Mary was innocent she was only guilty of being the Mother and running a boarding house, even when I was visiting all these places I couldn't believe she was involved in this, when I saw the now infamous picture of all them hanging it just makes me sick that they would do this to a women!!!
@Ilovedthe70s76 How bout it makes you sick that YankeeDumb would do this to anyone? Say Henry Wirz?, where there were those Yankees who testified against him but were never prisoners of Andersonville.? Didn't matter....he hanged also.
The whole trail was a lynch mob! My God! Hanging a women back in the 1800's was never heard of. The prosecution tampered with the Defense witnesses, she didn't have a chance and the having it in a Military Court well they just might as well not even had a trial, she was already tried and convicted before the trial began!!! I'm a huge Lincoln buff and Civil War buff I've been to every single place of his Assassination, birth place all the way to his final resting place the Tomb.
The first plan was to KIDNAP the President and when that failed the next plan was then to kill the President, Mary didn't know about about the second plan she only knew about the kidnapping that is what she is only guilty of, not the conspiracy to Kill Lincoln.
There is much info about Mary Surratt on Wikipedia for anyone interested. So far as her sympathies lie, the Surratt's had slaves, her son John Jr. was a confederate spy, Isaac Surratt left Maryland and joined the Confederate Army in Texas, the conspiracy was planned in her tavern, and "Booth had paid for the rental of the carriage which took Surratt to Surrattsville each time, and Bingham said this was evidence that Surratt's trips were critical to the conspiracy."-Wikipedia
route .. her daughter Anna SAID he was there that night- Wiechman was with her at Surratsville when he heard her tell Lloyd to ' have those shooting irons ready tonight because someone will be coming to get them" This was testified to by both Weichman & Lloyd at the trial. The defense tried to discredit them but could not because of all the evidence, police reports, and other witnesses verifying they were telling the truth in all matters relating to the case... innocent? No...
frequent visitor there and had even stayed there. He came there to seek out Mes. Surratt, because he knew it to be the only place he could find safe haven for himself. Now why do you think he would think that ? Hello?! Anybody home out there? That ALONE pretty much says it aside from all the other testimony from Lloyd & L Weichman. She had a meeting with Booth that evening before the assasination ( He was there to make sure she had told Lloyd to have the guns ready that night on the escape
One of the conspirators , Lewis Payne ( Powell), who was responsible for the attempted murder of Seward , came to the boarding house after hiding in a cemetery for 2 days, knowing he was being searched for, but was caught by surprize when the police opened the door. He asked for Mrs Surratt and her response to the police was" I have never seen this man before in my life" Her own DAUGHTER Anna and all the residents of the boarding house testified he had been there numerous times and was a..
One of the conspirators , Lewis Payne ( Powell), who was responsible for the attempted murder of Seward , came to the boarding house after hiding in a cemetery for 2 days, knowing he was being searched for, but was caught by surprize when the police opened the door. He asked for Mrs Surratt and her response to the police was" I have never seen this man before in my life" Her own DAUGHTER Anna and all the residents of the boarding house testified he had been there numerous times and was a..
@hannah14ization I was going to see what became of her children, where did they go after she was executed? Who raised them? How did you discover your family connection? I believe that she should not have been hung, regardless.
Mary Surratt was held prisoner as a tool to lure in her son John Surratt, who was hiding in England.
When Southern women and many others protested the U.S. Gov'ts railroading of her by false testimonies and fabricated witnesses, they used her as an example to southern women who were considered "belligerents", just as all captured confederate prisoners were called.
She was convicted unconstitutionally as a civilian by a military court.
Please tell me exactly what false testimonies and which fabricated witnesses you are referring to and I will try my best to answer your charges that she was "railroaded". I have studied the trials,manuscripts , police interrogations and the history of this extensively. Thanks!
@sisco249 How noble a statement. ALL TRAITORS! should be put to death, along with their decendants. How dare they stand up for their pathetic cause! Damn them ALL! Each year we embrace treason(as a Nation) on July 4th. Their decendents should burn in a lake of fire for their crimes against this virgin nation to be exsponged with blood. Too Hell with that Bitch Betsy Ross. Fuck Ben Franklin for making his wealth through the confines of slaves. Sly bastard!
I remember wandering through her house one afternoon in 1967 while playing hooky. The place was often left open and vacant with only the occasional tenants who never stayed long (I wonder why?).
I believe it will open your eyes a great deal... I hate the idea of a woman being brutally hung, but if she was guilty( and she WAS) then she got what she deserved.
