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John Harrison Surratt Jr. (April 13, 1844 – April 21, 1916) was an American Confederate spy who was accused of plotting with John Wilkes Booth to kidnap U.S. President Abraham Lincoln; he was also suspected of involvement in the Abraham Lincoln assassination.
John Michael Weatherly as George Atzerodt, a conspirator; Chris Bauer as Major Smith, a witness for the prosecution; David Andrews as Father Walter, a Roman Catholic priest attending on Mrs. Surratt; James Kirk Sparks as Edman Spangler, one of those charged with conspiracy; John Curran as Major General Albion P. Howe, a member of the military ...
Surratt was the mother of John Surratt, who was later tried in the conspiracy, but was not convicted. Born in Maryland in the 1820s, Surratt converted to Catholicism at a young age and remained a practicing Catholic for the rest of her life. She wed John Harrison Surratt in 1840 and had three children with him.
Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth According to a statement made by associated conspirator George Atzerodt, discovered long after his death and recorded while he was in federal custody on May 1, 1865, Mudd knew in advance about Booth's plans; Atzerodt was sure the doctor knew, he said, because Booth had "sent (as he told me) liquors and provisions ... about two weeks before the murder to Dr ...
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Saturday Night Live’s Donald Trump was resurrected after the former president was found guilty in a high-profile hush-money trial.. Many celebrities, including Robert De Niro, are all reacting ...
Samuel Mudd, the doctor who treated Booth's broken leg on the night Lincoln was killed, and claimed to have no knowledge of the conspiracy, was linked by Weichmann's testimony to the events for which he was tried and found guilty as well. Augustus Howell, a blockade runner who worked with John Surratt, claimed during the trial that Weichmann ...
Sep. 10—A Hampton man who owned three restaurants in New Hampshire and Massachusetts has pleaded guilty to failing to pay nearly $2 million in employment and state and local meals taxes over a ...