This had a lot of lost cause feeling to it to be honest. The score made them out to be sympathetic. A shame, it was shot pretty well and the actors did a good job but yeah, incredibly inaccurate.
Yes she thought she was going to be pardoned and actually fainted on the scaffold. The film has the men stressed and frightened but the strong independent woman who don't need no man was stoic and brave. 'The Message' 😂
I feel the same about the film made of Albert Pierrepoint, the UK executioner. The film made him out to be a meek, uncertain, shy man. Those of us that knew him can say categorically that nothing could be further from the truth.
Notable little detail: Mary Surratt's noose has fewer twists in it than the traditional thirteen. According to a documentary I asked my grandparents to record (and I subsequently wore the tape out), the hangman tied hers last the night before, he was tired, his fingers hurt, and he was certain that she'd have her sentence commuted to imprisonment. So he stopped after a handful of twists. I believe that the rope is still in a museum.
@Fat12219 If you're expressing incredulity toward the assumption that she'd have been imprisoned rather than executed, she was the first woman executed by the federal government. So there was no precedent up to that point, and it was a fair assumption to make.
With a long drop, the knot usually goes to the side so that the force breaks neck sideway. But from what I can see in this scene, (and the original photographs of the event) the knot is at the back of the head, which risks the rope will tighten around the throat and muscles, so not breaking the spine. A much more length and painful death.
@@stevenhodgson834 Long drop hanging in the UK wasn't introduced until the 1870s so this may well be the case. There are reports here of people's friends pulling on their legs so that they would die more quickly especially if the person was of slim build.
There is video somewhere of some of the Nuremberg executions, where it could be seen that Woods was still placing the knot at the back of the neck. He did have a reputation for sadism. Those US jurisdictions which still use hanging are still doing it this way and still using the traditional slipknot, whereas the British changed to a metal eyelet many decades before abolition.
Quite a few errors in fact, several already mentioned. One quite important one was that Mary Surratt was extremely sickly and somewhat infirm by the time of the execution and she could not climb the steps unaided and it took some time to get her up onto the scaffold!
@@GenXerInMexico And give the terrorists 85 billion dollars worth of our military equipment and let millions and millions of illegals and drug smugglers over our border.
Mrs. Surratt didn't deserve to hang. It's very doubtful she knew much, if anything, about the conspiracy. Her son was a different story- he escaped to Europe and avoided punishment.
@Clonetrooper1139 I'm not saying she's completely innocent. But, the conspirators themselves say she knew nothing about the planned assassinations. The plan at first was simply to kidnap Lincoln. They were meeting with her son, John Surratt, not her. It was a boarding house, not simply a residence, so I don't think she was necessarily privy to all that was going on. I think it's a case of reasonable doubt, not necessarily actual innocence. Her boardinghouse was in Maryland, a slave state with lots of Confederate sympathizers, and people typically would harbor deserters, spies and the like. Besides, men didn't usually include women in their plans in that era. I think she was a passive participant, if anything. Her guilt was probably about the same level as Dr. Mudd's- the guy who set Booth's leg. He was sentenced to prison, and was later pardoned.
@@nazikiller0164 History is often strange. The famous Bixby letter from Lincoln for instance. Lincoln most likely didn't write it and I think Mrs Bixby was a southern sympathizer. I think one son fought for the south and 1-2 were deserters. "beguile" was the key word that one of Lincolns cabinet members used in several letters while Lincoln never did in any other letter
Today, Mary Surratt’s boarding house is a Chop Suey Chinese restaurant & the area where the gallows once stood, is a government employees tennis court. No respect for history.
It was only 160 years ago. Typical yank. The bridge at the bottom of my street is 850 years old. American history is so dire you want to keep a set of gallows. My Grandfather has underpants with more history than America.
@@RealAaron317 You people must not have paid attention in history class! You’re missing the point. This is about Lincoln’s history and how it came to be, not glorifying traitors. You are probably the same kind of people that were FOR tearing down Confederate statues & monuments huh? Changing history DOES NOT mean it DIDN’T happen, wise up.
I always thought it was morbidly humorous how they walked her to the gallows but were still polite enough to provide her shade with an umbrella. Because this was the customary way to treat women in the Victorian Era.
@@tacfoley4443Because the term “Victorian Era” is used in American history to describe cultural and social parallels with Britain during that time. Victorian Era culture and customs had great impact globally. And in the US, American society emulated this in architecture, literature, fashion, and social norms.
