With Malice Toward None

The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition    

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Fifty-eight years after the event, Grace Bedell responded to a request to retell the story of her childhood encounter with Abraham Lincoln, which took place in 1861 in Westfield, New York, during the president-elects train trip to Washington. At age sixty-nine, she still had vivid memories of Lincoln seeking her out in the crowd, taking her by the hand, and kissing her on the cheek.

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Fifty-eight years after the event, Grace Bedell responded to a request to retell the story of her childhood encounter with Abraham Lincoln, which took place in 1861 in Westfield, New York, during the president-elects train trip to Washington. At age sixty-nine, she still had vivid memories of Lincoln seeking her out in the crowd, taking her by the hand, and kissing her on the cheek.