It’s all bunk, National Park Service Ranger Michael Kelly told me during a recent visit. “It’s not a fact.”
There are 57 steps at the Lincoln Memorial; Lincoln was 56 was he was killed by an assassin’s bullet.
There’s no evidence that the sculpture had any intention to fashion his hands in sign language.
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“Jefferson is looking at Hamilton, and Hamilton is looking back,” he said.
Kelly pointed across the Tidal Basin toward the Washington’s towering obelisk.
“Standing between them is the monument to President Washington, who tried to bridge their differences, who tried to unify them in common purpose, but failed,” Kelly said. “It’s not a secret, but no one really connects it.”
