    
Title: Washington, D.C., Boarding House Where the Conspirators Met Description: The Washington, D.C., boarding house owned by Mary E. Surratt (Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt; May/June 1834-July 7, 1865), where the conspirators met to plan the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (February 25, 1809-April 15, 1865), sixteenth President of the U.S. (1861-1865); he was shot by American stage actor John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838-April 26, 1865) in Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865, shortly after the end of the American Civil War (1861-1865); Mary Surratt, at the age of forty-eight, received the death sentence by hanging even though a trial had not established her guilt; she became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government; she was the mother of another of the conspirators, John Surratt (April 13, 1844-April 21, 1916), who was accused of plotting to kidnap and assassinate Lincoln; he fled the country after Lincoln's murder but was later extradited and the statute of limitations had expired on most of the charges against him so he was not brought to trial; Category: Political Figures Topic: U.S. Presidents Subject: Abraham Lincoln Keywords: American Civil War (1861-1865), assassinations, boarding houses, hangings, presidents of the U.S., U.S. presidents. Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1800 x 2737 (4.93 MPixels) (1.52) Print Size: 15.2 x 23.2 cm; 6.0 x 9.1 inches File Size: 14.12 MB (14,807,730 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000530656 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
