The Conspirator (2011)
The Conspirator 2010
tells the true story of a woman who is willing to do anything to protect her family, and a man who risks everything to protect her. Following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, seven men and one woman were arrested for conspiracy to assassinate the president, vice president, and secretary of state. The only woman among them is Mary Surratt, the owner of the boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and staged simultaneous attacks. Although the newly minted Frederick Aiken initially reluctantly agrees to defend him in a court-martial, along the way he realizes that his client may be innocent.
tells the true story of a woman who is willing to do anything to protect her family, and a man who risks everything to protect her. Following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, seven men and one woman were arrested for conspiracy to assassinate the president, vice president, and secretary of state. The only woman among them is Mary Surratt, the owner of the boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and staged simultaneous attacks. Although the newly minted Frederick Aiken initially reluctantly agrees to defend him in a court-martial, along the way he realizes that his client may be innocent.
