[Verginius Rufus]

The conspirators, including Mary Surratt, were hanged on July 7, 1865. Mary Surratt's son John Surratt, Jr., escaped to Canada and then to Europe. He served in the army of the Papal States for a while (he was a Catholic--both of his parents were Catholic converts) but was eventually brought back to the US and tried--but acquitted. He claimed only to know of a plot to kidnap Lincoln, not to kill him. He lived until 1916.

If Lincoln had been a Catholic maybe he would have gone to church rather than to see a comedy in the theater...it was Good Friday.

[rlmorel]

LOL...

While I was in my sophomore year, I went out for a short period of time with a girl named "Mary Mudd" and it turned out she was the great, great granddaughter or a great, great, great granddaughter of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was imprisoned for setting the leg of Booth.

He did get pardoned, but his conviction was never overturned.

[Rinnwald]

If Lincoln had been a Catholic maybe he would have gone to church rather than to see a comedy in the theater...it was Good Friday.

Maybe he would have gone to church in Illinois, where his law practice was located. He would not have been elected president.