Very little is known about the real Frederick Aiken. No photographs of him exist.
The Surratt boarding house still stands in Washington, DC's Chinatown.
The American Film Company's first film. Their mission is to make historically accurate films about America's past.
Mary Surratt's house is now a museum in what was then Surrattsville, Maryland. The U.S. Post Office renamed the town Robeysville, due to the notoriety of the Surratt name. In 1879, Robeysville was renamed Clinton.
Large portions of the film's dialogue are directly from the trial transcripts.