Very appropriate words

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I'm new to the forum although i met you both last year at the Surratt Conference. I just wanted to add/bring up the fact that Powell swore to Mary's innocence while imprisoned. I have always been curious as to why. Guilt for showing up at her home and therefore casting greater suspicion on her or just a natural inclination to defend the seeming defenseless widow in place of her coward son? Or, possibly, she was innocent...? I tend to think she knew that something was afoot. Booth manipulated everyone for his own purposes and ends, and i don't believe surratt was any different.