MANY Historic Documents Missing From National Archives


	MANY Historic Documents Missing From National Archives

BartendingBear

7-5-2009 9:42 PM

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BartendingBear says:

An understandably difficult task to oversee, it still is a crime to have it happen.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6fb145c5-71dc-44f2-b5c2-fe8a46e0d251/34C16E86-E217-4CB9-A9CE-71A107DF220F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ARCHIVES_MISSING_HISTORY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ARCHIVES_MISSING_HISTORY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" style="font-size: 11px;">hosted.ap.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ARCHIVES_MISSING_HISTORY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">National Archives visitors know they'll find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building's magnificent rotunda in Washington. But they won't find the patent file for the Wright Brothers' Flying Machine or the maps for the first atomic bomb missions anywhere in the Archives inventory.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ARCHIVES_MISSING_HISTORY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Many historical items the Archives once possessed are missing, including:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ARCHIVES_MISSING_HISTORY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT"><P class="ap-story-p">-Civil War telegrams from Abraham Lincoln.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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