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Mar 14, 2008

D.C. Police Discover Booking Log From Lincoln Assasination

The Metropolitan Police Department has recovered a historic booking log that is one of the first written records of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Call Nicholas Cage, and alert the Masons! Could this be a real live Book of Secrets? From the Examiner:Local lore has it that in the 1960s or ’70s, someone found the book in a police trash bin with other discarded files. The book circulated among retired police officers for years,…

 
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