Surratt House on TV

[richard petersen]

(11-15-2020 07:28 PM)wpbinzel Wrote:  

(11-13-2020 04:14 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(11-13-2020 02:39 PM)wpbinzel Wrote:  I would have to watch the program again more closely to see if there others.

Bill, maybe I missed something, but I thought the show made it sound like Mary and Anna were living at Surratt House at the time of the assassination. I missed it if they clearly told the audience that Mary and Anna were living at the boardinghouse in Washington when Booth shot the President.

Roger, I have not watched the program again, but I believe your observation is correct. I do not recall much of a discussion of the H Street boardinghouse, or anything more that a fleeting reference that John M. Lloyd was residing in the Surrattsville house at the time of the assassination. At some point this week, I will watch it again. I understand that the Travel Channel wanted to focus on what they could portray as sensational, but that does not give them license to ignore or rewrite history. (One would think that if Anna Surratt was going to haunt a home, it would be the boarding house, which is what got her mother hanged. It still stands in WDC and is a Chinese restaurant, called -- and you can't make this stuff up -- the Wok and Roll.)

After a visit to Ford's theater and the Petersen House, I ate at the Wok and Roll. My thoughts were that I was sitting in the house where so much happened; the plot, Mary's arrest, etc. Would definetly recommend the experience.