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From: prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk (Paul Dormer)
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Subject: Re: Independence Day
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2024 12:50 +0100 (BST)
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In article <v67mvb$1hf$1@reader1.panix.com>, kfl@KeithLynch.net (Keith F.
Lynch) wrote:

> 
> An attempted assassination of a king seems an odd thing to celebrate.

It was much to do with celebrating the failure of a Catholic plot against
a Protestant monarch.
> 
> I'll be in Buffalo for the NASFiC.  I wonder if there's any memorial
> or museum to the presidential assassination that happened there.

Stephen Sondheim wrote a good song about it.