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Monday Afternoon at the Movies - "THE CONSPIRATOR"

This historical drama is directed by Robert Redford and tells the story of Mary Surratt (Robin Wright), the only female conspirator charged in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Mary owned the boardinghouse where John Wilkes Booth (Toby Kebbell) and others planned their crime.  Lincoln assassination scholar Thomas Reed Turner stated that, of the eight people accused of  plotting to kill the President, the case against Surratt remains “the most controversial … at that time and since”

 - 2010 – Color – 123 minutes – PG-13.

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