Major U.S. Documents Get Added Protection
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The original copies of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence were displayed Wednesday behind a new layer of glass designed to protect them against attack with a hammer or handgun.
The laminated glass was installed overnight at the National Archives in response to an attack last October by a man who struck the documents’ display case twice with a hammer, Susan Cooper, a spokeswoman for the archives, said.
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