"Mary Surratt: Innocent or Guilty?" - Presentation by William Binzel - 4/12/2022

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About the Video:
William P. Binzel presents: "Innocent or Guilty? Mary Surratt and the Lincoln Assassination." He gave the presentation via Zoom on April 12, 2022, to the Civil War Round Table of the District of Columbia. Introduction by Kurt DeSoto, President of the CWRTDC. Questions and answers follow the presentation.
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About the Topic:
Mary Surratt was convicted as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and was hanged, becoming the first woman ever to be executed by the federal government. A controversy over it remains to this day. Who was Mary Surratt? Why was she charged as a conspirator? Was she innocent or guilty? What was her role? William Binzel covered these topics during his talk via Zoom on Tuesday, April 12, 2022.
About the Speaker:
William P. Binzel is a native of southwestern Ohio who has resided in the Washington, DC area for more than forty years. A retired attorney, he spent twelve years on the staff of the U.S. House of Representatives, eleven years in the financial services sector with MasterCard International, and ten years as general counsel and executive vice president of an educational nonprofit foundation focused on financial literacy.
Mr. Binzel's undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin is in U.S. History. A life-long student of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, and the Lincoln assassination, Mr. Binzel is Vice President of both our Round Table and of the Surratt Society (an organization that supports research into Lincoln’s death and related topics). He is a contributor of articles to The Surratt Courier; a docent at the Surratt House Museum in Clinton, MD; and a narrator of the Surratt Society’s extensive tour of the twelve-day escape route of John Wilkes Booth from Ford’s Theatre to the Garrett’s farm in Caroline County, VA.
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Thanks to CWRTDC members Paul Mazzuca, for managing the Zoom meeting, and John Ciccone for video and audio post-production.