Shot Down Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 1/1/2013
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

The cache is not at the given co-ordinates but it's not that far away.

Please assume N51 34. and W000 25.

On placement the cache contained,

A logbook.
A pencil.
A pencil sharpener.
A FTF badge.
2 Trackables.

The co-ordinates you have calculated, if correct, will take you to my favourite flower.
Look about you. The cache lies close by, in the corner.

What follows is a puzzle.
The true cache co-ordinates can be extracted by correctly solving it.

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the USA, was shot on April 14th 1865 by
Wilkes-Booth, a well-known actor, who was also a Confederate spy, as he watched
the play 'Our American Cousin' at Ford's Theatre.
He died at 7:22am the following morning.

President Kennedy, known as JFK, was assassinated as the presidential cavalcade
made its way through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas on November 22nd 1963.
He was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald who was in turn shot by Jack Ruby
two days later before a trial could take place.

Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little, died February 21st 1965 shortly after being taken to Columbia
Presbyterian Hospital having been shot multiple times at Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom as he
prepared to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
Talmadge Hayer,Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson were identified as the gunmen.
All three were members of the Nation of Islam of which Malcom X was a former member.

Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee on April 4th 1968 as
he stood on the 2nd floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel.
At just gone 6pm he was shot and killed by James Earl Ray, an escaped convict.

Senator Robert F Kennedy, JFK's brother, was fatally wounded in the lobby of the Ambassador
Hotel in Los Angeles, on June 5th 1968. He survived for 26 hours after being shot by
Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian Arab who cited Kennedy's spoken promise of support for Israel air strikes as his motive.

Indira Gandhi, 3rd Prime Minister of India, was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards
in the garden of her New Delhi residence on October 31st 1984.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ol gur jnyy.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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