Elizabeth Kerri Mahon

Cast: James McAvoy as Frederick Aiken Robin Wright as Mary Surratt Evan Rachel Wood as Anna Surratt John Simmons as John Surratt. Toby Kebbell as John Wilkes Booth Tom Wilkinson as Reverdy Johnson, Norman Reedus as Lewis Payne Kevin Kline as Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s secretary of war. Danny Huston as Joseph Holt, the prosecuting attorney. Stephen Root as John W. Lloyd Jonathan Groff as Louis Weichmann Colm Meaney as Maj. Gen. David Hunter Synopsis: In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, eight people are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt (Robin Wright) owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth (Toby Kebbell) and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks. Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, Senator Reverdy Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) who was supposed to defend Mary asks his colleague, the newly-minted lawyer Frederic...

You may not recognize her name but in 1865 everyone knew who Mary Surratt was. She was the only woman implicated in Lincoln’s assassination, and the first woman to be executed by the United States government. But questions still remain as to how much of a role Mary actually played in the conspiracy or if she played a part at all. Was she the “mother of all conspirators,” as the papers claimed? Or was she an innocent woman who was railroaded by the government in their rush to justice? Mary Surratt was born Mary Jenkins in Waterloo, MD in 1823. She grew up around slavery and accepted it as a way of life. Her parents were slave-owners, owning a modest plantation, although her father passed away when she just two years old, leaving her mother to pick up the pieces as best she could. Elizabeth Jenkins didn’t remarry, instead she became a competent manager of the properties that her husband left, actually expanding the holdings considerably. When Mary was sixteen she met John Surratt, who ...