- Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.
- 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.—Anonymous
- The Conspirator is the true story of Mary Surratt, the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.—Production
- One aspect of the aftermath of the assassination of US President Abraham Lincoln is dramatized. Immediately after the fact, the authorities learn that despite the Civil War having officially ended, the assassination was only part of a larger "southern" conspiracy also to assassinate Vice-President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward. Most of the proverbial "shooters" are also known in not hiding their identities in the attempts. While Lincoln's assassin, actor John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, is assassinated himself shortly thereafter, several others are arrested including one female, Mary Surratt, in whose boarding house the other conspirators often met. In the military trial of which Surratt is a part, Maryland Senator Reverdy Johnson is assigned her attorney. Feeling unable to try the case himself, Johnson in turn assigns the case to his underling, a reluctant Frederick Aiken, who, as a previous Union soldier, does not want to defend someone who conspired to kill for the rights that he fought for. Surratt is indeed a proud southerner but an even more protective mother. Given a possible out by Johnson from trying the case which does take a toll on his personal life for defending someone like Surratt, Aiken begins to have doubts as to her guilt and begins to believe that she is being used as a surrogate for her son, John Surratt, the true criminal who has gone into hiding, especially problematic as the proceedings are stacked against Surratt and thus by association him as Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton wants to find her guilty, true guilt or not, in the absence of her son solely for the sake of national peace.—Huggo
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