History Channel Lincoln Assassination

[MaddieM]

I just watched it. Laurie was in it....(jumps up and down with excitment)


Yeah, I need to get a life.

On a more serious point, it was very very good. Went into some good detail but seemed to have been a bit of a biased account of the conspirators. I would have liked to less focus on JWB and more on the others. There's never enough about Mary Surratt.

[Laurie Verge]

Have you seen The American Film Company's movie, The Conspirator, directed by Robert Redford yet? It is devoted entirely to Mary Surratt. It does take a middle-of-the-road approach as to the degree of her guilt. Of course, even though I'm director of her museum, I still understand why the military court found her guilty.

I just wish that Johnson had heeded the court's recommendation for leniency. Of course, life imprisonment at either New York (the first "assignment" for the conspirators) or Florida would probably have resulted in her death within months.

[MaddieM]

(09-13-2012 11:34 AM)Laurie Verge Wrote:  Have you seen The American Film Company's movie, The Conspirator, directed by Robert Redford yet? It is devoted entirely to Mary Surratt. It does take a middle-of-the-road approach as to the degree of her guilt. Of course, even though I'm director of her museum, I still understand why the military court found her guilty.

I just wish that Johnson had heeded the court's recommendation for leniency. Of course, life imprisonment at either New York (the first "assignment" for the conspirators) or Florida would probably have resulted in her death within months.

yes, it was ok, didn't blow me away. I wish they'd make a proper movie that shows more detail for all the conspiritors... they were human beings after all, in spite of what they did.

[Laurie Verge]

Several of us have spent years trying to convince the media that the story of the Lincoln assassination and the escape of Booth is an American epic in its own right. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Erik Jendresen has captured this with the Nat Geo production. It will be ironic if it took Bill O'Reilly's "history" to encourage that the story be told accurately. It might prove that one can really "make a silk purse out of a sow's ear."

[BettyO]

Trust me, ya'll! This one is going to be a "WOWZER!"