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What happened to the original casket?
04-20-2014, 05:29 PM
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What happened to the original casket?
According to a documentary by the History Channel, when the Lincoln tomb/memorial was rebuilt in 1887, it was discovered that the sarcophagus was too narrow for the original casket to fit. Lincoln's body was placed in a new, narrower casket that would fit in the sarcophagus. What happened to the original casket? "They" wouldn't have trashed it. Where is it?

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