Surratt House Servants

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I cannot elaborate any further on Susan Jackson other than she was a newly freed person who had been hired as live-in help at the boardinghouse just a few weeks before the assassination.

Kate Larson of this forum gives a good description of who Jackson was and how her mistaken testimony implicated Mrs. Surratt and son John. See Assassin's Accomplice, pages 98-100. The consensus among historians is that Jackson confused Weichmann, Holohan, and police officer McDevitt as being Booth, Surratt, and another man.

Coupled with being new to the boardinghouse and then the confusion of the assassination, it is easy to see how Susan Jackson could be mistaken in her identifications.