The Lincoln Assassination Conspirator Who Became The 1st Woman Ever Hanged By The U.S. Government (Abe died on This Day in 1865)

John Wilkes Booth did not act alone; eight people were eventually indicted as co-conspirators in Lincoln's murder (who died on this day in 1865). One of them was a woman, Mary Surratt. Here to tell the story is Kate Clifford Larson, author of The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln.