Kate Clifford Larson
Historian and author who appears as the episode's expert commentator, discussing Mary Surratt and the historical context of the Lincoln assassination.
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Feb 20, 2026 • 43min
The Plot
Kate Clifford Larson, historian and author of The Assassin’s Accomplice, offers a concise portrait of Mary Surratt. The conversation traces Surratt’s boarding house as a Confederate hub, John Wilkes Booth’s shift from kidnap plot to assassination, the conspirators’ preparations and April 14 violence, and the controversial military trial and execution that followed.
