The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln
Hanged for her role in the murder of President Abraham Lincoln, Mary Surratt gained fame as the first woman ever executed by the federal government. But was she merely a Southern sympathizer, a protective mother, or was she a loathsome co-conspirator? Did she deserve to hang? In her book, The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln, historian Kate Clifford Larson tells the intricate story of the Lincoln assassination conspiracy through the eyes of its only female participant, offering a deeper understanding of Surratt as both a woman and a frequently overlooked person of historical significance. Director Robert Redford turned Surratt’s story into the feature film The Conspirator, which suggested that the flawed process surrounding Surratt’s conviction tainted the result and, ultimately, obscured the truth of what actually happened. Larson argues that Mary Surratt was rightfully convicted of the crime for her willing participation in the most shocking murder in U.S. History.
Presenter: Kate Clifford Larson
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Where did Larson get all her information about Mary Surrat from. What documents support her view that she was guilty.
The Church's teaching on slavery was clear. The 1839 Constitution by Pope Gregory XVI continued the antislavery teaching of his predecessors, and was in the same manner not accepted by many of those bishops, priests and laity for whom it was written. Especially in the southern states.
Pope Gregory XVI condemned slavery in 1838, however many bishops, priests and laity did not accept that decree until a more forceful pronouncement was made in 1888 by Pope Leo XIII. Mary must have been one of those who rejected Pope Greogory's condemnation at the time.
Guilty leave it to Hollywood to lie
I wonder why they never questioned the maid in all this she might have been the killer.
Robert E. Lee released all his slaves before he went to war. The civil war (or better: the war between the states) was not about slavery as we are told today. It was about economy. Lincoln said that if he could preserve the Union without releasing one single slave, he would do it. And if he could preserve the Union by releasing only half of all slaves, he would do that too. And thtat he had never thought of equality of rights for the blacks. The war was completely useless. It cost more than 600.000 lives. And slavery would have been abolished pretty soon without a war. Brazil abolished slavery in 1869. And if there were a USA and a CSA, there would have been no Adolf Hitlere and no Nazi-Germany.
Bla, bla, bla. Mary Surratt was a patsy. The US government played the role of Jack Ruby and whacked her to shut-her-up and keep the Narrative going. The parallels with JFK are endless.
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Mary Surratt was neck deep in the conspiracy, but she was silenced to keep the involvement of the Jesuits and Vatican a secret.