Summary: Mary Surratt is often called the first women tried and executed by the US Government for her role in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States and the first president assassinated in America. A devout Catholic with extreme convictions about religion and the “southern way of life," Surratt was a strong, protective, and unrelenting businesswoman and mother. And yet, her convictions of life ran so deep that she and one of her sons became entangled in espionage and the plot to kidnap and eventually assassinate Abraham Lincoln. The story of Mary and her involvement in the plot is a fascinating exercise in contradiction. Click here to play the chickcast.Subscribe via Itunes.Download an mp3 or other formats here. Map of the Lincoln Assassinators Hornet's Nest View Lincoln Assassinators Hornet's Nest in a larger map Further Resources New York Times archived article, July 7, 1865 - Description of Execution Surratt House Museum, Clinton, MD Online Exhibition on the Conspirators, Smithsonian American History Museum Video Kate Clifford Larson on Mary Surratt at the US National Archives Further Reading The Assassin's Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln, by Kate Clifford Larson Mary Surratt: An American Tragedy, by Elizabeth Steger Trindal
