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Into History.

com. It's January 30th, 1835, inside a paint shop in Washington, D.C. during the final years of Andrew Jackson's presidency.

The store's owner, Richard Lawrence, paces back and forth across the creaking floor.

Brushes hang on the wall and the shop is stocked with wooden barrels full of paint, but Lawrence

hasn't worked in weeks.

Instead he's preoccupied himself with a different task developing a plan to kill the president.

Visibly agitated, Lawrence stops pacing.

He picks up a book and tries reading to calm his mind, but it's no use.

He's waited long enough.

He slams the book shut, stands up, and declares aloud, I'll be damned if I don't do it.

He pockets two single shot brass pistols he loaded carefully days earlier

and takes to the Misty Cobblestone streets of D.C.

Lawrence heads straight for the Capitol Building, where he finds a large crowd feeling into the

rotunda.

South Carolina Congressman Warren R Davis has recently died, and all of Washington is attending

the funeral service.

Among the mourners, Lawrence spots the person he's looking for.

The nation's once formidable but now ailing President Andrew Jackson,

who walks with a cane and leans heavily on the arm of his Treasury

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