In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, the Vice-President, and the Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, 42, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks.
Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer, Frederick Aiken, a 28-year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. As the trial unfolds, Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt, her own son.
A suspenseful thriller with action throughout, The Conspirator tells the true story of a woman who would do anything to protect her family and the man who risked everything to save her.
The National Museum of Crime & Punishment is pleased to partner with The American Film Company to host a temporary exhibit on the upcoming movie The Conspirator
The Conspirator Temporary Exhibit (Jan 2011-May 2011):
Mary Surratt was the first women executed by the United States federal government. She was convicted of taking part in the conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln. This temporary exhibit, sponsored by The American Film Company will review the attack, incarceration and execution of Mary Surratt. The exhibit will feature movie costumes and artifacts.
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The Conspirator Educational Curriculum
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