@tacfoley4443 British folks still call the regency or the Georgian era Napoleanic though. Just because he was their enemy don't take away from what a titan of history he was. We will never see another man like that again.
Why was this so incorrect historically? Mary Surratt was famously inconsolable at the execution. Two of the conspirators did not have their necks broken.
The part where they cover her eyes with the umbrella to shield it from the sun... Reminds me of George Orwell's writing The hanging. He pointed out that as he watched a man be walked to his death he actually stepped around a puddle. Something so interesting about the desire to avoid getting wet even though he would be dead in a few minutes. It is a reminder of the humanity of the condemned, whatever they did. I don't support the death penalty .
What is your notion of "humanity", that it should preserve a malicious murderer from forfeiting the equivalent of what he /she wantonly took from another? If you don't subscribe to retributive justice, how do you propose appropriate consequences for intentional harms?
RE. the death penalty - an interesting point is this, given that it can take many years before a condemned prisoner (in US prisons) finally goes to the death chamber, it is actually cheaper for the state to imprison a murderer for 20 years than to keep him on death row; this is because they are getting state assistance with legal fees for appeals etc. Not only that, but there is always the risk of "getting the wrong man". The risk of mistakes was a strong argument that led to the rightful abolition of this barbarism in my own country - the UK.
I recall playing the 9 hole golf course at Night....(really, glow-balls!) at Fort McNair in late '90s with the American singles Golf group! ASGA-DC. :)
Many legal and historical experts agree that Mary Surratt was not afforded a fair trial and that her execution was more about appeasing public anger than delivering true justice. Modern legal standards, emphasizing due process and the presumption of innocence, would likely have led to a different outcome.
Mary Surratt was Innocent, she just happened to own the Inn and tavern where the conspiractors met. Ive studied this since the 1980s and lived in Southern Maryland. St. Mary's County for a number of yrs so i know it to be fact of her innocence.
You don't know it for a fact. Ot wasn't the strongest case, and today she might have been found not guilty, but you don't know she was innocent. Two of her co conspirators said she was in on it. There was certainly evidence. Beyond a reasonable doubt? Maybe not.
@@robertthomas1286 The Civil War was effectively over when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, the treasonous pro-slavery insurrectionists had already lost their bid to continue slavery.
😢From what little I know about this, Mary Surratt didn't know what John Wilks Booth's real intentions were. She ran a boarding house that served the customers. John Wilks Booth was an actor that probably used his acting skills that could've charmed a dog off a meat truck. Tensions were quite high after the assignation of Abraham Lincoln and those doing the investigation concerning it, shot first and asked questions later. Mary Surratt was wrongly accused and wrongly executed.
The thing is this: The military had zero authority to do any of this. They should have been tried in civilian court by civilian judges and civilian juries.
That's interesting. I wonder why they went down that road? Also what did they hope to gain by killing Lincoln? The war was over,revenge maybe? The Prez should have had a bodyguard that way his life and these peoples lives may have been spared.
To record the moment and since it was public, it wasn't unheard of for a notable execution to have photographers to later publish the photos in the newspapers or on a postcard as a souvenir. Also, since it was a public execution kids were allowed to watch to give them an example of what not to do and as a lesson for them
Public executions were just that . Public. Spectacles. People made a day of it, like those who went on a picnic to watch men slaughter each other at 1st Bull Run. Don't make the mistake of ascribing modern morals and sensibilities to history. Life was VERY different, people saw the world differently and were not offended by the same things we are, nowadays.
To document history, for newspapers, for the official congressional record etc... it's actually quite a famous photograph. I mean I guess it could seem voyeuristic but you do need to document it for the record.
George Orwell, witnessing an execution in Burma (Myanmar), records how a condemned man, with just seconds to live, sought to avoid a puddle on the way to the scaffold...
It was interesting that Mary's eyes were shielded from the sun. None of the men received such kindness. Very probably because the public were watching.
If you REALLY wish to find out what the executed criminals were thinking after their deaths, read the story of the rich man and Lazarus in the Gospels....
@ Nope…. Just as true as what’s written in the book of Revelation. What’s written in Revelation has already happened, with a helluva lot more to come--emphasis on HELL!
She is reported as saying "Don't let me fall!" as she was escorted to the scaffold and in danger of stumbling. An odd request, given the ultimate purpose of the event.
