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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.
Mary Jenkins met John Harrison Surratt in 1839, when she was 16 or 19 and he was 26. [14] [16] [17] His family had settled in Maryland in the late 1600s.[14] [16] An orphan, he was adopted by Richard and Sarah Neale of Washington, D.C., a wealthy couple who owned a farm.
Johnny Simmons as John Surratt, Mary Surratt's son [10] Toby Kebbell as John Wilkes Booth, the man who assassinates Lincoln. Norman Reedus as Lewis Payne, the man who attempts to assassinate William H. Seward; John Cullum as Andrew Wylie, a judge of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia who reluctantly signs Aiken's writ to retry Marry ...
John Surratt collapsed suddenly and died on either August 25 [19] [20] or August 26 [21] [22] in 1862 (sources differ as to the date). The cause of death was a stroke. [13] [20] [23] Mary Surratt struggled with running the farm, tavern, and other businesses without the help of her son, John Surratt Jr. [24] In the fall of 1864, she began considering moving to her townhouse at 541 H Street [25 ...
Mary Surratt, the building’s owner, would become the first woman executed by the US federal government Diners at restaurant where Lincoln assassination was planned think US is as divided now as ...
Because she was found guilty of complicity in the Lincoln assassination, Mary Surratt was hanged at the Capitol Prison in Washington D.C., on 7 July 1865. (Her house is now the Surratt House Museum, with a focus on the assassination.) The U.S. Post Office renamed the town Robeystown, due to the notoriety of the Surratt name, and in keeping with ...
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
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