Obama inauguration: President to lay hand on Lincoln Bible

18 January 2013 Last updated at 06:01 ET Help

When US President Obama is sworn into office for the second time, he will use the same Bible that President Abraham Lincoln used during his inauguration in 1861.

A Bible owned by the civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr, will also be used at the inauguration.

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