In his new film, “The Conspirator,” Robert Redford digs into a little-known angle of one of the best known moments in American history: the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Instead of dealing with the shooting in the Ford Theatre in Washington, Redford takes aim at a back story to the 1865 assassination of the president – a complex plot that resulted in seven men and one woman being arrested and charged with conspiring to kill Lincoln, the vice president, and the secretary of state. Redford’s film centers around Mary Surratt, played by Robin Wright, and the defense by young lawyer Frederick Aiken, played by James McAvoy. Surratt owned a boarding house where assassin John Wilkes Booth and others planned the multiple attacks. She was the first woman executed by the U.S. government.
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