I have not seen Chris Kings movie, but I hope he keeps it factual, as well as I hope Robert Redford will keep it factual with his blockbuster release April15th, but I have already seen the trailer and scenes and it looks like they are going to portray her as an innocent old woman and she was NOT... look up all historical resources..
Please everyone.... couple of resources for you that include the actual police and military interrogations and court proceedings of Mary Surratt and the other conspirators ... 'The Assassin's Accomplice' Kate Clifford Larson ( in which she states she STARTED the book project and her research with the idea Mary Surratt was not guilty) ' A True Story of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Conspiracy of 1865' by Lewis Weichmann ( he lived in the Surratt boarding house) PLEASE read..
It was a pretty over the top statement for him to make, but what he meant was there were many, many
Confederate sympathizing ( and not necessarily all from the south)women spies that caused( directly and indirectly) the death of many Union soldiers and military personal and they should be tried and punished for their crimes just like the men were..
sorry Jiaim 123, wrong quote- I just watched the beginning of this- I was referring to his quote that there should have been a lot more women hanged for their crimes during the conflict- She kept the nest that hatched the Egg refers to her owning of the boarding house in which Booth, her son and all the conspirators all met and 'hatched' their plans against Lincoln, and the idea that she was completely knowledgable of the entire conspiracy and actively took part in it...
That poor woman. she was innocent. I am fascinated by her story and I could almost feel a glimpse of the fear she must have felt before being executed....and that glimpse was terrible.........
@rndmwhitekid really????? HOw do you know? If its true please tell me....and dont lie. I am so fascinated by her tragic life and end.......I just ordered a book. I did not even know her name a few months ago.
This is so amazing to me. My last name is Surratt and we just finished tracing through our ancestry. It's great to finally be able to know who we're related to. And what's even better is there's also a book about her.
Right, their feet were not bare. But, I guess, their shoes were removed with the feet chains (see also the description von Suratt's hanging on wikipedia). You can find some good pics on the web about the hanging. On some, i presume, the men's bright stockinged feet are visible. The woman's feet are hidden by her long skirt. It seems to me that all the condemed hanged with stockinged feet.
What an American story that this film seems to tell us for the first time. The few, slient moments from the film caught in this video appear to capture the story without the words -- I can't wait to see the movie.
The way she died makes her immortal. Her name will live forever in Americana.
LeMightySabre 3 months ago
Mary was innocent she was only guilty of being the Mother and running a boarding house, even when I was visiting all these places I couldn't believe she was involved in this, when I saw the now infamous picture of all them hanging it just makes me sick that they would do this to a women!!!
Ilovedthe70s76 4 months ago
@Ilovedthe70s76 How bout it makes you sick that YankeeDumb would do this to anyone? Say Henry Wirz?, where there were those Yankees who testified against him but were never prisoners of Andersonville.? Didn't matter....he hanged also.
MrKe4bss 4 months ago
The whole trail was a lynch mob! My God! Hanging a women back in the 1800's was never heard of. The prosecution tampered with the Defense witnesses, she didn't have a chance and the having it in a Military Court well they just might as well not even had a trial, she was already tried and convicted before the trial began!!! I'm a huge Lincoln buff and Civil War buff I've been to every single place of his Assassination, birth place all the way to his final resting place the Tomb.
Ilovedthe70s76 4 months ago
The first plan was to KIDNAP the President and when that failed the next plan was then to kill the President, Mary didn't know about about the second plan she only knew about the kidnapping that is what she is only guilty of, not the conspiracy to Kill Lincoln.
Ilovedthe70s76 4 months ago
She was convicted unconstitutionally as a civilian by a military court.
genevacheerleader02 6 months ago 4
There is much info about Mary Surratt on Wikipedia for anyone interested. So far as her sympathies lie, the Surratt's had slaves, her son John Jr. was a confederate spy, Isaac Surratt left Maryland and joined the Confederate Army in Texas, the conspiracy was planned in her tavern, and "Booth had paid for the rental of the carriage which took Surratt to Surrattsville each time, and Bingham said this was evidence that Surratt's trips were critical to the conspiracy."-Wikipedia
clintonearlwalker 7 months ago
route .. her daughter Anna SAID he was there that night- Wiechman was with her at Surratsville when he heard her tell Lloyd to ' have those shooting irons ready tonight because someone will be coming to get them" This was testified to by both Weichman & Lloyd at the trial. The defense tried to discredit them but could not because of all the evidence, police reports, and other witnesses verifying they were telling the truth in all matters relating to the case... innocent? No...
