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The Conspirator

film by Redford [2010]
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The film "The Conspirator" (2010) by Robert Redford focuses on the trial of Mary Surratt, a boardinghouse operator convicted of conspiracy in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Surratt's boardinghouse in Washington, D.C., was a meeting place for John Wilkes Booth and other Confederate sympathizers involved in a plot that evolved from kidnapping Lincoln to assassinating him.1

Surratt, along with three others, was sentenced to death by a military commission, despite her claims of innocence and some recommendations for a lesser sentence. Historians continue to debate her level of knowledge and guilt regarding the assassination plot.12

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