Could John Have Spared Mary

[J. Beckert]

Good question, Laurie. I think Mary would still be in quite a jam due to Weichmann and Lloyd's testimony. Her close involvement with Booth on the very day that the assassination occurred would be hard for her to side step. I was leaning toward a life sentence for her if Jr. was caught, but her involvement on the 14th. was poor timing on her part. Having Powell show up at her home made things worse for her. I think she may have still hung. I think Jr. would have hung with the rest of them. The other conspirators who gave statements would surely have put Jr. very deep in the same hole they were in.