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He alerts General Grant and calls him back to Washington,
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issues emergency directives
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to police and military authorities,
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orders the National Detective Police to initiate a manhunt
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for the as-yet unknown assassin,
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and notifies Vice President Johnson that the president is dying.
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And, shortly before midnight,
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Chief Justice David Kellogg Cartter
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begins to hear eyewitness testimony of the crime.
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But the appointed stenographer cannot write fast enough.
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Is there anyone here who knows the practice of shorthand writing?
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Here! There's a boarder here who does.