Diners at restaurant where Lincoln assassination was planned think US is as divided now as the Civil War Mary Surratt, the building’s owner, would become the first woman executed by the US ...

Matthew Champagne, the manager of education at the Surratt House Museum in Clinton, Maryland, said the country continues to deal with the fallout of what was plotted at that DC restaurant, which ...

Matthew Champagne, the manager of education at the Surratt House Museum in Clinton, Maryland, said the country continues to deal with the fallout of what was plotted at that DC restaurant, which back ...

John Surratt, John Wilkes Booth, and their other pro-Southern friends would gather at Mary’s boarding house. They hatched a plan to kidnap President Lincoln, but Wilkes Booth decided to ...

Investigators also suspected Mary Surratt was a member of Booth’s group and made several visits to her boarding house in D.C. where Booth and the other suspects had regularly visited.

Weichmann and Surratt really were friends after meeting in a seminary, which led to Weichmann moving into Mary Surratt’s boarding house and sharing a room and bed with John — a common setup ...

The true story of Mary Surratt’s involvement in the conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln Mary Surratt, born in the early 1820s, was a widow who owned a boarding house in Washington DC. She had moved ...

Mary Surratt kept a boarding house in Washington DC where John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators met to plan the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln (Image: Getty Images) ...

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 President Abraham Lincoln ...

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 ...

September 23, 2011 Mary Surratt was one of four people executed for conspiring to kill Lincoln. Some historians have debated her innocence of guilty. Surratt owned a boarding house where the ...