The leaders of the trucker convoy headed to Ottawa with the aim of overthrowing the government. The ring leaders were charged with mischief, and inciting others to commit mischief. They should have been charged with treason and sedition.
Googled it. The idea that gallows have 13 steps is primarily a symbolic association with the number 13 being considered unlucky, and is not based on any historical fact about the construction of gallows; most gallows designs do not actually have a set number of steps leading to the hanging platform, and the number 13 is often used in fiction or popular culture to add to the ominous imagery of an execution scene.
@@rjwintl However, slavery in the United States was so evil it couldn't be duplicated by Hitler and the Nazis with their holocaust, no matter how diligently they applied themselves! Yet Germany was very severely punished for its Nazism, while the USA still continues the evils of slavery, using the 13th amendment as an excuse!!
I think Mary Surratt got railroaded and was executed for no good reason. Her son who was guilty was a coward who refused to own up to his crimes, letting his mother die in his place.
Neden ağır tahrik indirimi uygulanmamış. Yendiginiz insanların arasına karışıp hiçbir şey olmamış gibi hiçbir güvenlik önlemi almadan tiyatroya giderseniz bu aşağılama ve tahrik olarak görülür.
Maybe Kamala Harris can pay Oprah Winfrey another $2,500,000 to produce a memorial special on the life of Mary Surratt? And, let’s pay another ten big ones to have Beyoncé make a cameo appearance in it.
Never does “Hollywood” get tired of obviously expecting everyone to reject capital punishment. Yes, this is historical but at the same time I can’t help but feel the enormous weight of their judgment. They are so eff-ing transparent!
I spent four months as an exchange student in the United States back in 1990. One day we were discussing capital punishment in class and I got asked what my wish for a last meal and my final words would be if my number was up on Death Row. The teacher (a nice lady apart from the 'buy bull' sticking up her arse) didn't want to hear my last words after I ordered my last meal 🤣😂😆...
I still believe that Mary Suratt was incent of the charges against her. The key witness said she told one of her workers to geothermal shoting irons ready " for Mr Booth. She was raised as a lady of good breading, which to me means she would not use slang like a common person. She would have used the formal names of guns or firearms. She was taught to speak using proper language.
@@CraigFThompson In his first term he DID commit more than one traitorous act. He stole government papers, some of which were top secret relating to US nuclear weapons, and refused to return them to the National Archives. (Firstly he said he didn't have them, then admitted he had them, but said that that was OK because they belonged to him. They absolutely did not.) Then he told us all that he shared them with a number of unauthorized persons. That was a breach of the Espionage Act. In 1953 two other American citizens, husband and wife Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were also found guilty of passing nuclear secrets to unauthorised persons under the Espionage Act. They were executed in the electric chair. The second traitorous act was Sedition on 6th January 2021, when he tried to prevent the legal certification of the election.
Mary Surrant's guilt was in doubt and President Johnson received many requests for a lesser sentence. He refused saying "She kept the nest where the egg was hatched".
Marry cried constantly and loudly before her execution. There was no peaceful acceptance. Movie makers need to get the facts straight.
This had a lot of lost cause feeling to it to be honest. The score made them out to be sympathetic. A shame, it was shot pretty well and the actors did a good job but yeah, incredibly inaccurate.
@@Kravis30thOH Agreed…Redford made a movie, not history.
Yes she thought she was going to be pardoned and actually fainted on the scaffold. The film has the men stressed and frightened but the strong independent woman who don't need no man was stoic and brave. 'The Message' 😂
@@danawinsor1380 Yeah, her real last words were, "Don't let me fall!"
I feel the same about the film made of Albert Pierrepoint, the UK executioner. The film made him out to be a meek, uncertain, shy man. Those of us that knew him can say categorically that nothing could be further from the truth.
Notable little detail: Mary Surratt's noose has fewer twists in it than the traditional thirteen. According to a documentary I asked my grandparents to record (and I subsequently wore the tape out), the hangman tied hers last the night before, he was tired, his fingers hurt, and he was certain that she'd have her sentence commuted to imprisonment. So he stopped after a handful of twists.
I believe that the rope is still in a museum.
And that what happened 😮
@Fat12219
If you're expressing incredulity toward the assumption that she'd have been imprisoned rather than executed, she was the first woman executed by the federal government. So there was no precedent up to that point, and it was a fair assumption to make.
The rope is on display in the Ford’s Theater Museum in DC.
