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To: DogByte6RER
Legend says that the hand Hickok was holding at the time of his death was two pair – black aces and black eights. The hand would forever be known as the "dead man’s hand."

I thought it was a full house of aces and eights. Ok, time to check snopes.com...

5.56mm

4 posted on 07/21/2007 10:04:52 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: M Kehoe
Snopes says the fifth card was unknown.

5.56mm

10 posted on 07/21/2007 10:14:07 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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