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The Conspirator Film Analysis
The Conspirator is a movie made in 2010 directed by Robert Redford. The whole point of making this movie was to bring history to life. Through other movies made by Hollywood, the truth of the story is very small. In this movie, they went back and went as historically correct to the time after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.

After the assassination of President Lincoln, men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill Lincoln and the vice president and the secretary of state. Lawyer Mr. Aiken agrees to defend the Ms. Mary Surratt against his will from another lawyer. Ms. Surratt owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met to plan their crimes. Mr. Aiken sees halfway through the movie that Mary may be innocent

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