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Nevilledog

(51,005 posts) Fri Feb 12, 2021, 12:12 PM Feb 2021

Contents of pockets of Abraham Lincoln (born today 1809) at moment of assassination

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Contents of pockets of Abraham Lincoln (born today 1809) at moment of assassination, 1865, Ford’s Theatre—not shown to public for 111 years:
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1. One of the more poignant scenes in Ken Burns' Civil War

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Fri Feb 12, 2021, 12:18 PM

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When they discussed the immediate aftermath of the assasisnation as he took his last breaths. They go over what was in his pockets, a wallet with a Confederate 5 dollar bill in it, some newspaper clippings, a pocket knife-such mundane and ordinary things.

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