The black bonnet she wore is in a small museum near the site of Andersonville national park/cemetery.
Ahh the good old days. When High Treason was a Crime and was punished accordingly.
According 😢
Now you get elected
@@Fat12219accordingly. He is correct
i can think of a few high ranking government candidates from here in the UK!!!
@notwocdivad well they lost office, remember.
The actor who played Lewis Powell looks very much like the conspirator in real life.
That's movie "magic" for ya!
Es verdad. Parecido extraordinario
oh look it’s Daryl
Did he come back as a walker?
I thought so.
After he was a boondock saint
With a long drop, the knot usually goes to the side so that the force breaks neck sideway. But from what I can see in this scene, (and the original photographs of the event) the knot is at the back of the head, which risks the rope will tighten around the throat and muscles, so not breaking the spine. A much more length and painful death.
Yes, according to reports a couple of the men died hard.
@@stevenhodgson834 Long drop hanging in the UK wasn't introduced until the 1870s so this may well be the case. There are reports here of people's friends pulling on their legs so that they would die more quickly especially if the person was of slim build.
@@Dav1Gv Grim business. 😬
@@Dav1Gv Its where 'pulling my leg' comes from...
There is video somewhere of some of the Nuremberg executions, where it could be seen that Woods was still placing the knot at the back of the neck. He did have a reputation for sadism. Those US jurisdictions which still use hanging are still doing it this way and still using the traditional slipknot, whereas the British changed to a metal eyelet many decades before abolition.
This a a superb film that every movie buff should see and own. Top quality.
It did suck being a traitor back in those days, now they say, forget about it. 🤔
Mary's son John escaped to Europe. When he came back several years later, he wasn't even prosecuted because by that time, no one cared anymore.
Now they make you president.
Ralking about Lincoln?
Now they can become president
In the UK you lie your way to Prime Minister.
Dr. Charles Xavier was also present.
Yes, he could have saved them. Patrick Stewart would of.
Quite a few errors in fact, several already mentioned. One quite important one was that Mary Surratt was extremely sickly and somewhat infirm by the time of the execution and she could not climb the steps unaided and it took some time to get her up onto the scaffold!
Gee I guess it sucks being a traitor, doesn't it?
Wouldn't know. These days traitors get the cases against them dropped or pardoned (or will be).
Now traitors become president..
@@GenXerInMexicoYou mean the current traitor President (whose family took millions in payment from foreign agents) about to be replaced by a patriot.
@@GenXerInMexico Biden?
@@GenXerInMexico And give the terrorists 85 billion dollars worth of our military equipment and let millions and millions of illegals and drug smugglers over our border.
The whole thing was just sad, why these people did that. They hung 8 people, shot one and the others got away with it.
Same thing at Nuremberg
It's terrible to glance over and see the coffins..
They had coffins on hand for Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu.
Mrs. Surratt didn't deserve to hang. It's very doubtful she knew much, if anything, about the conspiracy. Her son was a different story- he escaped to Europe and avoided punishment.
Not at all. The more they investigated her over the years, they discovered that she was the mastermind.
@philsmgb4393 😆😅🤣😂
Why do you say she was ignorant of what was transpiring in her own home? Is that your opinion, or do you have historical references?
@Clonetrooper1139 I'm not saying she's completely innocent. But, the conspirators themselves say she knew nothing about the planned assassinations. The plan at first was simply to kidnap Lincoln. They were meeting with her son, John Surratt, not her. It was a boarding house, not simply a residence, so I don't think she was necessarily privy to all that was going on. I think it's a case of reasonable doubt, not necessarily actual innocence. Her boardinghouse was in Maryland, a slave state with lots of Confederate sympathizers, and people typically would harbor deserters, spies and the like. Besides, men didn't usually include women in their plans in that era. I think she was a passive participant, if anything. Her guilt was probably about the same level as Dr. Mudd's- the guy who set Booth's leg. He was sentenced to prison, and was later pardoned.
@@nazikiller0164 History is often strange. The famous Bixby letter from Lincoln for instance. Lincoln most likely didn't write it and I think Mrs Bixby was a southern sympathizer. I think one son fought for the south and 1-2 were deserters. "beguile" was the key word that one of Lincolns cabinet members used in several letters while Lincoln never did in any other letter
Today, Mary Surratt’s boarding house is a Chop Suey Chinese restaurant & the area where the gallows once stood, is a government employees tennis court. No respect for history.
Nations rarely memorialize traitors.
