It\u2019s 1861. A plot has been uncovered to assassinate everyone\u2019s favorite top-hatted president, Abraham Lincoln. Who you gonna call?<\/p>\n
No, no the Ghostbusters. The answer, my friends, is Kate Warne<\/strong>:\u00a0trailblazer, spy, and all around Badass Bitch.<\/p>\n Not much is known about Kate Warne, which is probably a good thing since part of being a great spy is keeping your real identity a secret. But we do know this, in 1856 a 23-year-old, widowed Kate Warne walked into the Pinkerton Detective Agency and asked for a job.<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Allan Pinkerton, who had been running the successful Chicago-based detective agency since 1850, took one look at Warne, noticed that she was a lady, and said, \u201cYes, sure, you\u2019ll be a great secretary.\u201d<\/p>\n But a life full of fetching coffee and avoiding awkward interactions with her male coworkers was not what Warne wanted. She wanted to be a spy.<\/p>\n So Warne attempted to convince her boss of the many benefits of employing a lady spy. Among them: the ability to infiltrate and befriend the wives and girlfriends of their targets and the fact that no one would suspect her of being a spy since she had a vagina. Pinkerton either saw the value in Warne\u2019s proposition or was sick of her pestering him, because he said yes.<\/p>\n And that decision saved lives.<\/p>\n For as long as there have been presidents, there have been plots to kill presidents. And the president in Warne\u2019s time, Abraham Lincoln, was not immune to the tradition.<\/p>\n When rumors of a planned assassination against Lincoln reached Pinkerton\u2019s perked ears, he sent his best spy, Warne, to Baltimore to figure out the details. Born with superior acting and accent chops, Warne was able to successfully impersonate a Southerner and get all the hot goss\u2019 from the southern ladies whose husbands were suspects.<\/p>\n Through her sleuthing, Warne discovered that the assassination attempt was to take place in Baltimore when President Lincoln passed through on the train to his inauguration in Washington D.C. Ever the overachiever, Warne was not content to just pass on the intel and bounce. She wanted to finish what her A+ detective work had started.<\/p>\n Now, you may or may not remember this from your high school history class, but Abraham Lincoln was super tall. So tall, in fact, that he basically looked like a cartoon character, what with his enormous body and easily recognizable stove-top hat.<\/p>\nOf All the Detective Agencies in All the World, Kate Warne Walked into This One<\/h3>\n
Kate Warne and The Good Morning Baltimore Plot<\/h3>\n
Kate Warne: Hiding in Plain Sight<\/h3>\n