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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
- There are a total of 10 general entries.
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Innocent or Guilty?
| Mary Surratt was hanged for her role in the conspiracy that killed Abraham Lincoln. What was the most damning evidence against her? | Innocent or Guilty?
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Some of the conspirators, including Booth, had meetings at her home. The conspirators met at Mrs. Surratt's home. Logic dictated that she must have been involved in the plot (or at least had knowledge of what was going on). Her son, John, was involved, but escaped retribution. Mary was hanged.
| The Rosenbergs were executed as spies. A principal witness against them was David Greenglass. Who was he? | Innocent or Guilty?
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Ethel's brother. Ethel's younger brother was a key witness against the Rosenbergs. There is evidence to suggest that Julius may have been a spy, but the evidence against Ethel is far weaker. She may simply have had knowledge of what was going on. Be that as it may, she was executed with her husband when a presidential pardon was not forthcoming.
| Secretary Stanton was suspected by some of participating in the conspiracy to kill Abraham Lincoln. What was his relationship with Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson? | Innocent or Guilty?
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Johnson wanted to delay Reconstruction; Stanton wanted to hasten it. Johnson, a southerner (Tennessee)and Stanton did not see eye-to-eye. Johnson's dismissal of Stanton was a precipitating factor in the impeachment movement against Johnson.
| Bruno Hauptmann swore that he was innocent of kidnapping the Lindbergh baby. Damaging evidence was provided at trial by Charles Lindbergh. What was it? | Innocent or Guilty?
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Lindbergh claimed to recognize his voice. "Lucky Lindy", the legend, testified that he recognized Hauptmann's voice. This identification was based on only a few words. Hauptmann always claimed innocence - but incriminating evidence was found in his possession. His attempts to explain it away were unavailing.
| The role of Dr. Samuel Mudd in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln is uncertain. What happened to him? | Innocent or Guilty?
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He was imprisoned. Dr. Mudd admitted only to attending to Booth's injured leg. It is unclear how well he knew Booth and whether it's feasible to believe that he wouldn't have recognized Booth on the night in question.
| Meriwether Lewis died under mysterious circumstances. Although many felt that it was murder, it was ruled a suicide. Why? | Innocent or Guilty?
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All of these (Recurring problems with depression, Financial problems, The opinion of close acquaintances that he was capable of suicide). After the great pioneering expedition to the West, things went downhill for Lewis.
| There has always been some doubt as to whether Lizzie Borden killed her parents. What happenede to Lizzie? | Innocent or Guilty?
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Acquitted. She went to trial and was acquitted.
Isidore Fisch. Fisch was the person named by Bruno Hauptmann as being involved in the Lindbergh kidnapping. Druitt was an unstable fellow who committed suicide at the time of the Whitechapel murders. Kosminski was a prime
suspect. Tumblety, an American, was also a prime suspect.
| A woman claiming to be "Anastasia" occupied headlines during parts of the twentieth century. What name did she go by? | Innocent or Guilty?
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Anna Anderson. If she wasn't Anastasia (and it seems that she was not), was she perpetrating a fraud or was she having profound mental problems? Morrow was Lindbergh's wife, Hathaway was Shakespeare's wife. Sage was "the lady in red" who helped nail Dillinger.
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