It was only 160 years ago. Typical yank. The bridge at the bottom of my street is 850 years old.
American history is so dire you want to keep a set of gallows.
My Grandfather has underpants with more history than America.
Why would we be celebrating history of traitors???
yep because dems dont want you being educated they want you brain washed to their bidding
@@RealAaron317 You people must not have paid attention in history class! You’re missing the point. This is about Lincoln’s history and how it came to be, not glorifying traitors. You are probably the same kind of people that were FOR tearing down Confederate statues & monuments huh? Changing history DOES NOT mean it DIDN’T happen, wise up.
why did they remove their shoes?
They wanted to tie their legs so as to ensure they didn’t kick and writhe in pin as they died. The drop could have easily knocked someone’s shoe off.
so they didnt fill them with body fluids
I always thought it was morbidly humorous how they walked her to the gallows but were still polite enough to provide her shade with an umbrella. Because this was the customary way to treat women in the Victorian Era.
This took place in the USA, so why do you call it the Victorian era?
@@tacfoley4443Because the term “Victorian Era” is used in American history to describe cultural and social parallels with Britain during that time. Victorian Era culture and customs had great impact globally. And in the US, American society emulated this in architecture, literature, fashion, and social norms.
@@CryptoX-kr3wu Thank you. It has always seem to be at odds with the general dislike of things British that pervades much of American society today.
@tacfoley4443 British folks still call the regency or the Georgian era Napoleanic though. Just because he was their enemy don't take away from what a titan of history he was. We will never see another man like that again.
The end of the line. Literally.
I do want to ask each of them:
Was it worth it?
and
Why is this a shock? What did you think was going to happen?
Well, people probably do things not expecting to be caught, and inevitably a lot don't give two thoughts as to possible consequences.
Who was the Lady ???
Mary Surratt, a 42-45 year old boarding house owner in Washington, D.C.
Watch the movie The Conspirator, it is was a good telling of the story.
A traitor
The Confederate sympathizer who provided support to John Wilkes Booth (Lincoln assassin) and his associates.
She ran the boarding hpuse where the plot to kill Lincoln was planned so say she was a co-conspirator others that she was innocent
Why was this so incorrect historically? Mary Surratt was famously inconsolable at the execution. Two of the conspirators did not have their necks broken.
Daryl killed hundreds of zombies but could not cheat the hangman!
Suspended sentence….. literally.
Downfall
Are you going to do a full review on this movie
Why did they take the boots off? I assume that was customary of the time, but why?
What’s Daryl Dixon doing there?!
thats the curse of playing a role too well
The part where they cover her eyes with the umbrella to shield it from the sun... Reminds me of George Orwell's writing The hanging. He pointed out that as he watched a man be walked to his death he actually stepped around a puddle. Something so interesting about the desire to avoid getting wet even though he would be dead in a few minutes. It is a reminder of the humanity of the condemned, whatever they did. I don't support the death penalty .
What is your notion of "humanity", that it should preserve a malicious murderer from forfeiting the equivalent of what he /she wantonly took from another? If you don't subscribe to retributive justice, how do you propose appropriate consequences for intentional harms?
Its okay to think that people who have no remorse and no conscience about ending other people's lives have more right to stay alive then their victims
I do.
I agree. There are too many stories of wrongful convictions overturned 10, 20 even 30 years after a crime to allow the death penalty.
RE. the death penalty - an interesting point is this, given that it can take many years before a condemned prisoner (in US prisons) finally goes to the death chamber, it is actually cheaper for the state to imprison a murderer for 20 years than to keep him on death row; this is because they are getting state assistance with legal fees for appeals etc. Not only that, but there is always the risk of "getting the wrong man". The risk of mistakes was a strong argument that led to the rightful abolition of this barbarism in my own country - the UK.
So Claire Underwood is a time traveler?
Daryl Dixon was innocent
That's right. It was Merle who done it.
old federal city prison execution site later became Ft McNair in SW DC
I recall playing the 9 hole golf course at Night....(really, glow-balls!) at Fort McNair in late '90s with the American singles Golf group! ASGA-DC. :)
The late General Colin Powell wrote in his autobiography that the ghost of Mary Surratt was reported to haunt Fort McNair.
Many legal and historical experts agree that Mary Surratt was not afforded a fair trial and that her execution was more about appeasing public anger than delivering true justice. Modern legal standards, emphasizing due process and the presumption of innocence, would likely have led to a different outcome.
