This is an I-Heart podcast.

This is Lee Habib, and this is our American stories, the show where America is the star

and the American people. And we love to

tell stories about history, one of our favorite subjects, Abraham Lincoln. We've told many great

stories about Lincoln. Go to Our American Stories.com and hit that search bar and type in the words

Abraham Lincoln and enjoy.

John Wilkes Booth did not act alone.

Eight people were eventually indicted as co-conspirators in Lincoln's murder.

One of them was a woman, Mary Surrott.

Here to tell the story is Kate Clifford Larson, author of The Assassin's Accomplice, Mary Surratt. Here to tell the story is Kate Clifford Larson, author of The Assassins Accomplice, Mary Sarat

and The Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln.

Let's take a listen.

After I finished my Harriet Tubman book, which came out in late 2003, I started, you know, looking around for another

project. And every day I Google Harriet Tubman's name. I've done that since 2000 and I still do it

today. And one day, when I googled, this event popped up and it was from the Surratt Museum in Clinton, Maryland.

And they were hosting a tour, a bus tour, to the eastern shore of Maryland to see sites related to Harriet Tubman.

And I'm like, the Surratt Museum, what is that?

So I went to their website, and it was, the Surratt Museum, what is that? So I went to their website and it was, the Surat Museum is Mary Surratt's former home in Clinton, Maryland.

Used to be called Sarattsville.

And it's a house museum and it has a research center.

And I started reading this story about Mary Surratt, and I was shocked because I had gotten my

Ph.D. in American history, and I virtually knew nothing about Mary Surratt, and her involvement

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