Today I learned on Nostr: TIL the officer in charge of guarding Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theater left his post ...

TIL the officer in charge of guarding Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theater left his post to go drinking at the same bar where John Wilkes Booth was building up the courage to shoot the President.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/lincolns-missing-bodyguard-12932069/?no-ist
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