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>> if you're found guilty, you could hang. >> i am a southerner and a devoted mother, but i am no assassin. >> reporter: and in the long-ago capitol of the confed rascy, it's opened an old debate. if this had happened only a few years later, it would have been a different story. in short, was mary railroaded? >> there were a lot of marys and a lot of families like hers in the sense that all across kentucky, but also across ohio, illinois, indiana. you'd see that families would divide on what was the right thing to do. >> fire! >> reporter: at the time, four brutal years of civil war had just e...

>> by suggesting i trade my son for myself? >> reporter: still, her lawyer was a strong supporter of the confed rascy, and she had a much more robust defense than the movie implies. >> there were lots of defense witnesses. they brought in priests, who testified that she was a good christian moral woman and therefore she could not be a part of murder and things of that nature. >> reporter: she was, however, an easy target. a proud southerner when that alone was widely seen as treasonous, a woman at a time women were held particularly accountable for the successor failure of their households. >>...

tripoli today. a government official says one of the blasts hit a compound belonging to libyan leader moammar gadhafi. nato claiming responsibility, at least one of the attacks which it said struck a vehicle in a storage area. the airstrikes happened during the daylight which has been rare for nato strikes in libya. president obama arrived back in the u.s. within the last hour. he wrapped up a six-day trip to europe today in poland where he did meet with the prime minister, also met with veterans of solidarity labor movement, credited with helping end communism in poland. the presi...