mudd helped Booth and his accomplice Herold. Dr. Mudd set Booth’s leg. Dr. Mudd went to town and he met some soldiers there that were looking for Booth. They asked him if he had seen Booth at all, but Dr. Mudd lied and told them to go the opposite way. Later Dr. Mudd told them they had to leave soon. Mary Surratt was supposedly in on the plot for the murder of Abraham Lincoln. Mary Surratt’s punishment did not fit her crime. Stanton...
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...Mary Surratt, a forty two year old widow had been accused of murdering, Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States. She was the mother of Anna Surratt and John Harrison Surratt, a confederate secret agent. Along with being a boardinghouse owner she was also innocent. By using the sources Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James Swanson, the movie The Conspirator, and “ Lincoln and the Writ of Liberty” it can be concluded that the death punishment given to Surratt was not reasonable. She was simply accused because her son was a friend to Booth, therefore convincing many people that she was guilty. It was unfair for Surratt to be punished yet despite having her lawyer, Frederick Aiken, she lost the case and pleaded guilty. Till this day people are uncertain whether or not the punishment Mary Surratt received was reasonable, well it was not. The main reason Mary...
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...you think Mary Surratt should have been hanged because of her part in the assassination of president Abraham Lincoln Mary? If you answered no you were correct. Surratt was wrongfully convicted. She should not have been punished so harshly for her actions. In 1840 Mary Surratt got married to John H. Surratt. They had a child named John Jr. He was the one who should have been hung instead of his mother. He became a well known confederate spy. John Jr. Surratt drank a lot with Booth and most likely talked about the plan to kill their president, Abraham Lincoln. Even though he was not in Washington the day of the assassination he should have still been held guilty for he was the one who helped the most. (Source 2) Mary Surratt should have been punished the same as Dr. Mudd-life in prison- or less than that. In the Chasing Lincoln's Killer book it states that she claims to not know Lewis Powell. “ Do you know this man?” asked the soldier,” And did you hire him to come and dig the gutter for you?” Mary Surratt...
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...Mary Surratt: Accomplice or Innocent Bystander Mary Surratt was a woman of many firsts. She was the first woman to ever be executed by the United States federal government. Her crime was suspected involvement in the first United States President assassination. This is better known as President Lincoln’s assassination by John Wilkes Booth. But how much did she really know about the scheme? Was she an accomplice to Booth, like many others including her son, or was she an innocent bystander who accidently got involved with assassins? Many people have heard of the John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln’s shooter, but few have heard of the people behind the scenes of the assassination. Some of the people suspected to be involved included Lewis...
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...find the cause of a state of things so mysterious and so shocking, he kept on until he arrived at the east room, which he entered. There he met with a sickening surprise. Before he was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments, Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting all as guards; and there was a throng of people, gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. ‘Who is dead in the White House?’ he demanded of one of the soldiers, “The President’ was his answer; ‘he was killed by an assassin.’ then came a loud burst of grief from the crowd, which woke him from the dream, he had been strangely annoyed by it ever since. Abraham Lincoln just had dreamed about his own assassination. In August 1864, the Sixteenth President of the United States of America was nearly assassinated about nine months before he was actually assassinated. This is the story. Lincoln was dismissive of any danger to himself or his family. Lincoln complained to the Army Chief of Staff Henry Halleck that he “was more afraid of being shot by the accidental discharge of one of [the new recruits’] carbines or revolvers, than of any attempt on...
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...Mary Surratt's death Did Mary Surratt receive a fair sentence or did she get the short end of the stick? Mary Surratt is the first woman to be hung by the government she owned a tavern and she was said to have helped in the assassination so she was tried and hung. Many people across the world have debated if Mary received a fair sentence for her crimes all the facts point towards she was rightfully hanged. One of the reasons she was hung was she helped Booth escape after killing the pres and gave him plenty of supplies. When the union came after lincoln’s killer she had lied to them and extended the chase which by law she was interfering with the...
