LINCOLN The Conspirator Movie
The Conspirator Movie
Key Notes
The film starts out at Ford’s theater, downtown D.C. where President Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward are attending a play.
Lewis Powell and David herald try to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward, but are unsuccessful and only stab him and his son.
George Atzerodt was to kill the vice president but we seem George at the bar taking shots, not being able to carry it out and walks out of the theater.
This is where we see John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln from behind about four feet away. Jumping down from the balcony onto the stage saying "Sic semper tyranis!" as he ran off; That means "Thus always to tyrants!"
The film moves to Mary Surratt being put on trial for housing these assassins in her boarding house. Her son John Surratt escapes from the investigation going on. Frederick Aiken a lawyer is assigned to represent Mary Surratt in the trail, which, even he believes she is guilty. This trail is a Military tribunal. The impact of Lincoln’s assassination is leaving the nation struggling to find justice and wanting the people affiliated with his death killed.
There is very little evidence presented to find her 100% guilty.
Mary Surratt does not want to make her son look like a bad man, but saying this could show people she is not the one who is guilty but it’s her son. She only says they were not planning on killing Lincoln but kidnaping him and her son left the house three weeks before Lincoln’s death.
The lesson in the movie is about the Right to a Fair Trial and the right of due process and equal representation before the law as a basic human and constitutional right. But we see in a Military tribunal these can be ignored.
In this military tribunal of 10 officers listening to this case, only 4 find her guilty to be ‘hanged by the neck till dead’. The Attorney General thinks the country needs to see her still put to justice.
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Key Notes
The film starts out at Ford’s theater, downtown D.C. where President Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward are attending a play.
Lewis Powell and David herald try to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward, but are unsuccessful and only stab him and his son.
George Atzerodt was to kill the vice president but we seem George at the bar taking shots, not being able to carry it out and walks out of the theater.
This is where we see John Wilkes Booth kill Lincoln from behind about four feet away. Jumping down from the balcony onto the stage saying "Sic semper tyranis!" as he ran off; That means "Thus always to tyrants!"
The film moves to Mary Surratt being put on trial for housing these assassins in her boarding house. Her son John Surratt escapes from the investigation going on. Frederick Aiken a lawyer is assigned to represent Mary Surratt in the trail, which, even he believes she is guilty. This trail is a Military tribunal. The impact of Lincoln’s assassination is leaving the nation struggling to find justice and wanting the people affiliated with his death killed.
There is very little evidence presented to find her 100% guilty.
Mary Surratt does not want to make her son look like a bad man, but saying this could show people she is not the one who is guilty but it’s her son. She only says they were not planning on killing Lincoln but kidnaping him and her son left the house three weeks before Lincoln’s death.
The lesson in the movie is about the Right to a Fair Trial and the right of due process and equal representation before the law as a basic human and constitutional right. But we see in a Military tribunal these can be ignored.
In this military tribunal of 10 officers listening to this case, only 4 find her guilty to be ‘hanged by the neck till dead’. The Attorney General thinks the country needs to see her still put to justice.
Her