John Surratt publicly admitted in 1870 in a speech that he'd been part of the original plan to kidnap Lincoln.
Many have believed that the government prosecuted Mary Surratt as a co-conspirator in the plot to kidnap or kill President Abraham Lincoln in order to persuade John Surratt to leave Canada and turn himself in to prosecutors.
John Surratt Jr., in his Canada jacket, about 1866
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