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FIRST WOMAN EXECUTED BY THE U.S.

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Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt
(1820 or May 1823 – July 7, 1865)

Mary Surratt was executed by the U.S. government for her
role as a conspirator in
Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.

Surratt, who owned a tavern in Surrattsville (now Clinton),
Maryland, had to convert her row house in Washington, D.C.,
into a boardinghouse as a result of financial difficulties.

Located a few blocks from Ford’s Theatre, where Lincoln
was murdered, this house served as the place where a
group of Confederate supporters, including
John Wilkes
Booth
, conspired to assassinate the president. It was
Surratt’s association with Booth that ultimately led to her
conviction, though debate continues as to the extent of
her involvement and whether it really warranted so harsh
a sentence.


April 14, 1865: President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Threatre

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A newspaper drawing of Surratt receiving comfort
from one of the priests permitted to visit her in her
prison cell.

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Aftermath of the execution of Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell,
David Herold, and George Atzerodt on July 7, 1865.


Surratt’s boarding house, c. 1890, little changed
from how it looked during her occupancy.


Surratt’s boarding house, which now houses a restaurant,
is in the
Chinatown neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY IN 1968

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This Day in History – June 5, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy
was assassinated in the Ambassador Hotel by 24-year-old
Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. He was shot in the head and died
early the next morning.

    
     
 


Robert F Kennedy Assassination Pictures (1968)
Kennedy delivered remarks to a crowd in the
Ambassador
Hotel
moments before the assassination.

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RFK killer denied parole for 15th time

Famous U.S. political assassinations and plots throughout history - slide 2 - NY Daily News

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Robert F. Kennedy’s grave in Arlington National Cemetery.

    
    

        
        
        
        
       

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AN ASSASSINATION ON THIS DAY IN 1968

How MLK’s death affected a nation, as told by those who remember it - Los Angeles Times

Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was
fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-
story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis,
Tennessee.

The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation
workers’ strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet
struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was
pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He
was 39 years old.

The Assassination of Martin Luther King

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Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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Film director, writer, producer, and actor Quentin Tarantino
is 60 years old today.

Tarantino’s work has been subject to controversy and 
has garnered a
cult following, as well as critical and
commercial success. He has received two Academy
Awards and four Golden Globes.



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BAND MEMBER KILLED ON THIS DAY IN 1980

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John Lennon, a former member of the Beatles, the rock group
that transformed popular music in
the 1960s, was shot and
killed by an obsessed fan in
New York City
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The 40-year-old artist was entering his luxury Manhattan
apartment building when Mark David Chapman shot him
four times at close range with a .38-caliber revolver. Lennon,
bleeding profusely, died on the way to the  hospital.

Chapman had received an autograph from Lennon earlier in
the day and voluntarily remained at the scene of the shooting
until he was arrested by police.

For a week, hundreds of bereaved fans kept a vigil outside the
Dakota–Lennon’s apartment building–and demonstrations of
mourning were held around the world.      

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