kcdkplays 7 months ago
frequent visitor there and had even stayed there. He came there to seek out Mes. Surratt, because he knew it to be the only place he could find safe haven for himself. Now why do you think he would think that ? Hello?! Anybody home out there? That ALONE pretty much says it aside from all the other testimony from Lloyd & L Weichman. She had a meeting with Booth that evening before the assasination ( He was there to make sure she had told Lloyd to have the guns ready that night on the escape
kcdkplays 7 months ago
One of the conspirators , Lewis Payne ( Powell), who was responsible for the attempted murder of Seward , came to the boarding house after hiding in a cemetery for 2 days, knowing he was being searched for, but was caught by surprize when the police opened the door. He asked for Mrs Surratt and her response to the police was" I have never seen this man before in my life" Her own DAUGHTER Anna and all the residents of the boarding house testified he had been there numerous times and was a..
kcdkplays 7 months ago
One of the conspirators , Lewis Payne ( Powell), who was responsible for the attempted murder of Seward , came to the boarding house after hiding in a cemetery for 2 days, knowing he was being searched for, but was caught by surprize when the police opened the door. He asked for Mrs Surratt and her response to the police was" I have never seen this man before in my life" Her own DAUGHTER Anna and all the residents of the boarding house testified he had been there numerous times and was a..
kcdkplays 7 months ago
Guilty as charged.
deadly0001 7 months ago
hi im Hannah Surratt. Mary was my ancestor from my father's side and yes I do believe she is innocent!
hannah14ization 7 months ago 4
@hannah14ization That is because She was innocent! But Not during the time of Supreme YankeeDumb!
MrKe4bss 4 months ago
@hannah14ization I was going to see what became of her children, where did they go after she was executed? Who raised them? How did you discover your family connection? I believe that she should not have been hung, regardless.
Miss65boo 3 months ago
Mary Surratt was held prisoner as a tool to lure in her son John Surratt, who was hiding in England.
When Southern women and many others protested the U.S. Gov'ts railroading of her by false testimonies and fabricated witnesses, they used her as an example to southern women who were considered "belligerents", just as all captured confederate prisoners were called.
She was convicted unconstitutionally as a civilian by a military court.
kennyLLC 8 months ago 2
@kennyLLC
Please tell me exactly what false testimonies and which fabricated witnesses you are referring to and I will try my best to answer your charges that she was "railroaded". I have studied the trials,manuscripts , police interrogations and the history of this extensively. Thanks!
kcdkplays 8 months ago
Way to go Yankeedumb....murder a woman to defend your Yankee honor!?
ke4bss 10 months ago
she and all the other confederate pieces of human scum...deserved to be tortured to death! All of them...TRAITORS!!!
sisco249 10 months ago
@sisco249 How noble a statement. ALL TRAITORS! should be put to death, along with their decendants. How dare they stand up for their pathetic cause! Damn them ALL! Each year we embrace treason(as a Nation) on July 4th. Their decendents should burn in a lake of fire for their crimes against this virgin nation to be exsponged with blood. Too Hell with that Bitch Betsy Ross. Fuck Ben Franklin for making his wealth through the confines of slaves. Sly bastard!
ke4bss 10 months ago
@sisco249 Mary Surratt was INNOCENT, and eve if she was guilty, who are you to decide wether she deserved to die?!
sgauden02 7 months ago
let us hear no more of them
stardaddyo9 10 months ago
I remember wandering through her house one afternoon in 1967 while playing hooky. The place was often left open and vacant with only the occasional tenants who never stayed long (I wonder why?).
hiwaypoet 11 months ago
Hollywood strikes again....
kcdkplays 1 year ago
I believe it will open your eyes a great deal... I hate the idea of a woman being brutally hung, but if she was guilty( and she WAS) then she got what she deserved.
I have not seen Chris Kings movie, but I hope he keeps it factual, as well as I hope Robert Redford will keep it factual with his blockbuster release April15th, but I have already seen the trailer and scenes and it looks like they are going to portray her as an innocent old woman and she was NOT... look up all historical resources..
kcdkplays 1 year ago
Please everyone.... couple of resources for you that include the actual police and military interrogations and court proceedings of Mary Surratt and the other conspirators ... 'The Assassin's Accomplice' Kate Clifford Larson ( in which she states she STARTED the book project and her research with the idea Mary Surratt was not guilty) ' A True Story of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Conspiracy of 1865' by Lewis Weichmann ( he lived in the Surratt boarding house) PLEASE read..
kcdkplays 1 year ago
what does Andrew Johnson's quote mean??
