August 03, 2025
Working for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the mid-19th century, Kate Warne was the first female detective in the U.S. While undercover as a Southern sympathizer, she uncovered a plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln in 1861. When Lincoln needed to travel to Washington for his inauguration, Warne escorted him through Baltimore by disguising him as her ill brother.
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9 Infamous Assassins and the World Leaders They Dispatched
The murder of a president, prime minister, king, or other world leader can resonate throughout a country. Sometimes the assassination of a leader is so shocking and profound that it triggers what psychologists call flashbulb memory in a country’s citizens. Many will remember forever where they were
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