The southern widow's Maryland house was a crucial stop on the escape route for assassin John Wilkes Booth the night he shot the president. Read more about Abraham ...

On March 17, 1865, Surratt, Booth, and other conspirators waited to ambush Lincoln’s carriage as it traveled to the Soldiers’ ...

Two men who prevented Mary Surratt’s daughter ... committed suicide within 18 months. And Lincoln’s own son witnessed President James Garfield’s assassination and was at the same fair ...

At the Surratt trial to-day the Court-room was crowded at an early hour with the expectation that the cross-examination of WEIOHMAN would begin, and that the counsel for the defence would make ...

Documentary giving the background on all of the major players involved in the planning of the assassination of President Lincoln including the investigation and aftermath ...

Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to ...

Surratt introduced Booth to Herold and Azterodt, and conspired with the others to kidnap the president, but was not in Washington several months later when the assassination was carried out.