Jjaim123 1 year ago
@Jjaim123
It was a pretty over the top statement for him to make, but what he meant was there were many, many
Confederate sympathizing ( and not necessarily all from the south)women spies that caused( directly and indirectly) the death of many Union soldiers and military personal and they should be tried and punished for their crimes just like the men were..
kcdkplays 1 year ago
@Jjaim123
sorry Jiaim 123, wrong quote- I just watched the beginning of this- I was referring to his quote that there should have been a lot more women hanged for their crimes during the conflict- She kept the nest that hatched the Egg refers to her owning of the boarding house in which Booth, her son and all the conspirators all met and 'hatched' their plans against Lincoln, and the idea that she was completely knowledgable of the entire conspiracy and actively took part in it...
kcdkplays 1 year ago
murdered she was murdered by the white trash
VampiresBiteHard666 1 year ago
That poor woman. she was innocent. I am fascinated by her story and I could almost feel a glimpse of the fear she must have felt before being executed....and that glimpse was terrible.........
italoluder 1 year ago
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sgauden 1 year ago
@italoluder I personally believe she shouldn't have been executed. I still unsure of her innocence, but I'm
not convinced she was guilty either. This new movie coming "The Conspirator" about this story should be great.
sgauden 1 year ago
My great, great, great, great, great Grandmother is Mary Surratt. Not kidding.
rndmwhitekid 1 year ago
@rndmwhitekid really????? HOw do you know? If its true please tell me....and dont lie. I am so fascinated by her tragic life and end.......I just ordered a book. I did not even know her name a few months ago.
italoluder 1 year ago
@italoluder My uncle traced our "family tree" back as far as he could, it took him several months, but eventually he came across Mary Surratt
rndmwhitekid 1 year ago
@rndmwhitekid She's my great, great, great, great, great Aunt.
tastygingerale 1 year ago
It really IS a pity they hung this individual.
She should have been drawn and quartered and fed to the local swine. Her, the other assholes and that lying bastard, Dr. Mudd.
oysterjoe 1 year ago
This is so amazing to me. My last name is Surratt and we just finished tracing through our ancestry. It's great to finally be able to know who we're related to. And what's even better is there's also a book about her.
blahgayblahgay13 1 year ago
I am currently a teacher at Surrattsville High School in Clinton, MD.
radar98 1 year ago
looks pretty cool, but the condemned were not barefooted on the scaffold. Artistic license I suppose. Still, looks visually very nice.
InitialNoticeBlack 2 years ago 2
Right, their feet were not bare. But, I guess, their shoes were removed with the feet chains (see also the description von Suratt's hanging on wikipedia). You can find some good pics on the web about the hanging. On some, i presume, the men's bright stockinged feet are visible. The woman's feet are hidden by her long skirt. It seems to me that all the condemed hanged with stockinged feet.
youfulwatching 1 year ago
I come down the line of Surratts. My last name isnt Surratt, but my moms maiden name is Surratt.
sportsLover127 2 years ago
@sportsLover127
you help booth u jerk. without ur family there's a chance that lichon can be alive!
AMGproducton 2 years ago
@AMGproduction
um i wasnt alive when this happened so you need to shut up.... thanks.
sportsLover127 2 years ago
@sportsLover127
i ment ur ansetors not u
AMGproducton 2 years ago
AMGpriduction
o well okk
sportsLover127 2 years ago
@AMGproduction
oh and i couldnt of done anyhtthing. so why did you say that? i dont know why she did it? how am i am jerk?
sportsLover127 2 years ago
Visually stunning...a film in the truest sense of the word. Well done.
natedarling70 2 years ago
I got tears and chills watching the trailer.
Beautifully done Watermark Film Folks.
May the film bring much success!
kwish2009 2 years ago 2
Few film makers are able to capture history in such a beautiful and honest way while maintaining relevance for contemporary audiences. Bravo!
flyboy9480 2 years ago
A truly unique view of one of the most tragic assassinations in our country's history. WELL DONE Chris and Heather and the Watermark crew!
MrThelove7 2 years ago 2
The film looks wonderful, and if history proves Chris' work....this movie should be artistically and sensitively done.
Atheria444 2 years ago 2
What an American story that this film seems to tell us for the first time. The few, slient moments from the film caught in this video appear to capture the story without the words -- I can't wait to see the movie.
MangoPeople1 2 years ago 2
Beautifully photographed and directed..Professionally acted. Riveting . story.
suevonswan 2 years ago 2