There are all sorts of rumors about how the term 420 came to be associated with lighting up a joint, but according to the myth-busting website Snopes.com, it was born in the 1970s at San Rafael High School in California, where about a dozen students gathered each day at 4:20 p.m. to smoke pot.
Mary Surratt was arrested as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Louis Weichmann moved into Mary Surrattâs boardinghouse on November 1, 1864. On December 23, 1864, Dr. Samuel Mudd introduced John Surratt, Jr. to John Wilkes Booth. Booth recruited John Jr. into his conspiracy to kidnap Abraham Lincoln.
Depositions Can Be Ordeal as Well as a Protection. MONTPELIER, Vt., March 7â For Susan Sweetser, being kidnapped and raped in December 1980 was only the beginning of her ordeal. By the time her case was resolved last fall and her attacker convicted, she had been through two trials, two guilty verdicts and two appeals.