What Role She Played In Mary Surratt's Assassination

Mary Surratt and the Cold Role She Played in Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination Over 150 years ago a lady named Mary Surratt and a couple of other conspirators were executed for the assassination of our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. Mary was thought to have delivered guns to a man named Lloyd as well as many other things. It is a huge debate to this day whether or not Mary was involved in the act and whether or not she should have been executed. Mary definitely was! Mary should have been executed by the U.S. Federal Government (which she was) even though she didn’t shoot Lincoln,but helped John Wilkes Booth do it. First, Mary lied a ton to people and the media. Second, Surratt’s family had a bad record on themselves for things they did in the past. Mary, when questioned, lied to media and people about her role in Lincoln’s assassination. In the text Major H.W. Smith asks Surratt if she knew a man that stood before her because the man that stood before her had claimed that …show more content…
This could be true but in the text Mary claims she does not know the man Lewis Paine, that stood before her. It is true that Mary also had poor eyesight as well. However, following that it says, “ It was a silly lie.’’(source 2)It also says, “ how could she not know someone who was a frequent visitor and sometime border?”(source 2) If Mary was scared and startled by the two men showing up at her door, she would be scared and in shock. But Mary nonchalantly replied to them. Seems pretty fishy to me! Also, the man who was told to “dig a gutter” for Mary didn’t have anything against Mary. What I am saying is he wouldn’t randomly tell a lie that Mary supposedly told him to dig a gutter for her. He would have been telling the truth and feeling kind of different when Mary told him to do it. Why wouldn’t Mary just tell the truth if she knew she was 100% innocent? She was obviously