Where was John Surratt on April 14, 1865 ?

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Gene is working under the same premise as the military court in determining that it was all one big conspiracy from kidnapping to murder and, since Mrs. Surratt was doing Booth's bidding up to within hours of the assassination, she was guilty of that conspiracy. On the other hand, her defenders would say that doing his bidding did not mean that she knew what he intended to finally do.

That's always been a sticking point with me - did she know that the plan had changed, and could she have been able to stop it? If one takes the laws of conspiracy as they existed with the military court proceedings in 1865, it makes no difference (IMO). As I have ended some of my talks on the subject -- In for one, in for all.