Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt moments before their execution on the gallows at Fort McNair, Washington , July 7, 1865. They had been convicted of being part of the conspiracy which resulted in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865.

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