Looking for Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Cornell University, The White House, the Library of Congress, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Illinois ... they're all places that own original, authenticated copies of President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. But Gettysburg is not one of them.

Pennsylvania state Sen. Robert Casey recently petitioned the Library of Congress to borrow one of the library's two copies of the Gettysburg Address so that it can be temporarily displayed in Gettysburg in time for the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address on Dedication Day, November 19.

Citing fragility of the documents and their priceless nature, the Library of Congress declined, saying that a 1990 policy forbids the library from loaning out its irreplaceable documents, including the rough draft of Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address.

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