Mary opens a boarding house. ... At around 2am on April 15, the Surratt boarding house was visited by members o the District of Columbia police, who were in search of Booth and John Jr.

The April 1865 plot to assassinate President Lincoln was planned in part at a boarding house owned and operated by Mary Surratt. She was tried by a military tribunal where she was not given the ...

President Johnson is said to have described Surratt as having “kept the nest that hatched the rotten egg,” referring to the boarding house, now numbered 604 H St. NW.

Surratt operated a safehouse for Confederate spies in Prince George's County and a boarding house in the District, ... Mary Surratt was arrested as a conspirator in President Lincoln's assassination.

"The Conspirator" by director Robert Redford came in at No. 9 at the box office over the weekend. The film tells the story of Mary Surratt — a boarding house owner who was the lone female ...

Within five hours of the attacks on Lincoln and Seward, federal investigators followed a tip to Mary Surratt’s boarding house. Under questioning, she revealed nothing.

Julia Cowdery gives tours at the Surratt House Museum, Surratt’s country home about 10 miles outside of Washington. Cowdery says Surratt’s son John and his best friend, actor John Wilkes Booth ...

The boarding house of Mary Surratt (left) was used by John Wilkes Booth to plot the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Photograph courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs.. In the ...

The Conspirator centers on the real-life trial of Mary Surratt, who ran a Washington boarding house that was regularly visited by men involved in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Among them ...

On July 7, 1865, Mary Surratt was hanged for complicity in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Whether or not she was guilty of that charge has been debated since that time. Born Mary Elizabeth ...

Mary Surratt was the first woman executed by the US government when she was hanged in 1865 after being found guilty of being a conspirator in the plot to assassinate ...