Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt hanging from the gallows at Fort McNair, Washington D.C., July 7, 1865. They had been convicted of being part of the conspiracy which resulted in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865.
Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt hanging from the gallows at Fort McNair, Washington D.C., July 7, 1865. They had been convicted of being part of the conspiracy which resulted in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865.
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