Lincoln’s Plan to Visit Jerusalem

A little know fact:

The night that Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theater, some of the last words he was heard to say to his wife: “We will visit the Holy Land and see those places hallowed by the footsteps of the Savior.  There is no place I so much desire to see as Jerusalem.”

Source: 10 Little-Known Stories Of Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

 

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