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The '''Baltimore Plot''' was an alleged conspiracy in late February 1861 to assassinate [[President-elect]] [[Abraham Lincoln]] ''en route'' to his [[inauguration]]. [[Allan Pinkerton]], founder of the [[Pinkerton National Detective Agency]], played a key role by managing Lincoln's security throughout the journey. Though scholars debate whether or not the threat was real, clearly Lincoln and his advisors believed that there was a threat and took actions(contracted; show full)f the conspiracy are identified. There actually was an NYPD officer, [[John Alexander Kennedy]], who claimed to have been the one who uncovered the Baltimore Plot; but, unlike Powell's movie character, he was not actually on scene. Moreover, in real life, Kennedy was the [[New York City Police Commissioner|Superintendent]] of the entire force. In the film, he is depicted as a mere [[detective sergeant]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2010}}

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"The Death Trap" , an episode of the 1966–1967 television series ''[[The Time Tunnel]]'', includes the 1861 Baltimore plot, although it also depicts a brief difficulty with the time machine that caused the showing of (an enactment of) the 1865 shooting of Lincoln at Ford's Theatre. The episode depicts a bomb being used in the 1861 Baltimore plot, and has the attempt being plotted by Abolitionists who hope to plunge the nation into a war in which slavery will be ended; the (contracted; show full){{U.S. cities in the Civil War}}
[[Category:Assassination attempts]]
[[Category:Causes of war|American Civil War, Origins of the]]
[[Category:History of Maryland]]
[[Category:History of the United States (1849–1865)]]
[[Category:Lincoln conspirators]]

[[fr:Complot de Baltimore]]