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Lock of Lincoln's hair and bloodied telegram up for auction

by Associated Press
| August 28, 2020 8:03 AM

This is one macabre auction: A lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair, wrapped in a bloodstained telegram about his 1865 assassination, is up for sale.

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