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Typescript written and signed by Jim Bishop, author of The Day Lincoln was Shot. The postscript describes what happened to the people who played a part in the day Lincoln was assassinated.
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- Assassination
- Civil War
- Civil War, 1861 1865
- History
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809 1865
- United States
- Washington (D.C.)
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