Ep.38 – America's First Female Detective & the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln
When Kate Warne joined the Pinkerton Detective Agency, she didn't know she would soon be assigned to protect the greatest American president from assassination.
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Kate Warne became America's first female detective, working with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, just before the country fell into civil war. Shortly after, she would be part of the one of the agency's most important assignments: protecting president-elect Lincoln from an assassination plot while en route to his inauguration.
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Sources
- Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Edward Steers
- The Hour of Peril : the secret plot to murder Lincoln before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-unsuccessful-plot-to-kill-abraham-lincoln-2013956/
- https://explorethearchive.com/kate-warne-first-female-detective
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