The Conspirator (2010) on Netflix
PG-1320102h 2mCrimeDramaHistory
Mary Surratt, who owns the Washington boarding house where the plotters met, is charged in Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Frederick Aiken, a Union veteran, reluctantly agrees to defend her.
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After Abraham Lincoln is shot at Ford's Theater and dies the next morning, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton orders suspects arrested, and eight people are charged in the conspiracy. Mary Surratt, who kept a Washington boarding house where John Wilkes Booth met with other plotters, is the only woman charged. Maryland Senator Reverdy Johnson is named as her defense attorney, but he says that as a Southerner he cannot take the case and asks Frederick Aiken, a Northern lawyer and Union veteran, to defend her before a military tribunal.
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Mary Surratt, the only female conspirator charged in the Abraham Lincoln assassination, was the first woman to be executed by the US federal government.- Mary Surratt's farmhouse in Clinton, Maryland is now a museum. The town around it was originally called Surrattsville, until the United States Post Office renamed it Robeysville because of the notoriety of the Surratt name; in 1879 it was renamed again, as Clinton.