100%
What??? How did a movie with Linda Hamilton, Norman Rescue AND James Idaho y slip past me????
Today, as a condemned criminal (and in my opinon, a traitor, too) you even can become POTUS.
Idiot
Just like money laundering through Ukraine and dealing with the Chinese or having your son on the board of directors at Burisma. Ironic isnt it.
Spot on. Nothing lower than a TRAITOR.
good news is your opinion means zip - so suck it up buttercup - better days ahead.
How Did Biden get elected it is still a mystery to me
Darryl Dixon was part of the Lincoln assassination plot? That's why he never dies in The Walking Dead.
Mary Surratt was Innocent, she just happened to own the Inn and tavern where the conspiractors met. Ive studied this since the 1980s and lived in Southern Maryland. St. Mary's County for a number of yrs so i know it to be fact of her innocence.
You're a buffoon. She knew very well what was going on in her inn.
You don't know it for a fact. Ot wasn't the strongest case, and today she might have been found not guilty, but you don't know she was innocent. Two of her co conspirators said she was in on it. There was certainly evidence.
Beyond a reasonable doubt? Maybe not.
@@DanBeech-ht7sw Yes. I have three adult sons, and I know what they're up to and they don't even live with me.
Yea, lost of people around in the 1980's that were there during the Lincoln assassination.
There was evidence to support she was guilty of her crimes
It's ironic that them climbing those steps is storing the energy that will kill them.
"She feathered the nest that hatched the egg". GUILTY.
Depends,Patriot or Traitor. Maybe it depends on your point of view.
You can be Patriotic towards a country. The confederacy wasn't a country.
More like which side you on.
@@robertthomas1286 The Civil War was effectively over when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, the treasonous pro-slavery insurrectionists had already lost their bid to continue slavery.
I won't even bother watching this mess when it's free on cable!
😢From what little I know about this, Mary Surratt didn't know what John Wilks Booth's real intentions were. She ran a boarding house that served the customers. John Wilks Booth was an actor that probably used his acting skills that could've charmed a dog off a meat truck. Tensions were quite high after the assignation of Abraham Lincoln and those doing the investigation concerning it, shot first and asked questions later. Mary Surratt was wrongly accused and wrongly executed.
PS. Mary's son was the guilty one, but because she didn't know his whereabouts, she ended up paying the penalty.
No depiction of the soldier being sick underneath the gallows. Also I thought the trap doors were propped shut by lengths of timber then removed.
Normally, but this was a different style gallows for some reason.
@@Bernie8330 No, there were poles that were knocked away.
No leg pullers under the trapdoors ?
Everything looks pretty correct
The thing is this: The military had zero authority to do any of this. They should have been tried in civilian court by civilian judges and civilian juries.
On the other hand the victim was a member of the military, the commander in chief, so his murder could be a military issue...
… they didn’t have the authority to kill the President dude. They lost all since of a judge
Same outcome.
Wrong their my guy
That's interesting. I wonder why they went down that road? Also what did they hope to gain by killing Lincoln? The war was over,revenge maybe? The Prez should have had a bodyguard that way his life and these peoples lives may have been spared.
Fancy assinating your president or stageing an insetretion. Who would have thought it. Greetings from Canada.
staging an insurrection.
Why the photographer? also, why were kids allowed to watch?
It's 1860s.....nothing else to do for kids
To record the moment and since it was public, it wasn't unheard of for a notable execution to have photographers to later publish the photos in the newspapers or on a postcard as a souvenir. Also, since it was a public execution kids were allowed to watch to give them an example of what not to do and as a lesson for them
Public executions were just that . Public.
Spectacles.
People made a day of it, like those who went on a picnic to watch men slaughter each other at 1st Bull Run.
Don't make the mistake of ascribing modern morals and sensibilities to history. Life was VERY different, people saw the world differently and were not offended by the same things we are, nowadays.
To document history, for newspapers, for the official congressional record etc... it's actually quite a famous photograph. I mean I guess it could seem voyeuristic but you do need to document it for the record.
The Kid was a part of the Union Army - A drummer
Belivuk and miljkovic?
Damn! I did t know the walking dead led us back this far. Daryl must be OLD! 1:18
Will daryl come back
The only traitors are those who are not true to their cause
How come none off them fought for the south gutless draft dodgers and surrat let his mother swing in his place
Her house was just before my big sis & new husbands 1st home. Clinton, Md
Why would Daryl be involved with such a crime?
