The Day Lincoln Pulled an Almanac Out of His Hat and Shot The Moon
<p>I have a wise-guy friend who sent me an article about Abraham Lincoln and the “famous <em>Armstrong</em> murder trial” in the spring of 1858.</p>
<p>I thought it was a joke, but no, it was a real case.</p>
<p>The accused was a man named William “Duff” Armstrong. Not one of my relatives, I hasten to add, at least as far as I know.</p>
<p>Lincoln was a lawyer before becoming president. He was practicing law in Springfield, Illinois, at the time of the murder. The Duff Armstrong trial is his most famous case. I’d never heard of it.</p>
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