SEASON 2

EPISODE 18

WHO WAS MARY ELIZABETH SURRATT, AND WHY WAS SHE THE FIRST WOMAN EXECUTED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT?

Hello Everyone. And, in particular, all you women listening. Today I have a big question for you. But, before you listen to this broadcast, you should read my novel, or after listening, go and read it before you give me a more informed answer about MARY ELIZABETH SURRATT, this podcast's subject matter.

We have all heard the name John Wilkes Booth many times growing up and taking history classes in school. It is a name our teachers highlight and discuss in those classes all day long in school, but little is taught or discussed about the 300+ other people who were thrown in the "clinker" with ties to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Then, a final decision was made on who to try in court and all the powerful generals and colonels for the North were assigned to listen to the case and decide who was to be punished. But before I begin my story, I would like to ask an important question to all women listening if they were in high school in the 1950s? Then, how many women listening were in high school in the 1960s?

Mary Elizabeth Surratt was executed by the U.S. government for her role as a conspirator in Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Available for review was the entire transcript of the trial from where the story in the fifth novel of the Lincoln Assassination Series was developed. Remember in earlier broadcasts how I have used my genealogy research of behavior patterns to draw a conclusion of what kind of person I was researching. Well, the story of Mary Elizabeth Surratt was no different. When I was finished, I must say that she was not guilty. But, that is my opinion only and I have given it lots of thought of the times and women's rights, which by the way were few and far between in 1865, no matter what the color of one's skin was. See my two-novel historical romance with a setting in the Civil War. It is called “I Am Woman.”

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