What is this movie called?
'The conspirator'
From 2011
Staring Robert Redford
Running 1 hour 57 minutes
@@rolandweitbrecht3860 ; It was actually shown first in Toronto in 2010 and it's a mediocre film.
@@jstrahan2 Could YOU'VE done any better?!
@@CraigFThompson : Of course not. But I AM a viewer of films and that is my opinion.
@jstrahan2 well, ya yam what'cha yam....
George Orwell, witnessing an execution in Burma (Myanmar), records how a condemned man, with just seconds to live, sought to avoid a puddle on the way to the scaffold...
A lifetime of habit doesn't just disappear. Not to mention a desire to hang on to what dignity you have left.
Insurrection comes in many forms ? 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🙏
Read Manhunt, the best book on the assassins. Also, the memoires of Louis J Weichman. She was guilty of conspiracy in Lincoln's murder.
They made a mini series of Manhunt as well.
It was interesting that Mary's eyes were shielded from the sun. None of the men received such kindness. Very probably because the public were watching.
They also tied her skirt to preserve her modesty.
But did it hurt? And what were the executed criminals thinking about the day after?
Well, since they no longer existed, my guess is they weren’t thinking anything. To think, you need a functioning brain.
If you REALLY wish to find out what the executed criminals were thinking after their deaths, read the story of the rich man and Lazarus in the Gospels....
@@CraigFThompson Fiction.
@ Nope….
Just as true as what’s written in the book of Revelation. What’s written in Revelation has already happened, with a helluva lot more to come--emphasis on HELL!
What’s the point of the umbrella? They didn’t want her to be uncomfortable before her hanging? Cmon now!!!
She is reported as saying "Don't let me fall!" as she was escorted to the scaffold and in danger of stumbling. An odd request, given the ultimate purpose of the event.
Today she could be a Senator or Congresswoman
Execution site now hosts a Chuck E Cheese location.
Nope, a tennis court
isnt it great how people dont care about the past, i guess their to dumb to understand and the implications it has today..sad actually
@@RealAaron317 Nope, it’s a hemp rope discount warehouse.
Wonder what their last meals were...?
They weren't fed very well during their entire incarceration.
The nooses looked like the were not tight around the necks. It appears the opening of the nooses was too large.
What's the move called, please
It's in the fucking description! 🙄
The 'move' is called hanging.
And they get to keep ALL assets, pensions and health insurance
OMG are they really going to hang Daryl? :O Outrageous!
That's James McAvoy
Sedition was punishable by death… not anymore…
Was this film about Donald Trump and the Capitol riots ?
Maybe they could make a film about the Biden Crime Family selling influence to foreign businessmen for 20+ years and getting away with it by a pardon.
No! It is about Joe Biden and the pardon he gave to his son.
ESTÁ PELÍCULA NO LA HE VISTO.PARECE SER BUENA..LA PODÉIS PONER EN FRANCÉS O CASTELLANO NO LATINO.
They were Southerns supporting "their" country and way of life.
L. Powell had the bull neck - He jerked around for some time it is said . . .
Traduza para o Português.
I'm getting tired of my comments being deleted. None were vulgar, just expressing a different opinion.
Many times treason remains far worse than murder itself.
The leaders of the trucker convoy headed to Ottawa with the aim of overthrowing the government. The ring leaders were charged with mischief, and inciting others to commit mischief. They should have been charged with treason and sedition.
@@johnearle7776 Damn dude. You sure gulped down that propaganda.
@@SecNotSureSir No, you’re the one who’s misinformed and/or misanthropic.
Not anymore. Now it gets you elected POTUS.
And nothing of value was lost.
Redford didn't really make a historically accurate movie.
Why do gallows have thirteen steps?
The stairs in your house do, too.
Googled it.
The idea that gallows have 13 steps is primarily a symbolic association with the number 13 being considered unlucky, and is not based on any historical fact about the construction of gallows; most gallows designs do not actually have a set number of steps leading to the hanging platform, and the number 13 is often used in fiction or popular culture to add to the ominous imagery of an execution scene.
@@GBU61 There are generally 13 loops in the noose....
To bad they didn't have a Warren commission or CIA or FBI to run cover for them back then.
An awful lot of RAILROADING, at this point in time??🇬🇧😓✌️🙏
Jenny!