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...conspirator in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Mary Surratt. Seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, the Vice-President, and the Secretary of State. Mary Surratt owned a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and planned the attacks. Frederick Aiken defended Surratt before a military tribunal. As the trial unfolds, Aiken realized his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and prisoner in order to capture her son, the only conspirator that had escaped a manhunt. He later turned himself in after his mom was executed. The Conspirator had a few scenes that were not accurate. Overall, this movie is historically accurate because after John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln, he was taken to a house across the street from the theater to be cared for, four of the captured conspirators were executed by hanging, and the trial by military tribunal was deemed unconstitutional. On the late evening of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth snuck into the viewing box where President Abraham Lincoln and others watched a play at Ford’s Theater. Booth shot Lincoln in the back of the head at a close range. The President was moved across the street to a gentleman’s home where he was pronounced dead the following morning. According to Lincoln’s family physician, Dr. Robert King Stone in a statement he had made during the trial, “I was sent for by Mrs. Lincoln immediately after the assassination. I arrived there in...
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...chair, paralyzed and struggling to breath” (History.com). “Assassination” states that the doctor reacted quickly by ripping the President’s shirt open for a physical examination, but Leale could not find the bullet wound. With that diagnosis, the focus shifted from saving the President to moving him out of Ford’s Theater (2009). “Abraham” states that Lincoln was transported to a home across the street and placed in...
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...he learned that the President would be visiting the Theatre to see a play that night.(Holzer “The president is shot” 90) Booth decided that this was his chance, that he would assassinate the president and have his accomplishes murder other heads of the government, thinking that the combination of these might be enough to save what was left of the Confederacy.(Marrin 211) However, Booth was not the first to want to kill the president, in fact Abraham Lincoln recived so many threats by mail that he kept some of them in an envelope labeled “Assassination”.(Holzer “The president is shot” 42) In spite of this, Booth believed that this...
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...Only a few short hours after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, amateur detectives and conspiracy theorists, questioned and debated the proven fact that the sixteenth president of the United States, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. Booth’s plans for the assassination were detailed, his co-conspirators followed-through on their parts of the plot and the escape route was all mapped out. The successful assassination of President Lincoln and escape of John Wilkes Booth, seemed a sure thing, until Booth was trapped in a barn on Garrett’s farm and ultimately shot dead by a Union soldier. Lincoln’s killer, John Wilkes Booth, had several reasons to murder the President on the night of April 14, 1865. According to Historynet:...
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...Only a few short hours after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, amateur detectives and conspiracy theorists, questioned and debated the proven fact that the sixteenth president of the United States, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. Booth’s plans for the assassination were detailed, his co-conspirators followed-through on their parts of the plot and the escape route was all mapped out. The successful assassination of President Lincoln and escape of John Wilkes Booth, seemed a sure thing, until Booth was trapped in a barn on Garrett’s farm and ultimately shot dead by a Union soldier. Lincoln’s killer, John Wilkes Booth, had several reasons to murder the President on the night of April 14, 1865. According to Historynet:...
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...Emotional Appeal and Religious Symbolism in American Film Director/Actor, Robert Redford It can be noted that in the majority of all the films directed by Robert Redford, there is a strong resemblance between the films and the characters he creates. Redford is strongly opinionated on politics and ethical rights. Political and religious symbolism can be found in almost all of his films. One of the most notable hallmarks of Robert Redford’s work, A River Runs Through It, is a profound example of the raw emotion Redford instills within his character that resonates so well with a wide range of audiences. Within the films he directs, Robert Redford’s characters seem to harbor emotions that bleed through the screen and into the viewer’s home because—much like the filmmaker himself—Redford’s films truly wear their heart on their sleeves. The films themselves seem to creep into the audience’s minds, leaving viewers longing for more or to simply be there in that moment feeling just like the characters Redford creates on screen. Born August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, Robert Redford has proved to be one of the greats in American filmmaking; starring in classics such as The Sting and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Robert Redford is also notably known for helping kick-start The Sundance Film Festival in 1978, which has since evolved into one of the film industry's most prominent affairs. However, before experiencing success within the American filmmaking community, Redford...
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