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RallyPigeon t1_ivel6ht wrote

Wok & Roll has a lunch menu. You can eat Americanized Chinese food where the Lincoln assassination was planned!

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greengirl213 t1_ivg0zz3 wrote

This is such a DC 'fun fact'--I wrote a very long paper in high school about the Lincoln assassination and conspiracy and I remember going to karaoke with some friends at Wok & Roll and waiting outside for an Uber and seeing the plaque and shouting "OH MY GOD!!!! THIS IS THE SURRATT HOUSE????" Lmao.

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Alex3M3TI8 t1_ivk9vg6 wrote

Would recommend reading Sarah Vowell's Assassination Vacation, where she chronicles revisiting famous sites around the US where presidential assassinations occurred or were planned.

I reread it again recently after visiting where McKinley was shot in Buffalo and her takes on touring the morbid side of Washington DC and the surrounding areas are so funny and interesting.

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