When her body was cut down it landed on its feet, bent forward at the waist, and fell forward. A soldier joked that she had taken a bow.
It’s hardly treason for supporting your defeated country.
There was no defeated country. The illegitimate "confederacy " was never a country. Defeated traitors, yes.
Why didn't they take action when it could have helped their war effort? Vengeance is not a good motive.
@@marymorris6897 Heroes. They fought for their country and freedom, history is always written by those who win.
The South is not a country.
Martyrs
America's always been a harsh and brutal society.
Not as brutal as Ancient Rome … remember crucifixion , lot worse than hanging
@@rjwintl However, slavery in the United States was so evil it couldn't be duplicated by Hitler and the Nazis with their holocaust, no matter how diligently they applied themselves!
Yet Germany was very severely punished for its Nazism, while the USA still continues the evils of slavery, using the 13th amendment as an excuse!!
Give me break. You want harsh and brutal, try; AFGHANISTAN, ALGERIA, ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN, BHUTAN, CAMBODIA, CHAD, CHINA, CONGO, CUBA, EGYPT, EL SALVADOR, GUATEMALA, HAITI, HONDURAS, INDONESIA, IRAN, IRAQ, ISRAEL, JORDAN, KAZAKHSTAN, LIBYA, MYANMAR, NIGERIA, NORTH KOREA, PAKISTAN, PHILIPPINES, RUSSIA, SAUDI ARABIA, SENEGAL, SYRIA, THAILAND, TUNISIA, TURKEY, UGANDA, UZBEKISTAN, VENEZUELA, YEMEN.
This video is best enjoyed with a rather strong coffee, no milk, no sugar.
A touch of brandy.
MAGA before there was MAGA
I think Mary Surratt got railroaded and was executed for no good reason. Her son who was guilty was a coward who refused to own up to his crimes, letting his mother die in his place.
Neden ağır tahrik indirimi uygulanmamış. Yendiginiz insanların arasına karışıp hiçbir şey olmamış gibi hiçbir güvenlik önlemi almadan tiyatroya giderseniz bu aşağılama ve tahrik olarak görülür.
Imagine if she was related to trump she would have been pardon or the government would have revoked her sentence.
Maybe Kamala Harris can pay Oprah Winfrey another $2,500,000 to produce a memorial special on the life of Mary Surratt? And, let’s pay another ten big ones to have Beyoncé make a cameo appearance in it.
This comment aged well with Biden pardoning his son.
it is tough I suspect to be this dull-witted and go through life ....
Never does “Hollywood” get tired of obviously expecting everyone to reject capital punishment. Yes, this is historical but at the same time I can’t help but feel the enormous weight of their judgment. They are so eff-ing transparent!
What you crying now for?
I spent four months as an exchange student in the United States back in 1990.
One day we were discussing capital punishment in class and I got asked what my wish for a last meal and my final words would be if my number was up on Death Row.
The teacher (a nice lady apart from the 'buy bull' sticking up her arse) didn't want to hear my last words after I ordered my last meal 🤣😂😆...
FJB and FKH and double FBO.
I still believe that Mary Suratt was incent of the charges against her. The key witness said she told one of her workers to geothermal shoting irons ready " for Mr Booth. She was raised as a lady of good breading, which to me means she would not use slang like a common person. She would have used the formal names of guns or firearms. She was taught to speak using proper language.
This is how we used to deal with traitors.
Now they get elected president.
😢
Twice...
@@lorddaver5729 Actually just once; in his first term, there weren't any traitorous acts; just moronic decisions.
@@CraigFThompson In his first term he DID commit more than one traitorous act. He stole government papers, some of which were top secret relating to US nuclear weapons, and refused to return them to the National Archives. (Firstly he said he didn't have them, then admitted he had them, but said that that was OK because they belonged to him. They absolutely did not.) Then he told us all that he shared them with a number of unauthorized persons. That was a breach of the Espionage Act. In 1953 two other American citizens, husband and wife Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were also found guilty of passing nuclear secrets to unauthorised persons under the Espionage Act. They were executed in the electric chair.
The second traitorous act was Sedition on 6th January 2021, when he tried to prevent the legal certification of the election.
Didn't accomplish a damn thing. Even Southetns were shocked.
That's what she gets for leaving Forest Gump...😆
Mary Surrant's guilt was in doubt and President Johnson received many requests for a lesser sentence. He refused saying "She kept the nest where the egg was hatched".
Are you sorry? Well, it's too late now.