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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Mary Surratt and Edward Spangler had helped John Wilkes Booth gain entrance to the theater box...”

I didn’t know Mrs. Surratt was that directly involved. I thought she just ran a boarding house where the conspirators met & plotted.

I do remember reading that Pres. Andrew Johnson received many appeals for clemency for Mary Surratt, but that he was adamant, saying “She kept the nest where the egg was hatched”.


22 posted on 07/05/2018 10:10:22 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: elcid1970
nest where the egg was hatched

Great turn of phrase--in the JFK assassination that place would have been CIA HQ.
24 posted on 07/05/2018 10:12:22 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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