John Surratt's real parents?

[LincolnToddFan]

[Would abduction have been acceptable from the religious (Catholic) point of view in your opinion?]// quote

Eva, the short answer is NO. Depriving a person of their liberty via abduction is an assault/violation upon them. That is absolutely not only a sin, it's a crime.

Thanks MUCH Roger, for posting all that information. There are other various statements I've read in the many, many years I've been reading Lincoln assassination books.

Laurie, thank you for the information about Kate Larsen. Can I tell you all something? Two or three days ago before I came here and read the comments of Eva, Thomas Thorne, Roger, Herb and now the info from Ms. Larsen I was 100% convinced that Mrs. Surratt didn't know about the murder conspiracy. Now you all have planted the seed of doubt in my mind. After some thought, of course it is plausible for deeply religious people to commit the sin of blasphemy at the portal of death. Just consider the religiously devout Muslims of Sept 11, 2001. I have read the unbearable transcripts of the cockpit voice recorders on those doomed flights. They were literally singing praises to Allah as they killed their victims and ultimately themselves.

I just don't know.

ETA: Rick, I am one of the ones who struggle to see the actions of JWB as an act of war. The war was OVER, and he knew it.("Our Cause being lost..something drastic must be done") quoted from his diary. The murder of Abraham Lincoln by Booth was, in my mind, nothing more or less than an act of revenge. "The South is AVENGED!" was one the things some members of the audience at Ford's heard Booth say as he ran off the stage after the shooting.

Booth felt that AL was a usurper, unworthy of the office of the Presidency. He was personally offended by his "low, coarse humor" as I read him describe it somewhere. By killing the man, he acted as judge, jury and executioner to eliminate a person that he felt a very personal antipathy toward.